Hush Little Baby: 18 Weeks

We have had a really nice week visiting with friends and doing lots of baby research. Thanks to the recommendation of seasoned parents we bought the Baby Bargains book and I highly recommend it to any parents-to-be. It is a consumer reports guide for all things baby! We are trying to nail down our choices and have things picked out so when we find out the gender we are ready to go. On Sunday we went furniture shopping for the first time. We got a lot of information and we're getting closer to figuring out what we want for the baby. Since furniture can take 10-12 weeks to be delivered, we hope to place an order sometime in mid-February. Shockingly, that's not too far away! Hope everyone had a great weekend :)

For my photos I have been trying to take pictures in the same jeans for the past few weeks. Well, this will most likely be the last week you will be seeing these. I don’t usually wear these pants as I can barely shut them let alone sit down, but today just putting them on was quite difficult. Ah, goodbye jeans. I’ll miss you, but I’m determined we will meet again someday…

Pregnancy: 18 weeks
Weight Gain: Decided to wait until my next appointment for a weight check. I feel like I'm packing on the pounds so I'll probably be up 5 pounds or so.
Sleep: I've been sleeping a lot better this week, but having issues staying off my back and getting comfortable. I may have to invest in a body pillow soon. I've been doing so much research on baby gear that I've starting dreaming about shopping and registering.
Gender: We will find out two weeks from tomorrow! I finally gave in and decided I should at least look at some girl stuff so that I'm not totally shocked if there's a little ballerina in there vs. my assumed baseball star.
Cravings: Nothing really
Feeling: Good
Health: I have felt really good this week, just getting really tired by 9-10pm. We are notorious for going to bed way too late, like 1am late. This week I have been falling asleep in the chair and my lovely husband decides not to wake me up until after 12am! Hopefully he'll just start moving me to bed sooner :)
Movement: Yes! Yes! Yes! I'll write a post so I can fill you in on the details.
Belly Button: In. The below photo may be odd to some/most of you, but I had to give you a visual of the changing button. The 1st photo - 4 weeks and the 2nd photo - 18 weeks. Ignore the difference in skin color, I promise they are both me.