20 Weeks!

We are halfway there!  I am looking more and more like I ate a baby :)

How many weeks?  20 weeks

How do I feel?  I can feel the baby kicking throughout the day which is a really cool feeling.  He kicks a lot at night when I finally sit down.  There are some kicks that are so hard that I think Brian can feel them, and he actually was able to feel one kick last night!  I love those little kicks though and looking forward to feeling them even more in the coming months.

Cravings?  Shamrock shakes - but mostly because they are in season!

Weight gain?  I have not weighed myself since last week, but my work pants still fit and my belly is getting bigger.  I just had my last session with my personal trainer so now it is up to me to make myself go to the gym and work out.  I went on Friday night with Brian (thank goodness for his positive influence) and felt pretty good with my own cardio and strength training.  Brian also just treated me to a brand new workout outfit from lululemon, and it may make me excited to go to the gym!

(Brian writing here) This week we started undertaking some of our "home improvement" initiatives. To kick off the improvement, I "worked" from home on Friday. Between work emails, I unboxed the changing table and put it together! Yes, I know what you're all thinking (who did I have help me with it?) but I was able to figure it all out by myself, clean up all the little pieces of foam padding, put it in the guest bedroom, and in record time! When Shelley asked what I had been doing all day, I talked about work and then said I had been looking at some of the baby clothes we bought. When she opened the door to the nursery, she saw the changing table for the first time and a huge smile came across her face!

Over the past few weeks, the guest bedroom had become a storage area for pretty much everything. Boxes, baby clothes, bags, a pair of dress pants that I need repaired since I split the butt seam at work (true story), pretty much anything and everything. On Sunday we tackled it and more. We started with the closet and removed all of our possessions to make room for baby stuff. We also tackled under our bed and various storage areas. We made piles of trash, donations, and for our storage unit in the basement. We put two paint samples on the wall (one we really liked, one was too blue) and we set up the Graco Pack and Play that was generously donated to us by one of Shelley's Roycemore School families. The P and P looks great and got me really excited! In addition we did some shopping for below the changing table storage baskets, a play area rug, and some additional paint samples.

Next weekend I took off from working at the bar. Our plan is clean up our basement storage area and organize it so we can store the guest bed, put the crib together, and continue getting our apartment ready for the baby. There is plenty to do and hopefully our weekly supply of delivery pizza and shamrock shakes continues to fuel us!