21 weeks!!

So this has been another exciting week! The baby has really started kicking now and sometimes it almost hurts!! I am glad that she is such a strong little girl and I absolutely love feeling her move in there. I have started to be able to see my stomach jump from the outside with some of her stronger moves! She still won't cooperate so her daddy can feel her but I am sure it won't be too much longer!! We are looking forward the weekend ahead as we will be hopefully begin painting and moving upstairs. Aaron has officially amazed me with his carpentry skills!! He has completely remodeled our master closet and it looks awesome!!!! I can't wait to paint and get up there! I am going to be very spoiled with such a great closet!

Pictures

So this is the first official baby bump picture taken at 14 weeks!!

Obviously I still have some work to do to master the art of uploading pictures but you get the picture!

Pictures!!

So now that we have a computer and home internet we will be able to share all of the baby pictures in a more timely manner. But since we have a few weeks stored up here are our baby bump pictures thus far.

17 weeks!

15 weeks!!

16 weeks!

18 weeks!!

19 weeks!

Half-way there at 20 weeks!!

21 weeks and getting big!!!

Half-way there and going bananas!!

Well we are officially half-way to her due date!!!!

So monkey is fittingly the size of a banana this week. According to my weekly update she is 10 1/2 ounces and 10 inches long from head to heel. Apparently she is practicing her swallowing in there which is wierd to imagine but very good for her and her digestive system. She is moving around with a lot more force than before and I feel her pretty much all day- though her favorite time to move around is 5-7ish at night. I am starting to get really anxious now and am very excited to meet her. At this point I am totally cool with her staying in there as long as she wants- Ask me the third week of August when I am huge and hot and it may be a different answer but for now I am content with her staying in there for the long haul! Aaron and I have been diligently looking up names and trying out some of our favorites. I am shocked how difficult picking a name is!!! I try to imagine our family members saying the different names- especially her cousins and its been helpful to imagine if the name really fits in or not.
My body is definitely changing and I feel like every day it looks different. I have been having some sleep difficulties this week leaving me very sluggish but I am still feeling very good besides this. I am completely converted my wardrobe to maternity clothes at this point. I am sure I could still wear some of my old pants with a bella band but the maternity clothes are just so much more comfortable. I am really looking forward to this evening because Aaron and I have a relaxing evening at home planned. We have both been working and missing eachother this week so I am excited to just hang out. I am really hoping that tonight is the night that Aaron feels her move! I plan on trying to get her going with some music- I cant wait to see what makes her move the most and I might try shining the flashlight back and forth to see if she rolls over!! I have been dying to share the excitement of her moving so I definitely have my fingers crossed she really wallops her daddy tonight!
Aaron and I registered at Babies R Us this past weekend and what an experience that was. We were probably in the store for 3 hours just checking out all the craziness that is that store. We spent the most amount of time trying out strollers. We were checking the safety features and trying them out to make sure we'd like walking it around. After much deliberation we finally realized that when we were babies they never had stuff like this and we were spending far to much analyzing all these crazy products! I am fairly certain that we registered for every feminine monkey product that there was and can't wait to start decorating her nursery. I will make one final disclosure about our registry and that is that Aaron was in charge of scanning what went on- hence the 2 bags of 4lb animal crackers???? There were several times during the trip that I laughed so hard I had tears coming out of my eyes so I must say that overall it was a great experience.

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I just love this little girl inside me sooooo much! She's been kicking away in there and it makes me soooo happy :-)

ITS A GIRL!!!!!!!!!

So our little monkey is a girl!! It came as a bit of a shock since Aaron and I both convinced ourselves that the baby was a boy haha. I think we both had a feeling in the beginning that it was a girl but then as time went on and everyone was guessing boys we became more and more convinced the she was he! The doctors were having a little trouble making a definite determination during the ultrasound because her legs kept getting in the way but after much poking and prodding they proudly annouced XX. Aaron gave me a funny look because he couldn't remember what XX was! I said we are having a girl and we both smiled in amazement at our cute daughter!! I personally think she has the cutest ultrasound nose that I have ever seen!! She was stretching and yawning and rolling over throughout the ultrasound making us realize that we are about to have our hands full.
My mother and sister took me out yesterday afternoon and we bought all kinds of fun girly clothes and her first doll!! She also got the cutest pink elephant from her auntie that kicks its legs and arms and sings "You are my sunshine" ITS MY NEW FAVORITE TOY! Hopefully I don't overplay it to make the batteries run out before our monkey even gets to see it!!
We are now going to have our work cut out for us to come up with a suitable name for our daughter! We've decided to keep her name a secret until she's born- but at this point we are in the dark just as much as everyone else! I am just so excited to meet my baby girl!!