7 Months

A bit late, but I am now seven months pregnant.  Less than two months to go before our little one's due date, who has a name now, which will be Owen Gabriel Hampshire.  I have been feeling well for the most part, besides some back pain here and there and heartburn.  Nothing fun about your throat being on fire at 3 in the morning.  He is still moving like crazy and now that his space is getting a bit cramped, his movements feel so much stronger and sometimes even hurt me!  No general time during the day that he moves because this little guy is constantly moving and I wonder if he ever sleeps.  Right after Mady goes to bed is when he will really crank it up and start having a dance party.  It's like he knows that he now has our attention all to himself!

We spent Thanksgiving down in Port Arthur with our family, which was so nice.  We'll be spending Christmas up here, so that was our last trip down there for a while.  Mady always has such a fun time with everyone and the older she gets, the more fun she has.  The weekend after Thanksgiving I was in a wedding for one of my best friends from high school.  They don't make maternity bridesmaid dresses so I had to get a dress several sizes too big so that it would fit around my belly but then had to bring everything else in, haha.  But in the end it fit, and the wedding was beautiful!!

This past Monday, Nick had surgery on his back.  It went really well, and now he is recovering.  He's very limited in what he can do right now and it will be a gradual process before he's back to normal.  His mom came in to help us for a few days which was really helpful.

We took Mady's paci away a couple of weeks ago, and that has been her hardest transition.  We thought she was doing pretty well, but almost a week ago she started having a really hard time going to bed.  Now she is screaming to go potty when we put her down, even though she just went five minutes ago, and she won't go to bed until we take her.  She's also waking up three or four times in the night to go potty.  It's starting to wear on us but we're praying it's just a phase.

I won't lie, this past week has been a bit hard on this pregnant one, but we will get through it.  The Christmas season has started and we have so much to be thankful for.  During those times when I start feeling at my wit's end I turn to God.  He has a great way of changing my perspective and bringing peace over any situation.  This is also the first year Mady has really understood and started having fun with our Christmas activities so that has been fun to watch.  Looking forward to the next few weeks of celebrating Christmas!