Third Trimester...already!

   I can not believe that I am already in my third trimester, it seems as though the last 6 months have just flown by. One of my our baby showers is coming up on the 24th of this month and it felt like it was yesterday when I thought our first shower was so far away. So much to do in so little time.... still needing to put the nursery together, Al and I have a prenatal class to attend which I am excited about next Saturday at UTSouthwestern. I am not for sure how much he is looking forward to it, but I really can't blame him. Hopefully they will make it a little interesting and not just a classroom set up.
   I have to share a funny story from about 2 weeks ago... Al and I went to Buy Buy Baby to register for a few items that we need, he was not able to go with me when I registered at Babies R' Us and Target, and I really wanted him to be apart of the registering experience so I held off registering for the car seat, the stroller and a few other items. We spent a total of 2 hours in Buy Buy Baby., 30 minutes going through the majority of the store and an hour and a half in the stroller/car seat section!! We had this very nice lady talk to us about all the differences between the car seats and strollers and safety regulations on each of them. She was disconnecting the car seat from the base and showing us if it was a metal clip or plastic clip that keeps them together. She also was showing us all the different strollers and how to connect the car seat to them and how to collapse and open the strollers back up. Overall, a very nice and educated sales associate but she was talking both of our ears off, so we were happy when she finally left us alone. Here is where the fun began..... we went back to the car seats to figure out which one we wanted to register for, we could not for the life of us figure out how to disconnect one dang car seat from its base. I think we tried to disconnect at least 5 or 6 and failed on all. With that frustration we gave up and moved to the strollers. To start we had one car seat that was already connected to the stroller so we decided to give it a shot and disconnect it from the stroller so we could figure out how to collapse the stroller.... of course no luck. Al was lifting the whole stroller up in the air while trying to pop off the car seat... no luck there either. Finally, we gave up there are just went to a stroller to collapse and open it. We pulled handles, pushed buttons, pushed levers, kicked with our feet bars and knobs towards the bottom of the stroller.... it wasn't budging. We with success finally got one stroller to collapse then could not get it to open back up...of course. But I think the Big Guy above was done laughing at us and finally we got a car seat disconnected from the base (high fives on Aisle 3) and we finally picked a stroller that was one push collapse and one pull to open (Happy Dance on Aisle 2)!!! Of course we had been there so long that our registry scanner decided to time out and we had to reactivate it again at the front desk to scan both items. HELP US!!!! 
   My third trimester has been going good so far, still have good energy but there have been days where it is a little harder to move around. I definitely am struggling to tie my shoe laces before I work out, my belly is definitely popping out more and more every day, maybe I should just think in investing in some grandpa Velcro shoes to make it easier. Overall though I really do not have any complaints, although, most if not all my mommy friends tell me is just forget about moving around my last 2 weeks of pregnancy, all I am going to be is big and miserable. I am really glad that this pregnancy has fallen in the time frame it has so hopefully when I do get pretty big at least it will be semi cooler outside and I can start walking in the morning. I'm trying my hardest to stay active as long as I can.
   Another thing that I am waiting on is seeing a hand or foot pop up through my stomach. Chance has definitely been kicking, turning and doing somersaults a lot in the past 2 weeks. Some days I feel like he is about to kick me out of my chair at work, while others it feels like when I first felt him move, just a little flutter here and there throughout the day.
   I am so excited and ready to put this nursery together, I put together the cube organizer yesterday, it looks so cute. But first thing is first we have got to paint that room!! Al and I went to Best Buy a 2 weeks ago and got 3 samples of paint, 2 light brown and a baby blue. I think both of us fell in love with the baby blue (called Tropical Blue). So hopefully this week he and I can start putting painters tape down and have the room painted by the end of this week. I feel like a little school girl and really happy and excited to start this project.