So, I have started feeling my little angel move around quite swiftly, like a ninja. Scott always claims that he's secretly a ninja and that this is baby ninja. Yes, it gets a little old when he explains why he left something out that he shouldn't have "because he's a ninja," but it still makes me laugh. I love that man!
We are 18 weeks along this week and at week 16 I started feeling like butterflies were fluttering around in my belly when I am lying down or in the car on my long treks to and from work. I realized that this wasn't gas and that it was indeed, the baby letting me know that my country music car karaoke wasn't necessary. Everyone has told me that when I feel my monkey move for the first time, it is such a beautiful and gratifying feeling. It makes you feel like there really is a human being growing in there and that it is ok and healthy. I can not explain this beautiful bond that I have with baby S right now. We talk all the time, I sing to him/her, I rub my belly and rock it back and forth at work when a low country song comes on, I let the water pound on my belly in the shower and can feel my angel dancing around in there like a true water baby, and when I eat watermelon or sweet tarts, you would think there's a dance party USA going on in there. It's hilarious!!!!!!
We only have 12 more days until we find out if this is a hamburger or a hot dog! I absolutely can not wait to find out if we'll be buying dresses and bonnets or cammo and baseball caps. Scott thinks that if it's a girl, she'll still be wearing pink cammo...we'll see about that!! I'm determined to buy tons of tutus and big gaudy bows though!! I will truly be happy about whatever it is that God decides to bless us with though. I hear that boys love their mamas like no other and that makes me so happy. I think about the next 12 days and how our lives will never be the same after this baby comes. Scott and I will have a whole new reason to live and our family is just now starting to grow and become what we've been dreaming about together for 12 years!! I guess it's a sort of parallel analogy. For 12 years we've dreamt and in 12 days, we'll have a whole new outlook on our future and a whole different level of connectivity. I am so incredibly lucky to have this life...
I can not wait to meet our little watermelon eatin' baby ninja!!
