le bump / 21 weeks

growing every day and kick-boxing like crazy.

progress & countdown: 21 weeks down & 132 days to go!

baby size: a carrot.

food & drink: loving a morning decaf french roast with grass-fed ghee and mct oil and collagen. after that, it’s a mix of eggs and peanut butter toast and all the fruit and giant salads or piles of seasonal veg. i am also loving spicy pickled carrots and pomegranate (not together). of course, this week will also bring eggs benedict on christmas morning and ben’s amazing lasagna for dinner PLUS all the baking.

bump stuff: it is taking shape and growing daily. plus, moving and grooving now with a very active kick-boxer inside.

highs: advent snuggles while watching movies and the kids getting to see the bump move.

lows: not much to report! things are good and i am enjoying it.

new developments: head to toe, baby is 11 inches long and weighs roughly 13 ounces. flutters have moved to full-fledged kicks and punches and barrel-rolls. baby’s eyebrows have grown in but eyes are still shut and irises lack pigment.

meaningful moments & hormones & feelings: ridley giving albert (ahem, my belly) “raspberries” whenever i leave the room.

superficial stuff: the bump is growing DAILY and i am now wondering if i will get the linea nigra or if the belly button will “pop”. i didn’t have the line darkening with elinor but did with ridley… nothing yet. and, i feel like my belly button never quite pops in a fun way. we’ll see, there’s still time. pregnancy is so weird.

looking forward to: this week’s festivities… our last christmas as a family of four!