Baby #2: Weeks 26, 27, 28, & 29!

Yep, I know, I'm a whole month behind, but I refuse to give up ;) Here are weeks 26-29 of my pregnancy with….

Dayton Lee Coats

Week 26

Baby Changes: The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. He's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he's born and takes that first gulp of air. And he's continuing to put on baby fat. He now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel. If you're having a boy, his testicles are beginning to descend into his scrotum — a trip that will take about two to three days.

Best moment this week: Lots of good moments this week: 1) I came home from my internship this week and Casey had painted the nursery!! YAY! 2) Going to Rachel's baby shower this week and seeing her open up cute little boy presents:) 3) Going to Jill's shower for baby Julia from Ethiopia! 4) Starting my weekly women's Bible Study from Beth Moore over James!

Gender: It's a boy!

Movement: This boy is a little kicker for sure.

Food cravings: I crave caffeine like a crazy person.

What I am looking forward to: ordering the crib!

Symptoms: relentless back pain. :(

Week 27

Baby Changes: This week, your baby weighs almost 2 pounds (like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14 1/2 inches long with her legs extended. She's sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing her eyes, and perhaps even sucking her fingers. With more brain tissue developing, your baby's brain is very active now. While her lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning — with a lot of medical help — if she were to be born now. Chalk up any tiny rhythmic movements you may be feeling to a case of baby hiccups, which may be common from now on. Each episode usually lasts only a few moments, and they don't bother her, so just relax and enjoy the tickle.

Best moment this week: Several good moments this week again… :) 1) Plano Balloon Festival with Sawyer & Casey! 2) Laura's bridal shower with my mom and friends! 3) Getting fabric for the glider & ottoman with my mom, Sawyer, Ginni, & Mathis :)

Gender: Boy :)

Movement: I'm growing a soccer player or a boxer in my belly.

Food cravings: Starbucks, Dr Pepper, McDonalds iced mochas…chocolate ;)

What I am looking forward to: we ordered the crib and are waiting to get it in the mail!!

Symptoms: back pain to the max.

Week 28

Baby Changes: By this week, your baby weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels. She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes. With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through your womb. She's also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world.

Best moment this week: I got a prenatal massage from my friend Kristen!! It was amazing and really helped with the back pain ;) Casey preached, and we also got to see Mathis dedicated at church.

Gender: Boy! We officially decided on the name DAYTON LEE COATS ;)

Movement: Dayton is a mover! I think he likes sitting on my bladder, too. ;)

Food cravings: caffeine and chocolate

What I am looking forward to: putting the crib together!!

Symptoms: acid reflux is hitting an all-time high…TUMS are still by my bed and still having some back pain.

Week 29

Baby Changes: Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. To meet his increasing nutritional demands, you'll need plenty of protein, vitamins C, folic acid, and iron. And because his bones are soaking up lots of calcium, be sure to drink your milk (or find another good source of calcium, such as cheese, yogurt, or enriched orange juice). This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in your baby's hardening skeleton each day.

Best moment this week: Casey put the crib together!! YAY! We also went away with Casey's fam for the weekend for our 5th annual cabin trip in Oklahoma - we always have a fun time:) On Monday Casey took the day off and we cleaned out the garage and part of Dayton's closet…still a lot more to go in there, though! BUT while cleaning out the garage I found our engagement video that I had lost 5 1/2 years ago!!! We watched it and I cried. :)  I also had my 28 week appt this week and heard Dayton's heart beat at 138 BPM and my BP was 100/60 (still good!). I gained 7 lbs this month, oops! Overall gained 17 lbs for the pregnancy now weighing 134 lbs. 

Gender: Boy! Dayton Lee

Movement: This baby boy wants to keep me awake at night and definitely lets me know when it's morning…I lay on my side and hug a pillow and can actually feel him kicking the pillow! Haha. 

Food cravings: like I've said many times before, Starbucks, Dr Pepper, etc. Wish I didn't!

