33 Week Update!

49 days to go!
Here's your 33 week update:

Baby's size: This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark.

Baby's development: She's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and her skeleton is hardening. The bones in her skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for her to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as her brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

Best of the week: Celebrating Christmas with my family and seeing their excitement about meeting Bella! Working on the nursery with my mom!  Also, a Christmas Eve surprise of diapers, wipes, and gift cards from a Secret Santa!

Worst of the week: My left food is permanently swollen! :)

Side Effects: Moving around has becoming more uncomfortable. And I definitely can't clean the entire house in 3 hours anymore...I have to take frequent breaks.

Cravings: Taco Bell Mexican Pizza! Mac and Cheese! Cheese Fries!

Anticipating: Spending this weekend with extended family!

Here are this week's goals:

Continue writing letters to Bella in my pregnancy journal -- I wrote several last week!
Buy the baby book I want from Books A Million
Continue filling out my pregnancy album
Read our new parent devotional
Finish reading pregnancy book (I did finally catch up to my current week) and BabyWise
Find curtains for the nursery
Finalize photographer!
Start gather items that I need to pack for the hospital
Buy items still needed for nursery

Items Accomplished:

Baby Laundry
Shower thank you cards
Confirmed hospital registration
Check over registries and make adjustments
Put together all baby furniture
Organize baby closet

33 Week Picture: