oh baby | thirty-four weeks

how far along? | 34 weeks 

due date: january 14, 2016

baby’s size | baby is the size of a butternut squash and is around 4.2-5.8 lbs and 17.2-18.7 inches long 

gender | a baby boy! 

feeling | besides yesterday, i feel really good!! i felt dehydrated, nauseous, and very worn down. however, my back pain has been gone for two weeks now {the best feeling ever.} and i am sleeping well. my energy levels have been pretty good too and the acid reflex i was experiencing is slightly better than it was- yay!! according to the doctor, baby is head down and will probably stay that way until delivery. i was measuring right on track at thirty-three weeks {he was measuring three weeks ahead until thirty weeks} and am up eighteen total pounds. we were in the car for a total of twenty hours last week and i wanted to keep my hips stable- for my back- so a little bit of swelling occurred in my feet; however, it’s now much better! very thankful for that.

movement |  he’s been moving SO much! and i love it.


sleep |  i really can’t complain! i was up most of tuesday into wednesday because i felt very sick but other than that, it’s all good. i tend to get really hot but an opened window and taking the covers off seems to help! totally freezing out mr. monaco- esp. when we were in ohio {where it’s about thirty degrees cooler than north carolina} 

enjoying some delicious peppermint ice cream at leopold’s in savannah, georgia

cravings | still loving water, smoothies, oranges, spinach salads, purple grapes… and peppermint ice cream. yum. and it’s so nostalgic to me and reminds me of when my mom used to buy the little christmas tree ice cream treats while we watched holiday movies in our popples sleeping bags {did you love popples as much as i did?!}

miss anything | sleeping on my stomach sounds pretty great 

– thanksgiving day love for baby boy-

your mom is so thankful for you.

fun facts | baby’s recognizing and reacting to simple songs, if you’re singing them. {i play pandora, talk, and sing to him all the time} in fact, he started to move around after i started talking to him in the bath tub the other night- it melted my heart. ps: the bath tub is def. my favorite thing in our house right now.

how’s dad? | so loving, kind, and excited to meet his son- it’s precious to watch. he’s been so helpful every week and is so good at taking care of us. 


best moment of the week| i loved shopping with my mom last friday – below is a picture of one of the boutique windows where we browsed all afternoon. lots of great finds … just loved spending time together. it’s so hard being so far apart during times like this. going to pick out our tree monday evening was another highlight- along with seeing family/friends saturday at my parent’s college football game day party. especially when one of my best friends from college walked down the stairs with her new husband {you may remember their very personal/beautiful wedding here} she surprised me {love them both} and brought baby monaco a buckeye onesie♥

looking forward to | decorating our home for the holidays {hopefully saturday}, maternity photos this sunday, and birthing classes this weekend/all of next week 

sitting by my parent’s fireplace and watching the macy’s parade 

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our announcement
telling mr. monaco
telling our village
our gender reveal party
thoughts on being a boy mom
bohemian | woodland baby shower {part one}
bohemian | woodland baby shower {part two}
a letter to our unborn baby
autumn | storybook baby shower {part one}
autumn | storybook baby shower {part two}
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