MY LITTLE MUNCHKIN: WEEK 22

WEEK 22

Christmas morning.

December 20th. 127 days left. Baby is 9 inches long and weights around 13.5 oz During the 22nd week. The skin is getting less and less transparent, so the veins are not as visible as they used to be. The baby looks like a miniature newborn. The baby's senses are developing and maturing from day to day, and baby's brain and nerve ending are now mature enough to process the sensation of touch. Babies at this age start touching the membrane of the amniotic sac, their own face, and reaching and grasping the umbilical cord. Already, he is a small explorer. I've been been feeling pretty good, a little more tired then usual. And I really have to watch what I eat, I get heartburn like crazy and I don't like it. I never even had heartburn before I got pregnant, so now TUMS are my best friends. The belly is growing everyday and Mark is moving around more and more everyday, even Toly and mom felt him move already. What an amazing feeling. Toly went snowboarding on Monday with some of his friends, so I did some Christmas shopping and hung out with Yelena most of the day. Tuesday I had a early Dr. appointment, it was just a review of my chart, nothing special. But i had a yummy breakfast with Toly and some friends at Sunny Point Cafe, my favorite place. OMG! Wednesday I got this bright idea of bringing all the nieces and nephew over to make Christmas cookies, it was a hot mess! But at the end of the day we had lots of fun, and they all enjoyed playing outside and watching Christmas movies together. Later Toly took me out to see Christmas light at Lake Julian and for a movie. We went to see Little Fockers, which I have to say was very funny. Thursday was another busy day, started out with an hair appointment with Yelena, she always make me look so good. Thank you so much sis! Then off to the grocery store to buys food for the Christmas party at Lilia's house. It was a lot of fun, we got to eat a lot of good food and open our presents. Alina picked me and she got me some Carolina Panthers PJs from Victoria Secret, some very cute earrings, a matching necklace, and the cutest picture frame ever. It's for baby Mark to put up his ultrasound picture, so so cute! I wish I could of stayed longer but me and Toly had plans to go to Grove Park Inn and stay the night. That was pretty amazing, we got a great room with an awesome view. Thanks to my sister Oksana Wells, we also got some Chocolate covered strawberries and sparkling grape juice. We had such a great night we checked in and went to the great hall for some time at the huge fire place which was so nice and cozy, then back to the room to eat our strawberries with grape juice. We got a late check out so we got to sleep in till 12 noon. We checked out and went out to get some lunch at 12 Bones, one of our favorite place to eat as well. Then we did some shopping at the mall. Toly bought me an early Christmas present, a Hollister jacket which should fit me for at least one more month LOL. Later that day went to Biltmore Baptist Church for the Christmas eve candle lit service, and then to Serge's house for some dinner. Christmas day! Woke up in the morning to an all white Christmas, which was a dream come true. Me and Toly played in the snow all morning long, rode the 4 wheeler, played snowball fights with the neighbors, and of course took lots of pictures. Then we went to pick up Paul, Irina and Vika and we all went to Oksana house for an early Christmas dinner and lots of presents of course. Dinner was delicious and the dessert was even better. Irina made drunk cherry cake which was so good, and moms nalisniki were really good too. Well its Christmas so it only mean one thing, PRESENTS... so we opened all the presents. Everyone got what they asked for, I think. The last present was labeled to Irina from Paul and when she open it, its was lots of baby clothes and it took everyone a few second to figure out what that was all about. It was the best present of all that everyone got, it was finding out that Irina my brothers wife is pregnant 3 months, (12 weeks). We (the girls) started screaming and crying from excitement, it was such a surprise, we all loved it. After all the present got opened we all changed into our snow clothes and went out to go sledding and playing in the snow. It was a pretty nice hill so we all had so much fun sliding down, playing in the snow, and taking lots of pictures. We came back into the house for second round of food, dessert, and some hot tea. Then we played Wii with the kids and we all left home around 12 midnight. It kept snowing all night till morning, so Sunday morning church was canceled. So i got my Wii hooked up that i got for Christmas from my hubby and we played it most of the day.