Warrandyte

After flying back to Melbourne, the next day, we ventured out to Warrandyte which is a small town where my sister used to live before she moved into the city.  

There wasn't a ton to do, so we spent some time at the park, by the river and enjoying fish and chips.  That is until we ventured out into the wild to see.....

KANGAROOS!

Not far from the town, there was a nature preserve where the kangas just hang out in the wild.  I have no idea  why I agreed to walk through that brush to get some good pics (hello! that has to be full of SNAKES!), but I did it for the sake of the experience. It was pretty surreal being THAT close to wild kangaroos. And funny to see them hop away when we got too close.

Finally, we ended the day with searching for koalas. Kangaroos are a lot more common to run into in the wild, but koalas are pretty hard (a lot of Australians haven't ever seen one in the wild). They sleep practically all day high up in the trees, so they are really hard to spot. Just as we were finishing up our walk and thinking we were unsuccessful, my brother in law spotted one:

To give an idea of how hard they are to spot, here's a video of it. This video was also already on zoom.

Such a fun day feeling like a true Aussie instead of a tourist.

29-31 weeks

29 weeks:

• I think heartburn is starting. I was really hoping I would be lucky and this is one pregnancy symptom that would somehow pass me by, but I don't think that is the case. I have never had heartburn before, but I am pretty sure what I had was a mild version of it. 
• My belly is REALLY starting to move. Before a little kick would happen here and there. Now my entire stomach is just moving all over the place. It's kind of freaky looking, I'm not going to lie. Still no rib kicks... knock on wood.
• Insomnia is back with a vengeance!  I know that they say that my body is just preparing itself for things to come. I don't need 11 weeks to prepare! Just one or two would be sufficient. And it's not that I am not sleeping all night. My body just has this automatic alarm clock where I wake up at 4 or 5 am. I'm not awake for the day. I'm not even wide awake. I'm just laying there, not sleeping.  I will drift in and out of a very light sleep, but some days I just feel like I am tossing and turning for 4 hours straight. I'm not uncomfortable and don't have something weighing on my mind, I'm simply just not sleeping. And I don't know how I'm not sleeping because I am EXHAUSTED

30 weeks:

• I might be finally out of the woods in regards to nausea.  I am yet to make it over 4 weeks without throwing up, but I feel better than I have up to date. I don't get as queasy if I don't eat every 2 hours on the dot. I think I actually made it 3 or 4 hours without eating the other day. It was a miracle!
• Each week I am amazed at how much he moves. I keep thinking he moves so much until the next week when he is moving even more. 
• We took a trip to Sacramento. I wouldn't recommend flying at 30 weeks pregnant. The pressure made me so so bloated and I was uncomfortable the entire time. Luckily our flight wasn't too long though.
• Because I sleep on my hips, they are starting to get SORE. I wake up and they are numb sometimes. And if it isn't my hips, it is my neck and back. I figured I would have back and neck pain because I already have chronic back and neck pain... just not excited that it's already here! 

31 weeks:

• I might not be getting kicked in the ribs, but he sure does like to live up there. My ribs are sore just because he likes to nestle his little bum way way up there. My mom said I did the same thing all of the time. Like mother like son! If he isn't in my ribs, then he is down by my hips. And it tickles! He is constantly getting the hiccups right on the band of my jeans which was really cute at first. Now it's just kind of irritating (imagine a little twitch every few seconds on the tightest part of your jeans for 5 min straight) and I think we are both excited when they are over.
• Just the other day, I finally noticed that my stomach was a little lopsided. One side was kind of soft and the other was hard as a rock. Crazy that I can kind of tell where he is sometimes.
• 10 weeks seems to far away. But then I think about how he could realistically be here starting in 6 weeks (not that I am planning on it) and that seems so close! I know the time is going to fly by and before we know it, he will be here!

An Update

Without realizing it, I totally made it seem like we are very close to being settled and that I know where that place is going to be. Funny thing is, I think we are close, yet farther away than we have ever been. I didn't mean for it to come across like we finally know exactly what we are doing... because we don't!  I was trying to say that we are approaching the time where we are going to be forced to be "settled". With Jordan graduating, looking for a new job and the fact that we HAVE to be out of our current apartment by June 1, that time is getting closer, but I still have absolutely no idea where we are going to move.

However, I do have an update that I didn't even have when I did that post last week. JORDAN GOT A JOB! Wahoo! He will be working in Provo at a place called Qualtrics doing sales. So it looks like we will be staying in Utah County... somewhere between Springville and Lehi. Where that will be? Well, all I can say is we're working on it. And yes, I am anxious and stressed out of my mind because we literally have two major ticking time bombs (a baby and an end lease date). Wish us luck.

A Post to the Mamas

I can finally start thinking about buying baby things (I literally have 6 outfits, a bumper set and a bassinet) now that our moving date/getting settled is within view (sort of)! I love hearing everyone's recommendations for things that they love.  Please share your favorite baby items that you just couldn't live without... or maybe not that dramatic, but just things that you absolutely loved.

Please and thank you.

This is me with my golden pram - a necessity, I'm sure.