i cannot believe that we are beyond the half way point...ALREADY! it's crazy to me how fast the weeks are flying by suddenly. but whats even more amazing is how active you are becoming! you sure do love to dance around little baby. and i love feeling your movements inside me. i have to say though, your daddy is becoming quite discouraged because he hasn't actually had the pleasure of feeling you kick yet. I'm not sure how he hasn't, since i can feel you nearly all day long...but you are so comfy deep inside my belly, many of your kicks don't quite make it to the surface i guess! you should know though, the closer we get to your birth, the more and more we have to be ok with the idea of sharing you! i cant keep you to myself forever :)
i have discovered this week that your sense of sound seems to be fully functioning. whenever i turn on the coffee grinder at work you do a little dance until the very second i turn it back off! I'm not sure if that means you like it or you hate it, but either way, it puts a smile on my face pretty early in the morning! i also have outgrown nearly every sweatshirt i own and spent a few days this week wearing one of your dads shirts! the heartburn has been coming and going, we have good days and bad. the back pain is settling in for the long haul, especially on the nights when i wake up laying on my back! i think you have found comfort somewhere near a nerve in my lower right side because i often get a numbing sort of pain in my right thigh! the winter weather and stretching of my skin is making my belly quite itchy, but your brothers put much love and effort into rubbing lotion all over your growing space! they think they are doing it for you, so someday, be sure to thank them!
i think we may have also settled on your potential names! well, incase you might be a girl, we have had your name picked out for quite a while! but in the event that you may join in the brood of boys, with your brothers, we needed to come up with a name that we loved as much as we love theirs! and im not going to lie, it wasnt easy...there were some that sounded ok, but we didnt love them. then we thought we found the perfect name, until we were told what its true italian translation was - our minds were quickly made up that Vitelli would not be your name. we just couldnt see naming our baby "herd of cows"!! but i think we have come to a final conclusion and so far we have gotten wonderful reactions to both the boy and girl choices, so the rest is up to you!! you are the one that will make the ultimate decision!
as for you and your personal developments, you apparently are learning and practicing swallowing. you have grown to weigh nearly 3/4 of a pound and you are about the length of a full size carrot (10.5 inches) you also have been busy developing your eyelids and growing some eyebrows! so many of the tiny details that will make you who you are! and pretty soon your biggest accomplishments with be putting on weight, growing nearly a pound per week until you are big enough to join us on the outside of your well known comfort zone!
and so we continue, on the downward slope towards the finish line...counting down the days until you are in my arms!!
i love you so much baby
millions
~ mommy
waist = 37 inches!
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