22 weeks

It's been a bit longer than I had hoped before another baby post.... but better late than never is the "blog theme" I'm running with this month. :) Jared, baby, and I are doing awesome, and we are so thankful to have a healthy, (very) bouncy, little one we know is growing away in there! 

Although we are not finding out the gender of baby, we had a great 20 week "halfway" appointment, and are so thankful we got to see the development and progress that baby has made. As of right now, I'm measuring about a week ahead (which, apparently doesn't mean that much) but the nurse did comment that our baby has long limbs..... haha. So we'll see what that means. Good eater baby? Earlier baby? Bigger baby? I'm trying not to think about the latter... we are just so thankful that he/she is getting good grub in there :) 

We are really enjoying this stage of the 2nd trimester. I definitely popped right around week 20, and noticing more growth it seems (sometimes) each day. I'm very thankful that I've had great energy and great sleep so far in this trimester, and aside from a few bouts of nasty round ligament pain, it has been smooth sailing, and I couldn't be more grateful. We had a phenomenal long weekend in New York City two weeks ago (post coming tomorrow), and although it might have been adrenaline, we walked about 33 miles in 3 days, and baby had no issues! What a trooper. That's the beauty of the 2nd trimester that everyone talks about.

Highlight of our week (aside from Christmas and this wonderful family time we are having right now) has been that Jared felt the baby for the first time! I had been noticing the stronger movement and it was so exiting to be able to feel it on the "outside" rather than just the inside! I can tell with these stronger movements how it is going to be difficult to fall asleep sometimes... although I'm still having no problems with that right now... when the baby gets going I know it's only going to be a matter of time. 

Right now we are in the early stages of staring to register, and finalize the bigger items like car seat/stroller, etc. that we want, and we actually purchased our crib a few days ago on a killer sale! First baby purchase and we made it a good one! We both love it and although it will be awhile before we start setting anything up, it was kind of fun to bring it into the house and think about getting the room put together.
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It was kind of crazy this Christmas thinking of how different our lives are going to look next year at this time. Although it was our last Christmas together just the two of us, we know how much better adding another will be, and we cannot wait! 

Happy 22 weeks, baby J! We love you so much!