Baby Update: 17 & 19 Weeks

17 weeks: This week I've noticed my bump. None of my clothes fit just right and maternity clothes swamp me. And I have zero desire to go and buy any "cute" maternity clothes. Luckily, a sister in my ward that just had her last baby and she was anxious to get rid of all of her maternity clothes and we are close in size and everything she brought fit and I was so excited to extend my wardrobe without paying a dime. She brought 3 dresses, 2 tank tops, 5 shirts, and 2 pants. I LOVE EVERYTHING!!! 

I am feeling remarkably well.  This whole pregnancy has been one million times better than my last two pregnancies...I'm still in shock. I throw up multiple times during the week...but I don't have those killer days/weeks/and months I had with my other two where it was near impossible to keep anything down. It's amazing how much better pregnancy is when you aren't so sick all the time. I've only lost 3 pounds this pregnancy and my doctor and I are both very pleased with that. Last time I was averaging about 4 pounds of weight lose per doctor appointment. So this is an improvement.

I love this period of not knowing what we're having. I love imagining a little boy joining our family. I am so partial to boys. I know girls have all these cute things to wear, but I am a sucker for the little boy stuff. I can do without the bows and dresses! But than again, if we have a little girl, I have no doubt she will steal my heart and I will adore her just as much.

19 weeks: I am shocked how fast this pregnancy is going. We are about 99.9% sure this will be our last baby (Carrie, stop laughing at me) and I find myself amazed by this whole experience. It's been the week of movement and it's always amazing to feel those first "kicks", "punches" and general movement. It's still not strong enough for Bryan to feel, but I find myself with my hand on my stomach all the time and just smiling as I'm reminded someone is growing bigger and stronger inside of me.

We have been in the fixing up mindset around here. I want to finish projects and start other projects...the largest is fixing up our front office/music/crap room...you know the room where you throw all the crap you don't know where it should go.  It's been a long week of finding permanent homes for all the crap in there so that I can make it into my nursery.  Both my kids are great sleepers, right now, and I have zero desire to mess them up with a screaming newborn...so the front room will become baby's room until I'm ready to combine 2 kids together. I wanted to paint the room, but will something simple and classic, that could easily be the office again once we do move baby. So we are painting horizontal lines in a high gloss the same color as the room (which is the same color as 98% of the rest of our house!) One day I might add color.

I'm participating in a 5K with 2 of my sisters this Saturday.  I'm just so excited I have enough energy to do that...something that never would have happened in my last 2 pregnancies. It's a color run, which excites me, the weather has a high of 85 degrees, which is shocking, and I'm with 2 of my favorite people, I LOVE having Maggie and Liz live so close that we can do stuff like this together. Life is good!