Just a Quick One

It's a boy!! We found out on June 8th that our little baby is a little baby boy! We landed on the name Gunner Cullen Babb. Gunner because it's awesome, and we've both loved it for like a year or more. Cullen because it's a family name on Daniel's side of the family. And Babb....well duh, that should be obvious. Did you even need to ask on that one? Come on now... =)

He is REALLY starting to move around now. I can pretty much predict when he will be the most active these days. Daniel got to feel him kick for the first time on the 15th, and again today! My mom felt him jumping around yesterday. It's pretty neat to have other people feel him moving around too!

We (Daniel) painted the nursery this week (which was a chore), but it looks fantastic. I will probably just post a picture of it once it's finished instead of posting pic after pic of one or two things added at a time. It's a work in progress. My mom is making his bedding and we picked out the material this week and made a mock up of the quilt she is doing...I am SO excited! It's going to look stinking awesome and cute.

My belly is really starting to get big. I read that in the next month he will double in size, and I'm sure I will do some expanding as well. I got some maternity shorts this weekend and I totally love them. They're also the only pair of shorts I own. Sad. I hate showing my legs, but I just got to the point of wanting to be cool more than caring what other people think about my pale fat legs. They can get over it!

Our third anniversary is on the 30th, and to celebrate we're spending a day in Tulsa, cause that's where all the fun is like The Cheesecake Factory, Babies R Us, and an aquarium. Ha! Not exactly sure of what all we are doing that day, but too much cheesecake is for sure on the agenda....ahhhh I am very excited about that.

I'll end with this week's "Bump Shot"!

Halfway There!

Today marks 20 weeks in my pregnancy! WHAT?!? I can't believe it. 20 weeks down, 20 to go. That's hard to believe. About three weeks ago I felt the baby move for the first time! It was so weird, but it was for SURE a kick. I've been feeling movement every day since then! It's pretty exciting. It likes to move more after I eat. At first I thought it was just because of the fact that my digestive system would start doing it's thing and making noise and things would start moving around, so it would kind of wake baby up, but I later read that eating raises your blood sugar a bit and gives baby a surge of energy! Pretty neat. No wonder it's moving a lot - I can't stop eating now! It seems that my appetite has returned with a vengance. I eat a lot these days. Which feels good to me since I hardly ate anything in the beginning months.

My last doctor's appointment went well and that day I scheduled the appointment for the big ultra sound where we'll find out the gender! That is THIS TUESDAY!!!! Oh I cannot wait. It seems like we've had to wait for ages for this day to arrive, but it's only been a month! What a long month. My belly is pretty sizable now, so I'm anxious to see how much I weigh. Last appointment I found out that since our positive pregnancy test, I have lost 10 pounds. I asked my doctor if that was ok, and she assured me that gaining weight is good for people who are at an average weight for their height. I was overweight when I got pregnant (still am of course), so it's ok that I am losing for now, but I should start gaining a little soon. The baby is getting bigger so I will be getting bigger. but losing a little weight is not a bad thing for me right now.

We signed up for our child birthing class this month!! It starts the first Monday in August, and will be every Monday for six weeks, except the class that falls on Labor Day will be moved to Tuesday. I am excited about that big step. We bought a changing table last weekend, and Daniel tore down our computer room! He was pretty excited about the changing table. It needed to be done though. We went from two computers to one, and moved it and a couple of other "office" things into the guest room so we could start the nursery when we wanted to.

Big changes have been happening! Things are going to get more exciting from here! We find out the gender on Tuesday and I am so looking forward to it! It's SO amazing to watch the baby move around on the ultra sound! Oh, and we don't have a preference on the gender, we'll be excited either way!