20 Weeks- Halfway through!

Yep, it's happening. She's growing. Just 2 weeks ago the maternity pants were slightly too large and now, despite having lost a pound since then, they're the only pants I can fit into in the gut area. Today I got a pair of maternity pants that are so comfortable I will be sad to give them up after pregnancy. Goodbye rubber banded buttons and zippers that only go up halfway and hello elastic, stretch waistbands! Life is good.

In other exciting news I can now feel the baby. The first time I felt her was the day I was 19 weeks along. At first the movements were scarce and light, but every couple of days they get stronger and more frequent. As I'm writing this I've been kicked just under the belly button twice. Sometimes they actually feel like little kicks, but mostly it feels like an eel is swimming around in there. I haven't heard anyone else describe it that way, but it makes sense to me.

Now that we're halfway through the pregnancy, Paul and I decided it's time to start figuring out what we need to make this baby at home so we went to Babies R Us on Saturday and registered. We're not completely done, but we've picked out all the important stuff and then some. Pretty soon we'll start on the nursery at which point I hope to have figured out how to post pictures on this thing.

Happy Easter and Spring!

FYI- This was actually posted on the 18th, not the 13th. That date was from an old draft.