A much needed long weekend (22 weeks)

Happy Memorial Day weekend!  This long weekend couldn't have come at a better time.  My week in New Jersey drained me and it was topped off with a 10 hour day at the airport Thursday trying to make it home.  I finally made it home around midnight Thursday and I think the baby was just as happy as I was to be home.  As soon as I laid down, he started kicking and flipping around in my belly.  He was really busy in there last week...the most active he's been since I've been able to feel him.

We have lots of fun planned for the weekend!  We're grilling with our friends, Dana and Ben tonight.  They're in the process of buying a house that is literally 3 doors down from us and we couldn't be more excited.  Dana and I think that we need to have a sit down meeting with the boys to enforce some rules before they move in.  More to come on this after said meeting occurs.

Brian is golfing tomorrow morning and I'm going to treat myself to a prenatal massage.  Then my hippie feet and I are going to get a pedicure.  Tomorrow evening we're grilling out with friends in Roswell, Cessy and Dave.  They have an adorable little 2 year old (Peyton) who is obsessed with Brian...so cute.  And they're expecting another little one two weeks after we're due.

And Monday we're heading over to Erin and Joey's for a pool day!  They're also expecting a little boy about 4 weeks before we're due.  It's fun having so many friends pregnant at the same time.  Misery loves company.  Haha.

Busy weekend!  And on top of all that - Brian started painting the nursery today.  He informed me that I was not allowed to help.  And not because of the paint fumes being harmful to Baby Mac, but because he "knows how crappy of a painter I am".  Love him.

Here's my week 22 belly picture as promised.  I've managed to gain 13 lbs so far.  I wish I could say that it's all in my belly, but it appears to have distributed itself evenly.

Hope you all enjoy your weekend!  xoxo

Hands off my belly, lady! (21.5 weeks)

As you know, Brian and I are expecting our first baby in September!  I wish we would have started this blog earlier, but better late than never.  Since we're so far away from a lot you (our family and close friends), we figured this would be a good way to provide updates on "Baby Mac".

We found out a few weeks ago that we're having a boy!  Brian can attest to the fact that this unborn child of ours owns more clothing than I do already.  That's one of the dangers of finding out the gender before birth I guess.  I just can't get over how cute ALL of the clothing at Baby Gap is.  For the record, I've ceased purchasing anymore clothing until after the showers. :)

So, this week I'm in New Jersey for work.  I'm only able to travel for 9 more weeks, so I'm trying to fit all of my visits in before I'm put on a ground stop.  It's been an interesting week here so far.  I come up here often, so the team at the Distribution Center has gotten to see my baby bump grow.  Today, one of the ladies that I don't typically interact with discovered my pregnant belly and did the unthinkable - she said "oh, there's a baby in there" and started petting my belly.  While it's taken me a little while to get used to people I know touching my belly (which I'm now ok with by the way) - a perfect stranger is a different story.  I read an article awhile back to prepare me for this very thing.  The article suggested such things as petting their belly back or asking them to buy you dinner before they feel you up.  I did neither.  I just froze, smiled, and slowly backed away.  My goal for the remainder of the pregnancy is to NOT be touched by any more strangers.  5 hours down, 19 weeks to go!

I posted some of our ultrasound pictures below so you can see how much Baby Mac has grown over the weeks.  He's gone from looking like a gummy bear to resembling a small human.  It's a crazy feeling to know that this little guy is growing in my belly.

The one above is from our 8 week ultrasound.  It was so cool seeing him for the first time.  This was the first time we had been to the doctor since finding out we were pregnant, so it was a huge relief to know that everything with the pregnancy was progressing normally.

This next one is from the 12 week ultrasound. It's crazy how much he grew in only 4 weeks!

And this one is from our 20 week (and final) ultrasound.  As long as there aren't any complications, they won't do anymore ultrasounds.

Well, that's all I have for today.  I'll be back in the next couple of days with a week 22 update and belly picture!

xoxo