Pregnancy Belly at Week 19

Volia! Our little baby boy likes to move up during the day and sink back down at night. This is me last Thursday (July 14th) at about mid-day. Usually when I wake up in the morning my baby bump is lower. He is moving around enough now to the point where I have figured out when its him moving and when its just me. It's definitely making being pregnant seem more realistic when I can feel the baby moving around.
Baby tends to move around more in the evenings and whenever Ryan is around. Knows his daddy and seems to favor him already...lol For example: I was lying down on the couch Friday night with my head on Ryan's lap and he was moving around quite a bit whenever Ryan touched my belly.

Dining Room Makeover

Last weekend (July 9th) Ryan did me a huge favor and painted our dining room. Bye bye ugly pink wallpaper and faded yellowing white trim, Hello midnight blue walls and bright white trim!

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Our Fourth of July Weekend

We had a good 4-day weekend. I say four because I came home sick on Friday and didn't go back into work until Tuesday afternoon, after the ultra sound appointment. So we were able to spend some much wanted time together. We didn't really do a whole lot due to it being really, really hot! The heat index was up in the 100's and I've been having enough trouble with the upper 80's and 90's. Heat is not my best friend right now. Saturday we spent about an hour in the yard doing clean up work and putting stuff away and that was about the extent of our outdoor activities for the weekend. Monday we spent most of the day indoors, again due to the heat and me not being able to tolerate it very well right now. I get sick from it pretty easy, which is why I went home on Friday from work. The office building was too hot for me to handle. Monday evening we sat outside for a little bit and watched neighbors shoot-off fireworks. We were going to go watch the City display at the visitor center, but neither one of us felt up to fighting the traffic and crowds to get down there this year and we could see most of them from our front yard anyway. Didn't take any pictures of fireworks this year either, we were too lazy.

Mainly we spent the whole weekend doing a Harry Potter movie marathon to get caught up on all the flicks before the new one came out on the 15th. SO yes in a matter of 4 days we got all seven "currently released on dvd" watched. We are not big movie theater goers,s owe didn't rush out to see the last one in theaters like the millions of other people did on the 15th. We love the movies don't get me wrong, but they are getting expensive and its soo much cheaper to have the patience to wait for it to come out to rent on dvd for a buck or two.

July 5th: Ultrasound Day

First off for those of you dying to see a pregnancy picture of me, here ya go. Finally showing a little bit, after weeks of people asking me if I was ever going to start showing. I kept thinking "I'm only __ weeks along in my 1st pregnancy, am I suppose to be showing?" LOL.

This was yesterday, technically I'm about 17.5 weeks along, considering they moved my due date up 11 days when we went in to the hospital on Tuesday.

Second: IT'S A BOY!
Ryan and I went to the hospital on Tuesday for my ultrasound and we got to "see" our little baby. They were able to tell us that indeed it was a boy...a very active baby boy! It's amazing that I am not feeling him move around in there yet with as much as he was moving around during the ultrasound. He was very cooperative for the nurse :)

I keep trying to upload a couple of the ultrasound pictures, but it wants to put them sideways which is bothering me, so I posted a few on my facebook page for those of you who are my friend on there. I will keep working on trying to get them posted up here when I have a bit more time and patience to make them post correctly :)