22 weeks

It is weird to think I am already 22 weeks pregnant! Sometimes it is hard to believe I am pregnant at all! I feel like everything happened really fast. I was super ready to start a family, so I was a little confused that once I found out we were expecting I wasn't immediately bonded to our little peach. I sort of assumed that it would happen automatically, and almost felt like a bad person that it didn't. But after hearing that this is very normal from a lot of people, I calmed down and got lost in every day life.

I had virtually zero morning sickness. Minimal symptoms overall. I just felt super tired, but for anyone who knows me, I can sleep like no other, so nothing unusual there. I still haven't gained much if any weight, although my tummy and hips apparently didn't get the memo.

Everything changed after finding out we were having a girl. The switch flipped or something, and the bond came on super strong, at least for me. I think seeing her move around in there with little arms and little legs and being able to call her a she or her made everything real. Shortly after that, I felt her for the first time. It was weird because I felt her on the outside... not a little flutter, but a holy crap what is that bulge I feel pressing into my thigh kind of thing. Apparently she wasn't super thrilled with my bent over blow drying technique. (Hey, a girls got to get a little volume! Geez!) I ran to try to let Steve feel this super weird bulge in my belly, but my marathon from the bathroom to the bed jostled her right back it to squishy can't tell what is what land. I have felt a couple of 'was that a baby or was that my stomach' kind of movements down there, but I think I have too much padding to tell what is going on for sure!

After finding out Baby G was a little girl, I got super stressed. I had the cutest space themed nursery planned for Baby G when I was sure it was a boy. I had absolutely nothing in mind for a little girl. Eventually I kept coming back to animals and decided to go with that for her upstairs nursery which is like 5 states away from our bedroom, not to mention me and stairs don't mix. So, in the end, this little princess gets two nurseries. The only thing I know for sure about the downstairs nursery is that all of the furniture is coming from Ikea, beyond that I have changed my mind a hundred times.

So after our 20 week check-up week before last, everything looks good. We have bought all the major items for the downstairs nursery from Ikea (assembly is another story!) We have the dresser, changing pad and rug for upstairs and were super lucky to get a crib as a gift from my mom and stepdad which is on its way. Up next on the agenda is paint, and I have some big ideas on that I can wait to share!

xoxo,
Brooke