Sunday, July 8, 2012

22 Weeks and counting

Hello Baby Girl!  It is now July 8, and we only have about 4 months until we meet you!  Your daddy and I went and picked up your crib yesterday, decided on your stroller, and are now wrapping our heads around the biggest task we face this month. . . . registering for all of your baby needs.  But this entire process just makes us more and more excited because it means we are getting closer and closer to holding you in our arms!  Your Nana and Auntie Sara came and helped me at Storkland the other day to start narrowing down some of the bigger items we will need for you.  I just can't wait for you to meet all of the people who already love you :).

You have been moving around like cRaZy lately!  It is so fun to be able to feel you kicking (or I guess you could be punching, too :) from the outside as well as the inside.  You are quite the little mover.  Your daddy thinks he might have felt you on the 4th of July, while we were laying in bed after an entire day of celebrating!  But you seem to get a little shy once he places his hand on my belly to feel you, so he is antsy to be able to feel you consistently.  I have a feeling it won't be much longer.  Last night, Sara and I went to see Spiderman and I got a white cherry Icee.  You LOVED it.  You were bouncing all over the place in my belly!  It made me giggle throughout the entire movie.  I don't know that you loved the fireworks, though, earlier this week.  On July 3rd, we went out to Lake Hiwassee to the Schnebel's lake house.  The entire lake is pretty small, and every 4th of a July it is like they have a competition to see who shoots off the most fireworks.  We were posted up on the Schnebel's dock, which was out over the water, and there were people shooting off HUGE fireworks all around us, even right over our heads!  Then, out of nowhere, Bailey's husband, Jacob, started shooting fireworks off of the dock we were sitting on!!! The sound was incredible, I thought your Nana was going to have a nervous breakdown (you will learn that even though she loves America, she is not a fan of fireworks :).  I just kept laughing, partly at your Nana and partly because it scared me every time a huge 'BOOM' would go off.  But you, lady baby, did not seem to be a fan of loud noises, you did not kick the entire time we were there out on that dock with explosives going off all around us!  I guess we will see if that is true next summer ;).

 21 weeks
22 weeks 1 day