Food baby?

I’ve come up with the perfect way to describe how I feel at this point in the pregnancy, I feel like I’ve eaten a huge amount of food all the time! You know after thanksgiving dinner how you just want to unbutton your pants and lounge around b/c you’ve eaten soo much. That’s how being pregnant feels … at least to me it does. I feel like I’m waiting for a large meal to digest and I want to nap lol.And like when you’ve had a very large meal you feel like you can’t bend over because you’re. just. too. full! But there are obvious differences like I’ve never had a meal start to kick me before. And no one ever thought that my  food belly was cute. Also even though you feel big and full you still get hungry because it's not actually food in there it's just a 1 pound baby in your belly. It's definitely a weird feeling I'm not sure what I thought being pregnant would feel like but a kicking thanksgiving dinner is not what I had in mind :)

                                                         The belly 22 weeks

And non-pregnancy related stuff. I gave Chris a hair cut today.

 

Here he is showing off his new haircut

I've been making lots of sweets (by request of Chris) in the last month or so I've made two 8x8 pans of mint brownies, oatmeal chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies, and a 8x8 pan of apple cake. I did make the apple cake because I wanted the rest were requests. I got a new calling in church I'm in charge of activity days for the 8-11 year old girls.   

And just for fun here's the two of us :)

Comparison

So I thought it'd be fun to do another side by side comparison from last week and this week. I have a feeling I'm going to "pop" sometime soon.

It's crazy to think that I'm over halfway through the pregnancy. It's gone by so fast!

Movement

I can’t help but smile when I feel baby girl poke at me. It’s like she's saying “Hi momma, I’m still in here just so you know!” lol Last night I was just seeing if Chris would be able to feel her yet. So I was putting pressure in places I had felt her move to see if I could feel her with my hand. So far when I’ve felt her with my hand it’s been more like a pulse more than anything really, just small pushes. But last night she pushed on me hard! As in I saw my fingers go up and down. But she only did it once then started kicking my bladder (it’s her favorite thing to do!) I told Chris that I wished my hand was his so he could have felt her. He just not as patient with trying to feel her as I am… I’ll sit there forever just putting pressure in different places trying to feel her. And he’ll up after a minute or so, I just don’t think he knows what to look for, so it’s not as fun for him yet. He tells me he’ll feel her when she makes more obvious moves but for now he’s fine with not feeling her. And the thing is she doesn’t move in the same spot more then once or twice. So it’s not like I can’t have him feel where I just did and feel her, because by then she’s gone. She’s a wiggle worm like her mommy. It’s been fun :)

Hunny

I thought I’d share a funny, cute, I love my hubby story. When Chris and I had been dating for a while I think it might have been just before we got engaged or a bit before I started calling him hunny and at first he did not like it, he’d just laugh at me every time I called him hunny. But eventually he started calling me hunny too. And now that’s just what we call each other, when we first started dating we called each other babe and now it’s hunny :) But when I get frustrated with him, he’s no longer hunny he’s Christopher, well it progressively goes to Christopher from hunny to hun from hun to babe to babe to Chris from Chris to Christopher something to that effect. Or it just skips straight to Christopher lol. And the other night he went straight from hunny to Christopher because it was time for bed, I was tired and I’m 5 months pregnant. I can’t remember what we were talking about but I said “Really Christopher?” in an annoyed voice and he said "That’s not my name." I was puzzled, “How is Christopher not your name?” and he responded “My name is hunny.” How can you be annoyed at that? I just laughed and gave him a hug and kiss and we went to bed

So I honestly don’t know which of these two I dislike more, being told that I was huge for how far along I was in the beginning of my pregnancy or now being told that I don’t even look big and definitely not like I’m 20 weeks pregnant. I’m sure the second is supposed to be a compliment but it just makes me wonder how big people thought I was before I was pregnant?   

                                                                        as in 2 months before getting pregnant

I don’t know about you but I see a big difference!

Little Kicks

Last night I had my hand on my belly to see if I could feel baby girl move through my hand. And I did!! Twice! But she decided to stop moving so Chris wasn't able to feel her :( I was so bummed out that he wasn’t able to feel her that I keep poking at her and shaking her randomly to see if she’d move again but she wasn’t having it she’d just push on my hand I could feel it through my belly but not on my hand. Chris told me to leave her alone that I was going to make her mad lol. So I stopped bugging her. But Chris should be able to feel her soon!

And pictures are always fun. 

 

Where my hand is in the picture is pretty close to where I felt her move. 

 

Starting to get big! (Check out my cute new maternity shorts!)

Thought it was kinda funny to show my toes starting to disappear!

Sugar and Spice

May Fri 6^th We had our appointment yesterday and it was so fun! We got to see baby wiggle and move for an hour! We have lots of pictures and a dvd of our appointment. And we’re 90 % sure we’re having a GIRL! Yay so fun! She had her legs crossed the whole time! 

So after our tech got the information she needed she just focused the wand over baby’s privates to wait till she moved to confirm what she already suspected. Baby finally moved her legs apart enough to see her stuff just long enough to get the confirmation. The tech told us she was 90% sure baby is a girl she saw what she believed to be female  parts and saw no signs of male parts during the entire appointment.

Here are some of my favorite pictures we got from the appointment! I think baby girl is already so cute! (captions are under each picture)

Here is one where baby is looking forward you can see her cute little face! Look you can see her eyes and nose and mouth! I think she is so cute!

Here’s is her profile! Isn’t she the cutest baby already!
 

She’s a modest little thing she had her legs crossed the whole time and when the tech brought this image up she said that baby had a cute little bottom and right after she had said that baby put her hand over her bottom like don’t look at my bum! Lol I thought it was pretty funny! 

They also included some 3D ultrasound pictures in the appointment that’s just something they do there it wasn’t extra. So here are some of the 3D ones.

 Here’s baby girl with her hand up to the side of her face.

The tech said that it looks like baby is on the phone in this one lol

I think this one is my favorite of the 3D ones I think you can make out her face really well! And I think her lips are so cute!


Oh and a lot of people have been asking if we have a name yet and we do.
Her name will be Penelope Mae Burton and we'll call her Penny for short.