Small Talk

After my last doctor's appointment, I went home and started working on crunching some numbers for our finances. I've never been great at math and the intense concentration must have been just the right motivation for the baby to go "hey! it's getting kinda tense in here!"because I felt the baby move for the first time :) 

At first I stopped and gave the look that I had just been crowned Miss America...

no wait thats labor...

here we go...

But I wrote it off because it could've been anything. Then once it kept happening (only sometimes stronger) I knew it was the real deal. The cool thing about it is that most women don't feel their babies move until around 20 weeks. I started feeling mine at 16 weeks. This can only mean one of two things...Olympic soccer player or break dancer...maybe a chef since it really likes to move around the time I'm eating (maybe it's just taking after it's father..."FOOD!? YEEES!!!")

Either way it's a really exciting feeling. I've always wondered what this would feel like and I can best describe it as a small goldfish wiggling every now and then...and when it's stronger it feels like a piece of popcorn popping. 

Every now and then I feel it from the outside when I place my hand on my stomach. After many attempts, Isaiah felt it with me last night. Before last night, I kept taking his hand and placing it on my stomach and going "feel!" when I think the baby's moving a lot. He'll place his hand on my stomach all excited, the baby will kick about 3 times, and he's still be looking at me like "tell it to kick, I'm ready". 

My pregnancy app told me this past week (17 weeks) that the baby was the size of a turnip (we definitely did not eat any turnips this week...I'd apologize to the baby but I think it's going "Lord bless you mother!") and at 16 weeks it said get ready for a growth spurt...

I've gained a new cup holder...I'd say that's pretty darn productive. 

p.s.) I seriously ate lunch like this today

Fun Fact of the Day: I keep getting asked if Isaiah and I have come up with any names for the baby yet...when we discuss it, this is what ends up happening...

Alex: "how about Andrew?"

Isaiah: "nah...Lebron?"

Alex: "hah! ok seriously, Erin?"

Isaiah: "Dwayne?"

Alex: "no really...Elizabeth?"

Isaiah: "I like Thurston" 

Alex: "Isaiah!!"

Isaiah: "no that's my name...Reginald!?"

Alex: "we're not naming our baby Reginald!"

Isaiah: "you're right, he'll get his butt kicked...G Money"

Alex: "THATS NOT EVEN A NAME!!"

Isaiah: "Knickerbocker!!!"

Alex: "...ok this isn't real"