19 Weeks

•How far along are you?  19 Weeks! - since Em came at 37 weeks, I'm saying I'm halfway. :)

•How big is baby?: Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom — about the size of a large heirloom tomato.

•Maternity clothes: Just a few maternity shirts and maternity jeans on the weekends, but all my regular work pants (with lots of help from rubberbands and belly bands). I tried to make the switch this week to maternity work pants, but they are still way too big!  So I think it may be at least another week or so before I switch over to them.

•Gender: Only 1 more week until our appt, but 1.5 weeks until we find out (since we're waiting until Sat, the 4th to "reveal" the gender.)  I'm starting to get really anxious!!  I'm ready to start shopping.  :)

•Sleep?: This has started getting better, thank goodness!

•Best moment this week?: Spending a fun weekend going to the stock show and taking Em to the movies.  Also, feeling the baby move so much each day!!

•Movement?: I've been feeling a ton of movement over the last week!  I love it!!  This is definitely the part I was looking forward to the most!  It's the neatest feeling to feel your baby move.  I can feel kicks and also when the baby flips around.  The baby has started kicking hard enough to feel on the outside, but doesn't cooperate when Shawn's around.  I think he'll be able to feel the baby soon though.

•Food cravings?: Bananas

•Food aversions?: Nothing really.

•What I miss: Now that the sleeping situation has gotten better, there's not much that I miss. I'm just trying to enjoy every minute of this pregnancy.  It's going by so fast!!

•Symptoms: No new ones, just bad allergies and thankfully my stomach isn't nearly as itchy anymore! 

•Milestone: Less than 5 months to go!

In Emily news. . .up until now whenever we tell her mommy has a baby in her tummy she'll either just repeat it, blows it off, or tells us Emily and Daddy also have a baby in her tummy.  But it's always been from us saying it first.  This morning while I was brushing her teeth, out of nowhere she turned to me and patted my tummy and said Mommy has a baby in her tummy.  :)  I still don't think she knows what this really means and how it affects her, but it was a sweet moment none the less.

And tonight instead of a belly pic, she wanted to take a chair pic.