I was sitting here, uploading some photos, and I am about 90% sure I felt her move. I have heard people describe the sensation as butterflies, fluttery, or bubbles, and I definitely felt like someone was blowing bubbles inside my stomach. It's kind of higher up than I thought it would be, which is interesting. I have suspected movement in the past week or so, but this was different and more noticeable than anything before. Finally! <3<3
Ever since I found out that we are having a Hazel and not a William I feel like my brain's been hijacked. I feel like I'm really pregnant now. Not to mention I have kind of popped out in the last few weeks...I feel like I just looked down one day and there was this belly that no amount of sucking-in can do away with. It's getting harder to work, to be on my feet for so long and really to pay that much attention to people, but I definitely want to stick it out until the end of May. The last trimester I am reserving for momma & baby time, to just put together the nursery & get everything ready for her arrival.
Amos and I had some fun this weekend! It's kind of rare, since I work a double on Friday and Saturday and he is always working, even when he's at home. Saturday I got a break from work, and we went to dinner at Nola's then shopped around for baby clothes together. We picked out some cutie pie things for Hazel. Yesterday we went to the best brunch buffet I have ever visited in my life at the casino here with Carrie, Andy, Emma & their families. Seriously, it was a pregnant woman's dream. Almost no breakfast food -- but pizza, corn dogs, salads, seafood, Chinese food, a carving station, pasta, desserts...it was like my biggest fantasy come true!!!
The verdict is in, and the judge ruled in my favor.
It's a girl!!!
A very active girl, with long fingers according to the technician. She was moving all around, opening & closing her mouth, waving her hands around...it was so adorable. I might have cried just a little bit.
Check out the bottom right picture - she is sucking her thumb!
Since a lot of people have been asking, I made a baby registry. Well, at least I got a good start on one. I'm set up at Target.com, which is convenient for both Amos & I plus anyone who wants to get a baby gift, since they will ship it to us (or maybe we can pick it up at the store here?). I chose items based on what we like, but more on safety ratings & other parent reviews. The car seat is so expensive I want to cry a little...but it has excellent ratings and goes from infant seat up to 45 lbs. Babies are expensive!
Amos and I have also picked out a crib & changing table, the only two pieces of furniture that we are going to buy. We have a dresser already that was Amos's when he was little, and he is going to reinforce & repaint it this summer. This is the crib we have chosen; simple, uncomplicated, and white. It's a convertible too. I'm not sure about changing tables, but I'm thinking of going with this one from Target. I don't really mind that the styles do not match; after all, how long really will we use a changing table?
In other news, I was wrong about the sonogram date, it's one day earlier! So on Wednesday we find out. I can absolutely not wait. I have been feeling pretty good, just kind of crampy and bachache-y. My heating pad and I are besties now, lol.
...until we go for the ultrasound!!! I am so excited, I'm trying to remain calm but dudes. I am freaking.
I am dying to know what this baby is! I think, in a way, it will make it more real for me. I haven't felt any movement yet, so knowing the sex and seeing the baby on the screen will really cement it for me I think, even more than hearing the heartbeat (which was still pretty bitchin').
People have started asking...yes I have been showing, but not in an obviously pregnant way until pretty recently. So I asked Amos to take a quickie pregnant photo yesterday, and here is the nacho-cheese-covered result:
I look so tired in this photo!! That is the first thing I thought when I saw it. It's not the best photo ever, but you can clearly see my little bulge and my cute bun in the oven maternity wear. Overalls & huge tent dresses are not in this pregnant woman's forecast.
Is it wrong to say that I have been feeling not pregnant, but so fat lately?? I'm sure every woman goes through this phase when she's showing, but not showing showing. In another month there will be no mistaking that I'm on a double date no matter what, but in the meantime I feel all paranoid. It's not really getting me down, I just thought I'd share.
You know how advertisements on the Internet can seem to match up with your location, or interests, or what you commonly search for? This ad has been following me around for the past few months:
Did you notice the part that is bothering me? Besides the fact that this girl is extremely thin except for her baby bump, check out this crap right here:
Girl has a black eye!! No wonder men aren't allowed!!!!
I want to go see this movie in April, but I probably won't remember that I want to see it. It looks hilarious!!!
First of all, I'm 17 weeks today! Almost five months, and my belly definitely staged a coming out party in these past couple of weeks. At the restaurant on Saturday night I wore a clingy dress, and it was more than evident that this belly didn't come from too many nachos or pizza.
Secondly, a lot of people lately have been asking about baby gifts & so forth. I have been researching the baby necessities, the things you gotta have for a baby, to choose the ones I think are the most beneficial and safest for a baby. I'm registering at a few places, definitely Target and probably Babies R Us, maybe one or two others (not Wal-Mart, though, I am 100% sure about that one). We appreciate any and all gifts and warm wishes for our baby, so thank you in advance <3