What I am looking forward to: continuing to work on the nursery…we're slowly making progress :) Also, I am getting a fancy 3D/4D sonogram at La Bella Belly on Saturday - a gift from Casey's parents! YAY! :)

Symptoms: back pain & acid reflux

Here is my 29 week belly pic…I didn't take one for weeks 26-28. Oops!

:::Sawyer Sayings:::

This is just a little tidbit of information, but it's funny enough {to me anyway} to document!

Last night Sawyer was up on and off talking in her crib and at one point she just yelled out "Elmo!!!" While I was annoyed that she kept waking me up {it was around 3am} while I'm trying to sleep {and pregnancy sleep isn't so great anyway} Casey & I still laughed out loud becuase that's just too darn cute and funny.

I know for a fact one day I will miss the random ramblings of toddlers in my home. For now, I am going to embrace it, even though it often comes wtih a very severe sleep deficiency. ;)

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Another cute & funny thing that Sawyer does right now is get out a "boo" {book} and read it to us. She has a favorite book about Elmo & Grover that my mom got her and she points them out and says "Elmo" {she calls them both Elmo so right now I refer to Grover as the blue Elmo, haha} although the way she says Elmo actually sounds more like "Welmo" or "Welbo." Some people might even think she is saying "elbow," haha! She also points out "baby," "dog," or "meow" {for cat}. Other than pointing out the objects and words that she knows she just rambles on and "reads" to us. It's super cute and I love that she likes books, or in her words, "boos."

Balloon Fest!

Last weekend Casey & I decided to take Sawyer to the Plano Balloon Festival on Saturday night! Casey & I both grew up going to the balloon festivals that use to be held at Pascall Park in Mesquite. I loved it as a little girl and Casey enjoyed it too and we hadn't been to see hot air balloons since so we were pretty excited ourselves! We got there right at take off so many of my pictures are of the hot air balloons right in front of us! Sawyer definitely wondered what those "balls" were in the sky! Everything round is a ball to her :) At dusk the hot air balloons came back and did a "glow" on the ground which was really pretty! I don't ever remember seeing the balloons glow before although my mom says I did. Here are some pictures of our fun evening :)

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balloon Glow!

Now with Instagram...

  

 

  

It was a fun family day :)

Sawyer's Swim Lessons

I'm a couple of months behind on this post, but I wanted to make sure I got it in there because it was kind of significant in the life of Sawyer! 

Sawyer had swim lessons this summer in July and August! She was 15 and 16 months old and that's pretty much as young as you can do them (some people start at 6 months but that's more of teaching a baby how to float in water, not actual swimming). Sawyer learned how to jump into the water and go under, hold her breath, keep her eyes open, turn back around and grab the side of the pool! In case she is every near a pool or water and falls in, the point is to teach them to come back up and grab the side of whatever they just fell off of. Obviously I don't trust that she could save her own life…if anything, swim lessons were just fun for us to do and it got her use to the water! ;) She also learned the correct technique for swimming (on her stomach, chin up, and kicking her legs). We worked a tiny bit on floating on her back, but she was NOT a fan of that so we didn't do it much. We'll try more on that next summer. ;)

It was interesting because a couple of weeks after Sawyer finished her swimming lessons our church had baptism at a big water park in Canton (Splash Kingdom). Sawyer played in the kiddie-pool and would sometimes fall down and have her head under water and wouldn't be phased at all. Before swim lessons that would have freaked her out and she would have cried and wanted to be held. Instead, she would just stand back up and keep on going - playing and splashing and having a ball! It was so fun to see the growth she made in just a couple of months! She loves the water!

I was in the pool with Sawyer during all of her swim lessons (they were private lessons so it was just me, Sawyer, and the instructor). Casey got to come watch 2 times and he videoed and I took some pictures and videoed a couple of times as well. We also got her "graduation" under water picture from the instructor.

Here are some cute pictures of our little water bug! ;)

Here is Sawyer's underwater picture :) I love it!

