There's an alien in there. June 1, 2009 from Amy on Vimeo. I'm laying on my left side and she's pushing out on my right.

Tomorrow I will be 30 weeks.  It's hard to believe that we only have 10 weeks to go!  I still get the overwhelming feeling of having to get so much stuff done prior to her arrival, but I know it'll all work out.  We finally started on the soon-to-be nursery.  Robbie primed it and think we've decided to paint it yellow, so once that is done we can start putting stuff in there.  Exciting! Everything on the baby front is going well.  My glucose test came back normal, so that's good, and as to date I've gained approximately 20 pounds.  I'm still amazed when people tell me they either didn't know I was pregnant (um, come on, can't you see the protruding belly) or they can't believe I'm as far along as I am.  I guess we all feel bigger than we are.  For those of you that don't know (which is probably nobody), but I entered a Miss Mom-To-Be contest through the local radio station.  The only thing required to enter was submitting a picture.  Easy enough, right?  They then picked 25 semi-finalists, which I was one of.  That's when I hit everyone up for their votes.  Little did I know they would chose 6 people to be the finalists (I presume based on number of votes) and then they are going to have an on-air pageant.  Um, yeah!  I think they'll choose the finalists in the next couple of days, so we'll see what happens. Also, I've finally made a big decision as far as diapering the baby.  This has been weighing heavily on my mind, so I'm glad to have come to a resolution.  We're going to try cloth diapers.  As goofy as it sounds, I feel like it's my responsibility to the environment.  I don't want to just go straight to disposables because they are easy and convenient.  When I read about the numbers of disposables that end up in the landfills as well as all the pee and poop that is there, seeping into the ground, it really bothers me.  Am I saying that there is no way that I will EVER use a disposable on my child?  Absolutely not, I'm just saying that if I don't try out cloth diapers, I'm going to be really disappointed in myself. Finally, I'm looking forward to a busy week full of fun with the golf tournament, my Dad's BIG birthday and our first baby shower.

Today is the beginning of my 24th week of pregnancy.  The baby is growing and so is the belly.  Up to this point, the pregnancy has been great.  There was no morning sickness in the first trimester, only a little bit of nausea if I didn't eat, but as long as I kept the food coming, I was a-ok.  The second trimester has been pretty uneventful too, which we're very thankful for.  We've had two ultrasounds and everything looks good.  The doctors think our little munchkin is going to be a girl, but they couldn't say 100%.  Apparently she's a little camera shy and had her legs tightly crossed and even had a hand blocking the view part of the time.  They did say they thought they saw "girl parts" though.  The picture below is from our 12 week ultrasound.  It's the best picture of her that we've received. I've been able to feel her moving since about 19 weeks.  It's such an amazingly strange feeling.  I'm looking forward to Robbie getting to feel her move around a bunch too.   We've still got to do the nursery, pick out a name, attend a few classes and get things ready around the house for our July arrival.  So exciting. So that's the update on where we stand.  We'll (I'll) try to do a better job of keeping this updated in the future so you can all enjoy the last three months of the pregnancy with us.