20 weeks

I can't believe we are halfway there. Time is going by so quickly that before I know it, I will have a little baby in my arms. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff we need to get done but I know that we will have everything ready for Dex/Ayda.
Ultrasound is tomorrow (let's hope) after 3 or 4 reschedules. The last being the fault of some lady who stole my doctor away so she could give birth... sheesh, the nerve of some people :) I'm so excited to see how this little bugger looks and to hear how s/he is developing. I'm really hoping there is no slippage of the sex or that the baby doesn't give us the opportunity to see what the sex is. Max and I really want to keep this a surprise!

Oh my college buddies

I met up with Sarah and Ashley today for a little Olive Garden dinner :) It's so nice that I have found such good friends when I went to college. Even nicer that we have stayed good friends! Plus who else would I talk "photo" with! No one understands the photoshop lingo! Love you ladies!
P.S. Ashley! Don't be such a blog stalker! Start your own blog up so I can return the stalking! jk. kinda ;)

It's sleepy time

Dear Dexter/Ayda,

The bigger you get my child, the earlier I'm waking up. I'm sorry to tell you but it is not a work day. Weekends you are allowed to sleep later. If you could please let momma store up some sleep, I will be happy to wake up with you at all hours of the night when you come out. Maybe not happy about waking up, but happy to have you with me.

Love you!

Momma

P.S. It's really weird to write momma and mean me, not MY mother.

FYI

Pregnant people who:
-woke up on the wrong side of the bed,
-have had a very bad/cranky (dang hormones) day

DO NOT DO WELL with:
-waiting for the very exciting ultrasound for 40 min
-then being told it needs to be rescheduled because the doctor had to help a patient give birth
-then having it rescheduled for the next Friday to be re-rescheduled for Monday again.

Pregnant people just want to see their baby.
Without all the reschedules.

19 weeks

We had a pretty good week this week :) No big problems, not too many headaches. Bugger moves around all the time now! Or at least I can feel him/her moving around all the time now. Just a couple of days ago, s/he was playing kickball with my appendix or something and was moving around HARD and Max could feel the baby from the outside! It has happened a couple more times since then so that is very exciting :) I know how much Max has been looking forward to that. Even last night he slept with his hand on my belly which he hasn't really done. I think he wants to feel the baby more. Seems like the little bugger moves around the most in the evening. I feel him/her in the morning for just a little while but at night s/he goes wild! A good hour or so is spent kicking and swirling around. I love it!
We had our 18 week appointment on Friday. I am having such an ideal pregnancy so far (knock on wood) that we don't even have anything to discuss in our appointments! The baby's heartbeat was at 148 for that appointment. So they go like this so far: 155, 150 and 148. Mom freaked out right away and said "SEE, IT'S A GIRL". I know that I would be mighty surprised if this baby turned out to be a girl but I think mom will be just as surprised if bugger is a boy. So either way, someone is going to be very surprised.
Our ultrasound in on Thursday! I'm so excited to see my little bugger on that screen. I am still going back and forth with Max about the pictures. He is the only person I know who is slightly creeped out by ultrasounds so he doesn't want any pictures going on the internet. I told him that since he wants NONE on the internet and I want THEM ALL on the internet, a good compromise would be for me to put a couple up and just on my blog. I feel like a lot less people read my blog then facebook so that should satisfy him a little bit. He is still being a bear about it but I'll work on it. He has to compromise too! No worries, we are still not finding out the sex. Hopefully no one slips or we will be mighty upset.

Cousins :)

2 sisters-one due date-happy cousins :)

18 weeks

I felt the baby move!!!! Oh what an amazing feeling. Physical validation (other then my growing stomach) that there is a little baby in there :) I feel him/her daily now. Sometimes it's little "bubbles", almost like fizz rising to the top of your soda, sometimes its a "swish" where I imagine him/her kicking or stretching. Always I like to stop and pay attention. Even right now as I write this the baby is moving around... bugger knows we are talking about him/her! I LOVE it. Now I can't wait for Max to be able to feel the baby as well. I always stick his hand on my belly even though I know he can't feel it but just so his hand is so close to contact with our baby.
We have our 18 week appointment on Friday so we'll get to hear the heartbeat again as well as the ultrasound next week :):):) super excited for that! I will carry around those photos and show them to everyone! Max is really weird about the ultrasound pics though, he doesn't want me to put any on the internet. We are going to have to compromise on that one.
My sister-in-law had her ultrasound this past week and found out she was having a boy. I was gobsmacked. I was sure, SURE that she was having a girl and now it's a boy. Now my instincts feel all off and I'm not sure what I am having. I don't think I am having the same sex as Kennedy so now I have switched and am calling my belly Ayda more often (I was calling my belly Dexter all the time). Only 21 or so weeks until we see I guess! They will go fast enough, think of how fast the last 20 weeks have gone!

p.s. my 18 week pic was taken at 1030 at night while having one of my frequent vicious headaches... please excuse my extreme pleasure I'm showing here...