Update with pictures

Since my last update, Matt and I celebrated our 2nd Wedding Anniversary! We went out to dinner 2 weeks after the fact, but that's because I spent the majority of our anniversary painting the room for Baby Ancona, and that following weekend, we were finishing everything up. We decided to go to Michigan Ave and just wander around there for a while and then we went to Smoque for some awesome bbq and Sweet Mandy B's Bakery for desert, yumm.

As I said, the room is painted! I love it, which is a good thing after the many hours spent in there. The crib is set up, the chair is in the room, now we just need all the 'stuff' that a baby needs and we're set.

I have been feeling a lot of movement over the last week and a half. The movement has gone from a fluttery feeling - which I only felt once every few days, to a light tapping, bubbly type feeling. Matt has felt some of the light jabs, they aren't to strong yet - which is fine, I'll keep my non-bruised organs and rib feeling as long as possible. I have my 24 week check tomorrow, I am going to be meeting a different doctor in the practice. There are 5 that deliver, and they encourage you to meet all of them ahead of time. So far, I haven't met anybody new, the doctor I've seen the last 2 times, was my doctor before pregnancy.

Matt is headed to NYC next Saturday morning, to volunteer at the Marathon Expo and is then pacing the NYC Marathon Sunday, and flying home that night. He'll be pacing the 4 hour group, and is looking forward to the experience. It was an opportunity that he just couldn't pass up. I'll be staying home, I didn't want to fly 2 days in a row and then less then 2 weeks later to Florida. There are way to many germs out there and with the flu season being as bad as it is and hitting really hard early, I'm trying to limit my exposure.

We're headed to Tampa and Orlando, Florida on November 11th. We'll spend 3 days with Aunt Helen and Matt will do the Half Ironman World Championship and then we'll drive to Orland and spend 2 days at Sea World. It will be our last vacation, as the 2of us. I actually enter the 3rd Trimester while we are there, and that is when the flying restrictions start. A lot of airlines don't question it until about 32 weeks or so, but my doctors office recommends that you don't fly once your in your 3rd Trimester - due to the increase of swelling and discomfort.

Ok, here are the pictures :



We plan on hanging something, not sure what, over the dresser - which will also be the changing table.


We plan on adding something to this wall, and getting a different light.


My bump at 23 weeks and 3 days. (taken 10.24.09)

Half Way There!!!

Well, I'm just a few days over 20 weeks pregnant, which means that, I am half way there. Crazy. We have the crib, it is still in a box in the garage, but we have it. I have to finish organizing the room, there isn't much left to do at least, then it will be ready to have the crib assembled.

I had my 20 week appointment this morning - complete with ultrasound. Everything is right on schedule. I'm technically 20 weeks 3 days today, and the baby is measuring 20 weeks 5 days, and weighs 13 oz. The entire ultrasound was for measurements - brain, skull, femur bone, spine, heart, kidneys and bladder. Everything is looking good, and where it should be. The baby (no we didn't not find out the gender) has long legs, the tech must have said it about 7 times. The heart has all 4 chambers and we got to see it beating away at 154 bpm. The baby was laying face up, head on my left side, and folded in half, the knees were at the chin and the feet were over the head. I have told the baby several times now to stretch out and enjoy the room while you've got it, it's going to get snug in there fast. We did get to see the little feet and toes. As the ultrasound tech was trying to see the lower part of the spine, to get the measurements, the baby kept putting their hand in the way - either this baby has a great sense of humor already or some attitude.

I haven't even gotten to hold this little person yet and I am so in love. It is such an amazing experience, to see this little person, who is about the size of a pop can and know that they are yours. I get to have this little person grow inside of me until they are ready to enter this big world. After they are here, I get to experience the world through their eyes. How can you not be in love?

Speaking of love, Matt and I are about to celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary. The weather is slightly different this weekend - it is in the low 50s and rainy. There are times that it feels like just yesterday that we said "I do" and there are times that it feels like its been years. I Love You, Matt, thanks for asking me to be your wife, I couldn't imagine my life with out you in it. I cannot wait for this next year and all the changes it will bring. Here's to many more years!!!