Half way point!

20 weeks down, 20 to go! I'm beginning to wonder why people say the 2nd trimester is easier than the 1st. I have never been woken up more in the middle of the night or been more uncomfortable sleeping in my life...and I have a feeling this is only the beginning! Yikes! For the past two weeks I've been having pain on my right side that feels like I just got punched in the kidney (not that I've had direct experience with that). It took me a while to figure out that this is the new way my body has decided to let me know I have to go to the bathroom. Awesome! I had to learn the hard way that if I don't get up immediately, it's only going to get worse. Before this, I could just roll over and go back to sleep. This baby is having none of that! Unfortunately for Greg, if you blink too loudly, he'll wake up! So we're on a 2 hour schedule now. Every two hours, get up, go to the bathroom, get back in bed and try to get to sleep as fast as you can so you can at least have 2 hours of sleep. I guess this is just preparing us for waking up with the baby!

We went for our latest sonogram and found out that we're having a little girl! Yeah! The sonographer says she's "textbook" for her measurements. Greg can't believe that I'm not able to feel her crazy movements. She punches me, kicks me, rubs her eyes and of course waves. We might have a beauty queen on our hands with all the waving going on in there!

Always waving!

I think that I've been able to feel her move, but I'm still not sure if it's her or my UC. I'm going to my GI on Monday and hopefully he'll be able to give me insight into what is what.

I think the best thing about knowing the gender is being able to go shopping! Neither of us are huge fans of pink, so we've gone the green, yellow, purple route. We also get to think of names...which we haven't really done yet! Oops! But our friends and coworkers have been giving us many suggestions! So far we know that Charlotte, Cob and Spider are definitely out because of the last name! We're open to most others though!

20 weeks

This is what I'm looking like right now. My innie is becoming a flatie and it's getting challenging to tie shoes in standing.

In other news, we've finished a lot of projects at the lake house! Greg made a path down to the lake while I removed that awful wallpaper. Then we primed and texture painted one of the rooms! I really liked the painting! It reminded me of icing a cake! Don't worry, I refrained from tasting it! No pica disorders around here! We got a lot done last weekend and it's almost ready for people to come visit! Now we just need central heat and air. No biggie!