Baby Love: Week 22

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 22 weeks
Size of Baby: About 11 inches long and weighs almost 1 pound. Baby is about the length of a spaghetti squash.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 6 1/2 pounds

Maternity Clothes: Jeans sitting lower, shirts getting tighter. But not this week.

Gender: Boy!

Movement: This kid is all over the place! I have started to notice that he's very active right after dinner, when Daddy, Kaiser, and I are in the living room playing. Maybe he hears all of our voices at once and gets excited? Now when I lay down and watch, I can pretty consistently see his movements, too. It's a great form of entertainment!

Food Cravings: Fresh fruit. I literally consumed at least a pound of red grapes yesterday. And my lunch every day consists of sliced pear, nectarine, pineapple, or kiwi over a big bowl of cottage cheese.

What I Miss: Being able to carry Kaiser around and do everyday things like bending down to clean/pick up toys without getting winded. Can't imagine how I'll be huffing and puffing in a couple of months!

Sleep: Had a rougher time sleeping this week. A couple of nights I woke up and couldn't get back to bed for about two hours. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that once I wake up and start thinking about things, I just can't turn my mind off!

Symptoms: Lots of potty breaks. Lots. And some more instances of heartburn.

Best Moment This Week: Hearing Kaiser start to say "Baby Brother (Budder)". He has to be prompted to say it, but it's still just so cute. He sees my bare belly a lot more now when I sit/lay down periodically during the day to see the little guy move. I often ask, "Can you say 'hi' to our baby?", and he walks over with a big grin on his face, pats and kisses my tummy, and says, "Hi, Baby". Then usually it's "Bye-bye, Baby", and back to whatever it was that he was doing before. :)

What I Am Looking Forward To: I know I said it last week, but I'm looking forward to soaking up summertime sun and fun with this stud...

Mr. Cheese "hep"ing Mommy with her "pee-shah"!