Let's talk details!

How far along: 28 weeks/1 day

Total weight gain: 21 pounds

Maternity clothes: Skirts! Dresses! Yoga pants! Anything loose and comfortable.

Main symptoms: One pregnancy-related symptom that I have been experiencing is that my gums have been very tender (bleed when I brush). So I went to the dentist this week and got a good thorough cleaning! They have been much better when I brush lately! I go back next week for a follow-up visit with the dentist.

Exercise: Prenatal yoga last Sunday! Then long walk with Papa Bean and Ruben the Dog!

Best moment: Earlier today, Papa Bean got to use the fetal monitor on my belly to hear Lima Bean's heartbeat! It was so funny. The nurse let him hold the wand and showed him how to hold it on my belly. He found her strong heartbeat on his first try!

Movement: Lots of it! She kicks. She twitches. She sticks her butt up so that one side of my belly sticks up and I look lopsided. Also, I think she also gets the hiccups sometimes!

Food cravings: A new gelato/sorbet store opened up across the street from us and we have become regulars!

Gender: GIRL! Unless the sono technician is wrong... I might ask her at our next sonogram to check again! FYI, our next sonogram is in two weeks, on June 25.

Labor signs: None.

Belly button in or out? Still in, but getting very very very shallow! Eeek! Stay in. Stay in. Stay in.

What I miss: Running. Being skinny!

What I am looking forward to: Moving into our new home! And, my baby shower!

Weekly wisdom: Exercise balls are supposed to be great for labor (bring your own to the hospital) and rocking the baby. So I just ordered one!

Milestones: So many! Since my last update, we have closed on selling our condo. We have closed on buying our house. We have bought a car! I have registered. I have ordered the crib & glider rocker chair. And we attended our birth class at Sibley Memorial Hospital last weekend! Plus, we had a doctor's appointment today during which I took the glucose test to see if I have gestational diabetes. More on the registry and birth class to come in future posts... And I find out the results of the glucose test on Monday!

Third Trimester is here! We are now homeowners! Plus, we just went bowling at the White House ...

Life has not slowed down for us! If you look at the ticker at the top of this page, you will see that today marks 28 weeks! That is the start of my THIRD and FINAL trimester! Only 12 weeks, or 3 months, to go! Unless Lima Bean is early... But if she is anything like her momma, she'll be nice and tardy.

She is still about the size of an eggplant, so no fruit pictures this week. Stay tuned for a squash pic in the coming weeks, to be followed by honeydew and, finally, watermelon. Or, as you'll see later in this post, bowling balls.

She is not as big as a bowling ball, it turns out. I used a 6-pound ball, the lightest one they had. Lima Bean right now weighs just 2 1/2 pounds. But in just two weeks, she'll be 3 pounds! Eeek!

She has eyebrows, eyelashes and taste buds! So she can taste all the sweet things I've been eating... She'll have a sweet tooth for sure! And this is kind of a bummer, this week she can feel pain the same way that a full term baby would. So pain starts before birth. Who knew?

Besides all these monumental things going on inside my belly... Today was a big day for us as a family because today we officially purchased our first HOUSE! Our first home. And, yes, we moved to the 'burbs. After today's closing, we are now officially Maryland residents. Sort of. We don't actually move in until July 6th. But it is now officially our house!

And if that wasn't enough... We had a fabulous evening bowling a couple games at the Truman Bowling Alley, a two-lane alley located in the basement of the Old Executive Office Building. This is the building next to the White House where many White House staff members work. It's located on the same grounds as the White House and is surrounded by the same fence.

I would note, however, that there is ANOTHER one-lane bowling alley in the basement of the actual White House. But, according to the White House Museum, former President Nixon bowled in the Old Executive Office Building alley where we were tonight! So did Lady Bird Johnson! Some more history on the lanes here.

Here are some photos from our game!