22 Weeks

Whoa, that's a BIG belly!!  I think I need to stop taking these pics right after we eat dinner.

•How far along are you? 22 Weeks

•How big is baby?: At 11 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound, your baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn

•Maternity clothes: I'd say it's a good mix now. I still prefer to wear my non-maternity pants to work.  My maternity pants still look huge on me!  The clothes in this pic are all non-maternity clothes. 

•Gender: BOY!! Evan Michael Baxter. Em is finally starting to accept she's having a brother.  She will point to my stomach and say Baby Evan.  Tonight I gave her a sticker and she came and put in on my tummy and said it was for baby Evan.  :)

•Sleep?: I've been sleeping pretty well this week although Em has been waking up once in the middle of the night several nights this week.  Hoping that doesn't last long.

•Best moment this week?: Picking out baby brother's bedding!  We went the custom route again.  It should be here in 6-8 weeks!  I'm waiting for fabric swatches to be mailed to me and then we'll decide how to paint the room.  We're going with blue, brown and off-white.  We're planning on ordering his furniture on Saturday.  I think I have the set that I want picked out, I just need to see it in the store to confirm I like it.

•Movement?: Still not consistent movement, but the kicks continue to get harder.

•Food cravings?: Bananas or anything with bananas

•Food aversions?: Nothing really.

•What I miss: Nothing really.

•Symptoms: Nothing really this week.  Just that it's definitely getting harder to get up off the floor after playing with Em.  I'm thinking I'm going to reach that uncomfortable point much earlier in this pregnancy.

•Milestone: Only about 125 days to go!  I know I say this all the time, but I really can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going.  I feel like we still have so much left to do before he gets here! 

And just for some comparison, here's a pic of when I was 22 weeks preggo with Em.  This pic isn't the best angle, but trust me when I say the belly is much bigger this time around!

In Em news, I've been tempting Em to use the potty by telling her she could wear her big girl panties for a little bit this past weekend.  Well as soon as I put them on her, she told me she wanted her diaper back on.  I guess they just feel different and she didn't like it?  I decided I'm not going to push them until school requests we start sending her in them.

Also, we originally had planned to put Em in a toddler bed if we found out we were having a boy.  But after realizing we didn't order the toddler conversion set and looking at the cost of ordering it, we decided to just skip that step and go straight to the full size bed (we did buy that conversion set).  So not only are we trying to get baby brother's room together, I'm also trying to plan Em's big girl room.   We're going to order her mattress when we order baby brother's furniture.  We're also hoping to order her a mirror to go above her dresser.  There are a few that match her furniture set.  I'm trying to find bedding that will go with her current color scheme so Shawn doesn't have 2 rooms to paint.   I found one at PBK that I think I'm going to go with.  The sheet set was on sale so I went ahead and ordered it last weekend.  I'm hoping the quilt and shams might go on sale too.  I saw the bedding in the store and I liked it even better than online.  It would add purple and blue to her pink and green room.