21 Weeks

So, it has been a month since my last profile picture. In that time I have been to the doctor again and heard Georgia's heartbeat again. I also got my glucola for my next appointment when I'll have a glucose test. In even better news, Shawn has felt Georgia moving and is very excited about that. He didn't like to admit it, but he was jealous that I could feel her and he couldn't. Now he loves to keep his hand on my tummy to see if anything happens. She is moving around a lot more now, or at least I feel her a lot more. Also, she seems to not be a morning person, kinda like me. She moves around more in the afternoon and at night. So far, she isn't big enough to keep me awake at night with movements, so we'll have to see how that progresses.

In other, non-baby related news, flowers and plants are starting to look good. The irises have long since bloomed, but other things are happening now too.

This is an ornamental pepper plant we got at the plant sale the Botanical Garden has each year. I had seen them in the Botanical Garden before and had wanted some, so I was excited that they went on sale this year. They all started out yellow, but have slowly started changing colors.



Last year we made a bigger "garden" in the back yard for the veggies, but then the plants just didn't do anything. So, we went smaller this year with just one tomato plant. And to change things up we put it in a planter and stuck it in the front yard. It looks really good and already has lots of little tomatos on it.



Next, because I am a Tiger, I got tiger lilies a long time ago. They have spread and now I have several. They are really pretty and the only orange flower I have had so far. I planted some orange calla lillies, but they haven't bloomed yet, so we'll see how they do.



So, the end of May means the end of AWANAs at church. Since AWANAs will start shortly before my due date in the fall, I will not be returning for the forseeable future. Here is a picture of me and my sister-in-law after the awards ceremony.



Before going to church that night I took my profile picture for week 21. As you can see, I am bigger.



In other news, Shawn has looked around on the internet at various ultrasound pictures and has decided that Georgia is cuter than all the other babies he has seen. I never really thought that babies looked that different on ultrasound pictures until I saw a few more recently, and you can really tell a difference in some babies. But of course, I think that Georgia will be amazingly adorable. I can't wait to see what she will look like, and what color hair she will have. The funny thing is, Shawn and I look so different from each other there is no telling what our babies will look like. I mean really, I am pasty white with dark blond hair and blue eyes. He is really dark skinned with black hair and brown eyes. I'm just hoping that Georgia will be able to go outside for more than five minutes without getting sunburned. We shall see in the fall what she will look like.

Baby updates

First, this is my profile from a week and a half ago. At 17 weeks I hit the mark where sleeping had become a little harder. I get hotter at night and I have problems trying to get comfortable. As a result, I am skipping the few tv shows that I stayed up for past 10pm and am going to bed earlier. While it still takes a little while to get to sleep, actually being in bed earlier gives me more time to sleep.



Now, at 18 weeks, I went to have THE ultrasound. And it was great! Our baby was pretty cooperative for the most part. When the woman tried to get a closer look at the heart it took a long time cause the baby was being so wiggly. But other than that, the baby measured on target and looks healthy (no cleft palate, the tummy has closed around the cord, no thickening of the neck, the nasal bone was the right shape, and so on). The first thing I said when I got in the room was that we did want to know what the sex was. And the baby was a trooper and we got to find out almost right away!

This was the first thing we saw after the baby came into focus. Such a cute little profile.


Then, she went for the money shot and we found out we are having a little girl!



When she was done doing all her measuring and checking out all the things she needed to see, she went back to the profile. The baby kept putting both her hands to her face, and then one thumb got put in her mouth. So we have a thumb sucker already!



Now, before we even got pregnant we had started talking about names. By the time we went to the doctor's office for the first time we had names picked out for a girl and for a boy. I will wait until we have a boy to reveal that name, but the girl's name we picked out was Georgia Elise. Now, there is a long background for the girl's name. I have been thinking of baby names almost since I was in high school. Now, the boy name, Shawn threw out the window almost right away because the first name was so common in his family that he didn't want to use it. But the girl's first name has always been the same. It was my dad's grandmother's name. She was named Georgia Ann. I loved the name Georgia and thought it was so pretty. I have heard from people that thought it was a little old fashioned, but I figured it was better to be old fashioned than to have a trendy name that will be so common. We went through a long process of finding a middle name that sounded right with Georgia. For some reason I got stuck on the letter E (I thought that a name that started with E would sound good with Georgia). Then I found Elise, and it sounded perfect. It is a shortened form of Elizabeth, and it means consecrated to God. So it sounded pretty and the name had a nice meaning.