Our Baby Girl should be roughly one pound!!! Woohoo—a milestone! Baby Girl is also making more sense of the world as she develops the sense of touch starting this week. Baby Girl could also have some hair on her head but at this point since hair has no pigment it is bright white. My mom told me my great-grandmother, Mamaw, use to say that if you had heartburn then your baby was going to be born with a head of hair. Let’s see if this holds true because I have killer heartburn that just seems to be getting worse (at least this week).

My fingers have started to swell slightly, which is common. Therefore, I took our wedding bands to get inspected and re-polished with white gold. I figured this would be a great opportunity to do so and then when we get them back they will be like brand new!!

My stomach is growing…and starting on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 I started feeling our baby!! I wasn’t sure if that is what I was feeling but in the evenings and/or early mornings I have been feeling the same sensation (for the most part) when I am relaxed so I have concluded its Baby!! I’m so excited!! At this point it is not painful at all and just fills me full of love!! I love feeling her move!

The baby room is started! I know I am early but when am I known to wait until the last minute? The decorations are started but not complete! We painted and put flowers on the wall (some paint, some stick on and some 3-D), a tree full of birds and butterflies, and started the pink picket fence. I am hoping to get the picket fence completed by the end of the week so then we can set the furniture up in the room. The bookcase and dresser are also in the process of getting fresh paint on them. By Sunday the goal is to have all the painting down low complete, the furniture that needs painted finished, and all the furniture moved into the room. Then I will have two large walls left to touch up the base paint and decorate but I am fine doing this little by little in the next few months!! I personally think it is turning out really cute and super girly!!

I had another sonogram on Thursday, May 5, 2011 with Dr. Darby. Bryan and my Mom got to come to the doctor’s appointment too so it made it extra special. Everything looked good. They re-examined all the baby’s body parts and looked at the heart again and as far as they can tell everything is right on track and normal. The baby is still a girl, which is GREAT because otherwise a little boy would have lots of pink to wear and a room that is working its way to being super girly! I was relieved when baby still had its ‘girly’ parts. Baby Girl weighed about 1 pound 3 ounces and her heartbeat was 150. Therefore, the doctor’s visit when great and everything seems to be good! I don’t have another sonogram scheduled but I bet I will have a least one more towards the end of the pregnancy to get Baby Girl’s weight and do a final checkup before delivery.

Another week almost down (the weeks pass so darn fast)!! Pretty soon we will get to meet our Angel for the first time!

Week 22: Front Profile

22 Weeks Pregnant

Big Belly at Week 22

Belly, Week 22

Week 22 Belly

Baby Girl is Growing at 5 1/2 months!

Our Baby Girl at 22 Weeks (My thoughts exactly!!)

Sonogram at 22 Weeks, May 5, 2011: Face Picture

Sonogram at 22 Weeks: Profile Pictures

Sonogram at 22 Weeks: Another Profile Picture

It's Still A Girl at the 22 Weeks Sonogram!! Yippie!!

The sonogram pictures still aren't the greatest because our Baby Girl doesn't want to cooperate to get a nice profile picture. She stays curled up in a ball with her head tucked away and hidden. I guess we aren't going to get a good sonogram profile picture like some get but oh well. I decided she wants to keep her pretty looks a secret until we meet her for the very first time!! She is already a stinker but a perfect little stinker!!