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)