Week 24

Today I am 24 weeks along.  I went to the doctor this week and everything looks good.  Other than my having low levels of iron and needing to also eat more protein... everything else looked good.  The heart rate was about 153 and she was able to find it right away for once!  I guess the bigger the baby gets, the harder it is for her to hide from the doppler every time.  I get to do the lovely glucose test next time I go in December at 28 weeks, and then, after 28 weeks, I start going to the doctor every 2 weeks!  I think it's crazy how fast it's going. 
I have started registries now at both Target and Babies R Us, but I just started them online.  Target makes it hard, because there are so many things I want that are available online only.  But I know I need to go in the store and find some stuff that's there, because not all people will want to order gifts online.  We chose some bedding finally, too!  I was pretty set on having pink and black in the nursery, but I just didn't find any pink bedding that I really liked.  So instead, I came across some that's lavender and I really like it, so lavender and black it is!  Hopefully I'll like how it looks when we get it too.  It's on the registry at Target, so we'll see when someone wants to get it. 
I'm starting to think about how preparing for maternity leave at work will go... I'm a little nervous about having to write sub plans for several weeks.  In teaching, lessons have to change so much from day to day depending on what the kids are ready for, so trying to plan for several weeks will be hard!  At least we have someone planned for my long-term sub already.  She'll be great, so hopefully the timing of delivery all works out the way I hope.  I guess I'll just plan to be done teaching on March 4th and hope that Baby can wait that extra day!  That's about 14 more weeks of teaching left for the year. 
Little Miss Roly Poly Baby moves so much more now!  At least it gives me a nice little reason to smile in the middle of teaching on a difficult day.  When I'm singing loudly in the car though, she stops moving usually.  So either she's mesmerized by my voice (highly uunlikely) or she's concentrating on covering her ears and thinking about how embarrassing I am already (much more likely)!  Hopefully she can learn to self-soothe so I don't have to try singing to her too much... that may be the least soothing sound ever.  Oh who am I kidding, I'll sing to her anyway :)