Crazy Socks & Writer's Block

Technically our 20 week ultrasound was on the last day of week 19, but who's counting ;) Before I was pregnant, I thought that I would spend every single day wondering what the babies gender was, and would have a countdown until I could find out, and that it would drive me crazy. It really hasn't though. Before that point, I would sometimes forget for hours that I was pregnant, and when I would try and 'feel' what the gender was, I felt nothing. As far as the gender went, we had a girl name that I absolutely adored and felt so right. I would be lying if I didn't say I wanted to buy girl clothes as well, and had dreams of raising a strong lady. All of the dreams I had, I was holding a girl as well. But I still didn't feel one way or the other very strongly.    Most of my family thought that we were having a boy, along with half of my coworkers. Sammy's family all thought it was a girl though. Sammy didn't feel very strongly either what it was. I didn...

Week 18 I'm pretty sure that I felt the baby move this week. I was laying in bed in the morning and telling Sammy that I wished I could feel the baby move. I started poking around my stomach where it's hard, then felt this little flick three times. I wasn't sure if it was my stomach digesting or what so I waited, then felt it one more time. I'd never felt anything like it, so I'm pretty sure it was the baby. I kept poking my belly every day after that trying to make it happen again, but there was nothing. Sammy and I exchanged these messages. We had this weird moment at church where a missionary was talking about her friends conversion story. As she talked, Sammy and I kept looking at each other because this person sounded familiar to someone we both interact with on Twitter. I broke my rule of not getting on the internet during church and messaged her to ask if she knew this missionary. Turns out she did! It's such a small world sometimes. Star Wars ...

Sammy and I went on a road trip to Arizona at the end of April and we had a wonderful time. Leading up to the trip I was getting really anxious about traveling while pregnant, especially because the original path we were going to take was right through the mountains. I get carsick on normal days; I did not want to see what my body had in store going through those winding roads at such a high elevation while pregnant. Honestly I thought about canceling multiple times because of how stressed out it was making me. After a night filled with anxiety, I prayed to know whether I was supposed to go at all, and if I was what the best way to get there would be. The very next morning Sammy woke up and told me he'd been researching while I was sleeping a better route to take that wouldn't be in the middle of the mountains and would be on more major highways with bigger cities along the way. I instantly felt better and like that was the right way to go.  The morning of the trip...

Week 13  We went to the doctor and got to see the baby again. This time the ultrasound was on my stomach and much more pleasant than the first ;) It blew my mind when the doctor put the wand down and found the baby immediately. This time the baby actually looked like a baby, and was moving all around. It was crazy to see all the things it was doing in there, that I can't feel. It was waving its arms, stretching its legs, and floating. We heart the heartbeat which was 145 bpm and so cool. It was reassuring to see that the baby was okay. I asked the doctor about all the weird pains and sensations I've had and afterwards Sammy was like, "I had no idea you were feeling so many things." Well, I am. I've discovered where my sciatic nerve is for starters. I'm a little nervous at what that's going to change into as I get bigger.  We had a game night with friends and I won the second time, which I was pretty proud of. We stayed out past 11 though and I pai...