This week we celebrated Halloween which was so much fun.\u00a0 Big sister Sirena dressed as Mickey Mouse and had a blast trick-or-treating.\u00a0 Holidays are so much fun with her at this age, she seems to really understand a lot about what is going on!\u00a0 We kept imagining Halloween next year when we’ll have a 6 month old and a 3.5 year old…wow!\u00a0 Ideas for a fun family costume welcome (extra points if Lola’s included!)<\/p>\n
Belly shot!<\/h3>\n
This week started out with both good and bad things.\u00a0 The good was our prenatal appointment on 11\/6 when we met with midwife Allison and everything was looking “perfect” which we couldn’t be happier about!\u00a0 And the whooshwhooshwhoosh <\/em>of the heartbeat might be the sweetest sound in the world, I can’t get enough of hearing it.\u00a0 We also got news that our first trimester genetics screening came back looking great which is a big relief.\u00a0 So far baby is doing great!\u00a0 So the bad thing is my lower back pain which has progressively gotten worse.\u00a0 Kevin, Sirena and I did some yard work one day and I had to stop in the middle because I could sense that I had been pushing myself too hard.\u00a0 Throughout the night and when I got up the next morning the pain was pretty intense.\u00a0 The midwife suggested I go see a chiropractor (I’m going to try going to yoga with my sister once a week first) and to of course take it easy on myself and not push myself so hard.\u00a0 At the moment this is so frustrating because anyone who knows me knows I always have to keep busy so it’s going to be a major adjustment in my way of thinking and going about my day to day activities.<\/p>\n This week I got the opportunity to go on a girls’ weekend with some of the Edmonds girls (Dorothy, Judith, and Sarah) to support my niece Katelyn in her band competition in Las Vegas.\u00a0 We had a nice low-key weekend filled with catching up, eating yummy food, and enjoying each other’s company.\u00a0 Sirena enjoyed Sirena took the baby belly love to the next level by putting her stuffed animal “Georgie Bear” inside her shirt and rubbing her belly and singing “Rock-a-bye Baby” to her belly.\u00a0 Adorable!\u00a0 She finished by having the baby “be born” and pulling it out from the bottom of her shirt.\u00a0 If only it were that easy, Sirena…<\/p>\n![\"16wks\"](\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/16wks.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWeek 17: Baby’s the size of an onion<\/h3>\n
wearing out<\/del> spending time with Nani, Bopa, TT, and Jessie all weekend which was a special treat for everyone involved.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n