5 months down....4 months to go!

Wow has it really been five months?? We are officially in our 6th month and have 4 to go and then our little dude will be here. He is still little dude to us. One day I will have my mind set on my favorite name and then the next day I don't know if it is my favorite anymore. I think we will decide what to name him when he is born :) Everyone always says that it is easier anyways because once you see them you just kinda know what fits! One thing I do know is that I think he is going to have a lot of hair...I have always thought that because Mark and I both had quite a bit of hair when we were born, but also I had a dream about him the other day. It was pretty crazy and cool....and if our baby is as cute as the one in my dream we are going to be able to win a lot of cute baby contests! 

Little dude weighs a little over 1 pound now. He is about 11 inches long and his hearing is starting to get very sensitive. He can hear us even more and might even move when there are any loud noises going on. I can't wait for our ultrasound in 2 weeks when we can see him again! Especially now that he is a little mover! 

I have been trying to keep a pregnancy journal of things that happen as the week goes by or feelings that I am having. Here is something I wrote in my journal a couple days ago: 

January 13, 2012

Last night was so funny. I had decided that I wanted to hear the heartbeat so we got the monitor that we borrowed out. As soon as we started using it little dude started attacking the heart rate monitor! haha He was kicking, punching, elbowing…no matter where we put it he would kick it and it was so funny because you could hear it. It sounded like a water bubble or something. We just laughed and laughed for like 3 minutes as he kicked it. Then I told Mark that since little dude was being so active he should try to feel him moving. He got to feel him a lot last night and it was so cool! Now instead of me asking Mark if he felt that Mark says “was that a movement?” and every single time he asked it was. Little dude is just getting strong.

Just now I took a bath. While I was in the tub I actually saw my belly move for the first time. It was really cool to see. The best part was one time when my bellybutton was out of the water but had water in it little dude kicked and the water moved like Jurassic park. There were a few times where I felt like the movement was going from one place to another. It was really cool. I didn’t want to get out of the tub. When he is moving I feel like it is his way of saying hello! He is letting me know he is in there! My grandma colleen was saying on the phone that anyone who thinks that the baby isn’t really alive until he takes is first breath is so wrong. I agree with her. Ever since I knew we were pregnant I loved our baby and was so excited but when he started moving it was incredible how that love changed. I feel a connection with him and just feeling him move makes me so excited to meet 

him! It all became a million times more real when I felt that first movement :D 

It is now the 15th and almost every time he is awake and moving now I see my stomach move. Yesterday I had a paper resting on my stomach and he would kick and move the paper it was so funny. There was also a moment where he pushed out and kinda stayed there for a minute so my belly was kinda jutting out on one side a little but...that made us laugh! 

I seem to be having what is called round ligament pain now and I have to be careful rolling over in bed because if I go to fast I get a sharp pain! Its because the ligaments in my belly holding up my growing uterus are stretching so they hurt sometimes because they are so stretched out and not as strong. It can happen sometimes too if you are really active but it is more like a dull pain that just kinda stays. It happened today when I was walking home from church and I am hoping that it won't get too bad because I want to be able to keep exercising. I just barely got back into the swing of it! Its okay though because it just means that my body is doing what it should...it is just a new development in my pregnancy condition :) 

We have been busy trying to register for baby stuff...it is so hard! There are SO MANY THINGS to think about when you are trying to prepare for your new arrival. Babies need lots of things you would never think of. And then sometimes the lists of things stores give you to register for have a lot of useless things on them that you don't really need. It is taking a lot of research but it is also a lot of fun. I love looking for things and picking out my favorites...especially clothes. I just love baby stuff and how tiny all of it is.