22 weeks

I’m pretty sure it’s official. My belly has popped.

The popping of the belly has always been something I never really believed happened during pregnancy. People would say, ‘oh my belly popped at week __’ and I would think ummm probably not. I just thought it would gradually grow and slowly you make your way to a full 40 week belly that looks both huge and adorable at the same time. Nope, it happened. I noticed it yesterday at a friends wedding. I was wearing a dress and thought ‘holy, my belly looks huge! (for a 21 +5 week belly)’ but when I got home and took off the dress I was like ‘holy cow! My belly IS huge!’ (Although I do think that when you wear dresses it does really make the belly look a bit bigger then it actually is) And even today, wearing jeans I could notice it.

21 weeks + 5 days- going to a friend's wedding!

I’m still wearing all my normal clothes, jeans are feeling a bit tighter but overall still fine. I’m going to have to start searching for longer shirts soon, but really don’t want to have to get them from a maternity store because I just feel really young in those stores, even though I’m not that young. Good thing mom is making me a maternity wardrobe, to go along with whatever I buy. Puking is becoming more sporadic. I’m on a 4 day no puke run currently. Although there were about 3 different times today when I actually ran to the bathroom because I thought something was coming up. I have started having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night again, which I very much dislike! It really ruins your sleep. I found out at the doctors on Thursday that I finally gained weight. About 8 pounds I think. My Oma told me today that she gained about 25 pounds with her pregnancy’s and then quickly lost it after, so hopefully I have her genes!

And for the best part of my past 2 weeks- The baby kicks! I’ve been feeling it more and more and noticed the other day that I could see the kicks from the outside as well as feeling them. Scott felt a little kick the other day, but because it’s so sporadic he hasn’t really felt a big kick yet. And as I type this the baby is kicking me! Such a cool feeling. The kicks are always really low like 2-3 inches below my belly button, which is probably why I can feel them because if it was kicking higher I wouldn’t feel it because the placenta would be in the way.

Mr. Kate (I’m adopting this name from Leah’s Mr. Leah because I think it’s adorable) and I went looking at nursery furniture on Sunday. Everything is so expensive! I really don’t want to have to pay $500 for a crib, WITHOUT the mattress. And it’s great that most cribs convert from a crib, to day bed, to double bed but really we don’t want that because by the time the first kid is ready for a bigger bed there will probably be another one on the way. So we are going to keep searching, I know we will find the perfect set, someday…

Almost 21 weeks here, taken at the beach while camping!

This is the fabric that we are thinking about using for the nursery. It’s not too girly, and not boyish either. If we use that I think we’ll also paint the walls the green colour and use some other blue, green and yellow solid and gingham fabrics as well.

While I do love that fabric there is so much out there, here are some other ones that I saved while looking for inspiration…

Any new guesses out there? Boy or Girl?

126 days to go!