My favorite season is here! Hat season. Get ready to see them in every post because I literally live for a good summer hat. Also this dress is a maternity style from GAP, I normally don't love wrap style maternity wear because the "v" in the front is usually a leeeetle to low to be approps on these pregnancy boobs - but this one has a little snap button that makes it more modest that I really dig. I wore to this outfit to my family's Mother's Day dinner a couple weekends ago and then again to the Taste of Arlington food festival that takes place right on my street. Great for day or night just swap the heels for flats and a jean jacket. I am currently 24 weeks in these photos and feel like my bump is at a point where it gets visibly bigger each week - finally at the stage where I get a few metro seats offered to be in the morning if I am wearing something form fitting (which was something I was looking forward to for some weird reason - it's a metro mamma's milestone). No real cravings but I definitely LOVE me some sweets right now. I could eat ice cream for every meal. For real. Also cereal with cold milk has been my jam.
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I know I announced this on Instagram weeks ago but in case you only check the blog - it's a GIRL! We'll officially be a house of all females and my husband come September. Since it won't be just us for too much longer I wanted to round up all my loves into one photo if possible since our kitty never makes it for our outdoor Christmas photo. Not going to lie it took one tri-pod, a couple treats, and a TON of patients on the part our fur babies. They get an A+ for effort. I swear if I went one more round of photos someone would have been bloodied by the end of it.
That's it for now, I want to write a more in depth about the actual emotional process of finding out your baby's sex another time since I initially experienced a roller coaster of them that need their own post.
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I wore this little maternity dress on Saturday to my very first trip to Buy Buy Baby. My husband wanted to "test drive" the strollers on our list before making a solid registry decision. It was surreal and a little scary to come to the realization that babies need like, ALL THE THINGS. Aside from that I have really been living in comfortable dresses (maternity and not) with a jacket over for both work and play. It's really become my go-to since I know it works in most situations. I know this method won't work for too much longer when it gets to be super hot but for now it's a time saver in the morning! That and the fact that I have fully cleaned out my closet to make a specific section for things I know will fit me in this moment. It's a small, small slice of the closet but knowing exactly where to each and pull from really saves me from what was becoming a daily anxiety dressing for work each morning. I know some women out there didn't have to do much extra shopping for their bumps, my own sister maybe purchased a total of two maternity dresses her whole pregnancy, but it's not the case for me. I have been out of most of my work/play wardrobe since week 15 so I have had to get creative/invest in mostly new pieces for work wear, weekend wear, underpinnings (my chest has gone up three sizes), and swim/vacation since I have two on the horizon. I like dresses like this because they can cross over from weekend to throwing on a blazer and pumps and being work friendly. Also feeling so, SO much better here in week 22! I think I have finally hit the Goldilocks phase of this thing.
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Hello. It's now 14 week me writing to you from the past (I'm actually 20 weeks now). I have a bunch of posts that I have been writing but waiting to post until I could announce that I was pregnant because I am really bad at lying/not talking about what is relevant to my current situation. I had high hopes that I'd fully come out of the dreaded morning sickness (all day sickness) phase when I got to my second trimester but it looks like I'll be one of the lucky ladies that has it a bit longer - crossing my fingers for it to be over by week 17 (*update I did! Right around week 17) - my sister said she began to feel better then. ANYWAY - this part of being pregnant is weird because you don't really look pregnant yet - you just kinda look like you ate a big Thanksgiving Day feast, every night. You also wake up feeling like you can fit into your regular clothes but then by the end of the day you are like SWEET JESUS SOMEONE PLEASE GET THESE PANTS OFF ME NOW! I've actually just started casually unbuttoning my pants at my work desk and hoping my top covers, livin' on the edge. It's a tough time for dressing, especially for me since my go-to work look is a pencil skirt with a tucked in shirt. Those skirts are getting mighty TIGHT. I have ended up reaching for more comfortable pieces that can grow with me throughout my day - come to think of it, basically like you dress for Thanksgiving - stuff with lots of give and no waist restrictions! This dress is actually one of the the first official "maternity" things I purchased while on a trip up to NYC for a bestie's shower. It's from Hatch and they have the cutest, chicest pregnancy stuff - I ended up loving it so much I got it in yellow too (you'll prob see it up on this blog soon). A lot of this weird middle bump is trial and error, I seriously haven't returned so much in my LIFE (please don't ban me from your site, ASOS) so when you find something that works, get it in every color. I was hoping to buy things that worked for now and for later since I don't want to invest a ton of cash into a wardrobe that is basically for 6 months. This dress is definitely pricer than ANY other cotton striped dress I've ever purchased but when you desperate, YOU DESPERATE. Also I can totally throw a blazer over it and wear it to work - or lose the cardigan and wear it to dinner on vacation! Like so versatile. I did wear this to my other besties baby shower last weekend but it ended up raining all over me before I could snap decent photos. Sorry guys I promise I will do better next time.
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I wore this to Easter church and dinner last weekend and started out the day feeling like I looked pretty good - but then nine hours later, at the end of the day, when these photos were actually taken, sans looking in a mirror (just forced my husband to snap them before we left to go home) - I am not as convinced. Although I have noticeably tired bags under my eyes and my hair that was nicely curled and styled in the morning is now a deflated mess - I still loved my dress so here we go! I was able to wear my normal size in this one since there is a nice little area for my 18 week bump (or food baby - I did have second helpings of ham and all the Easter candy).
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