28 Weeks {3rd trimester}

We have officially entered the 3rd trimester!!  I have been feeling really great through this point and I really hope that trend continues!!  I think this past week the baby has grown and has gotten really strong because the kicking is getting really prominent and I am really starting to feel  actual body parts instead of just tiny kicks and flutters.  It feels so strange yet amazing!!  

Brian and I went to Chicago this past weekend with Jena & Kory and we met Andrea and Jon there.  It was a college roommate reunion!!  We had so much fun together.  We went to a Cubs baseball game and the temperate was HOT!  It felt about the same temp as it was on the 4th of July, and I think I was sweating even worse at the game than at the parade.  The amazing part is that people in Chicago seem to LOVE pregnant women.  At the game I was given a lot of attention and a lot of the stadium staff made it a point to tell me that if I was too hot at any time just to let someone know and I could utilize a special "cooling" room at the stadium.  I didn't use it, but it was nice knowing it was there.  

We did a ton of walking in Chicago.  I have never had such sore feet in my life!  The extra 20 pounds I'm carrying around is really getting to me :)  This was my first experience with swollen feet.  Luckily Brian was a champ and as soon as we got back to the hotel he got me a bag of ice and propped my feet up on some pillows.  30 minutes later the swelling was down and I wasn't grossed out by my feet anymore!!

Here is my "official" 28 week photo taken on Navy Pier with the Chicago skyline in the background. 

Brian and I at "The Bean".  I can't wait to see a movie based in Chicago so I can see the sights again!  We had so much fun in Chicago and definitely not enough time to do it all.  We will have to go back again soon!!