She's a pro at keeping her eyes opening and holding her breath :)

Can't wait to get her back in the water next summer and see how she likes it! :)

:::17 Month Old Sawyer:::

My darling baby toddler is 17 months old! I thought the first year went by quickly, but really I think the second year is going by way faster! I wonder if Casey thinks so, too?

~Sawyer still loves playing outside! She doesn't care where she is at as long as it is outdoors. She loves running around, looking at new things, finding things that look like balls that she can throw, listening to dogs bark and calling out "dog!" She loves playing with the water hose or bowls of water. She enjoys her slide and her sand pit as well as being pulled around in her wagon!
~Sawyer is still really social and waves and says hi as long as she feels "safe" with momma. She doesn't go to people nearly as easy as she use to and she will sometimes cry when I leave her in the nursery or at someone's house (or even when I shut the door to use the bathroom). Haha!
~Sawyer weighed 21 pounds (putting her in the 11th percentile) at her 17 month visit and was 31.5 inches tall (57the percentile) and her head was 18 inches (32nd percentile) in circumference.
~She is still in size 3 diapers and wears mostly 12 month clothes, but more and more 18 month clothes are starting to fit her! She wears a size 4 or 5 shoe.
~The doctor suggested we start potty training Sawyer since she lets us know when she has gone "poo poo" or "tee tee." We got a little potty the other day and have started putting her on it after meals. On the first try she sat on it for a little while and then ran around playing for a few minutes (and I left her diaper and pants off because I knew she would need to go soon!) and she came right back to the potty and "tee teed" next to it on the tile. Haha! I thought that was pretty successful for the very first time since she knew to come back to the potty! I sat her on it while she was still going and hopefully she will catch on soon. :)
~She has 16 teeth now! (4 of them are still cutting through, but you can see them all).
~She eats a lot of different foods and right now green beans are her favorite (like her daddy!)
~Sawyer can identify/point to her nose, eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, hair, bow, toes, and shoes!
~Sawyer is a dancing queen! She will dance and dance and always hears music in stores that I don't even notice. It is quite funny! She will also dance if you just start singing with no music around.
~She will sit and open a book (sometimes upside down) and pretend to read, but of course it just sounds like gibberish :)
~Sawyer has hit a cuddly stage that Casey & I just LOVE! She gives hugs and is just plain sweet. Sometimes she'll just run up to you and throw her arms around your legs and squeeze. So sweet.
~She also gives her babies kisses and hugs. She tries to feed them goldfish and turns her sippy cup upside down to give them a drink like a bottle, haha.
~Sawyer is saying around 20 words now!

1. momma
2. dada
3. mimi
4. poppy
5. dog
6. Lucy
7. ball
8. uh-oh
9. bottle
10. whoa!
11. no
12. ow
13. meow
14. thank you
15. hi 
16. bye-bye
17. boo
18. Elmo
19. baby
20. outside
21. poopoo

What a smartie-pants she is :)

Here are some pictures of Sawyer during the last month while growing from 16 months to 17 months! I can tell some very noticeable changes in her this month. Crazy how 1 month can mean a whole lot for a little one.

Getting her tubes/ears checkup!

 Chick-fil-A playdate with Aubrey & Laura

Playing with Braden in her new table & chairs!

 Camping out with Whitley!

Tyler State Park :)

Sandbox fun!

having a conversation through the video monitor :)

Playdate with Mathis and Ginni!

                               

This girl loves the bath!

 

Mmmm…..frozen yogurt!

I so wished we had videoed this…we spun her round and round in the chair and then let her walk… HILARIOUS! This night was when she learned to run in circles and she still does it - so funny! 

                    

 How she slept one night, heehee...

 

She loves her babies...

 and she loves Elmo!!

 the girl cracks me up!

Watching a football game with Momma & Daddy!

 

Sawyer Grace, you are growing up so fast. Your daddy & I love you soooo much! Cannot wait to continue to watch you grow and learn new things. You bless us so much everyday. :)