Pregnancy Highlights: November 13, 2010.  Merry Christmas.  It’s winter out now in MN!

Fun fact for those who didn’t read my Twitter/Facebook update from this morning:
On the way to work this morning, I saw 11 cars in the ditch!  That was not including:
a.  the other 2 cars on the side of the road that weren’t actually in the ditch
b.  the 2 cars and tow truck that were presumably attempting to remove the other cars from the ditch
c.  the car & semi that spun out and hit the guard rail/each other (or the police car that was there)
d.  the bus stuck/stopped in the middle of 2 lanes that was causing mass chaos as those were the only 2 (of 4) lanes that had been adequately plowed.

Fun fact #2:
10 of those 11 cars were between my exit and the 35e/694 interchange.  One was on my entrance ramp and one was just past the funny other entrance ramp (the old one that is currently not in use).

How Far Along: 28 weeks:  Third trimester!  (David doesn’t want to think about that, so don’t remind him!)

Size of Baby:  Baby is a Chinese cabbage; what a helpful description.  She’s about 15 inches long and weighs over 2 pounds.  Actually, our baby weighs 2 lbs, 10 oz.  We had an ultrasound with Heidi this evening & Baby’s measurements are all right around 28 weeks, 2 days.  Except her head circumference; Baby is extra-smart so her head is a little bigger!  It measures at 29 weeks.  Basically she’s on track size-wise to be born on time or a couple days early…now hopefully she’ll have been listening.

Total Weight Gain/Loss:  Oh shoot, I never weighed myself this week.  That’s unfortunate…  I would assume about the same, maybe +1 pound?

Maternity Clothes:  Still holding out.  I tried on the dress I got at Target with my mom back in September and it fits now (it was a little big then), and oh my goodness, I looked super-pregnant as soon as I put it on!

Gender:  Baby Girl!  [Confirmed again; she is definitely a little girl.]

Movement:  She didn’t want me to go to work yesterday, putting up a little fight when I got off the couch to get ready to leave.  Sorry Baby, I didn’t really want to go either, but I didn’t really have a choice!  She got excited during the ultrasound; since there was a thing pushing on her, she thought she should push it back or kick and punch at it.

Sleep:  It’s getting less comfortable again.  Ugh.

Symptoms:  No change.

What I Miss:  Being able to pick things up that are on the ground…and be able to get back up again!

Cravings:  Nothing; certain things sound good when people mention them, but no crazy cravings.

Best Moment of the Week:  Ultrasound!  (We also got to see Tim & Heidi’s little boy who’s 1…he’s so adorable!)  I’ll put some baby pictures up later.

Random Comments Received:  (Yes, I’m adding my own section.)

Random customer [after yelling questions at me from across the store while I was on the phone]:  Are you expecting?
Random (different) customer’s boyfriend [the girl was wearing a headband and earmuffs!]:  Are you pregnant?

Um, yes?!?  I was tempted to say, “No, I just decided to gain 15 pounds.  On my stomach.”

What I’m Looking Forward To:  My actual last floorset tomorrow night.  Yes, I know I said that last time, but given a choice of working open-close tomorrow after not having a day off since last Monday or doing floorset (in at 7 pm) and having the next day off, I chose the latter.  I also have a doctor’s appointment this week (on my brother’s birthday!).  This is only 3 weeks since my last appointment, but my doctor’s taking Thanksgiving week off (really, that’s the week after next?!), then she has a meeting on Wednesday, which is my normal appointment day, so it was pushed up to Tuesday instead!  Then I’ll start the every-other-week appointments.  This time I ‘get’ to have my glucose tolerance test…we’ll see how Baby likes super-sugary Kool-Aid-ish-ness.