Get out of mah belly

Here we are, a few days short of 16 weeks, and I’m finally feeling better! For the last week or so, I’ve been feeling nauseous occassionally, but haven’t actually been sick but once or twice and have only suffered mild headaches. I’m still tired, though! I better not get too used to going to bed at 9:00PM and sleeping straight through until 7:00AM, even if the pregnancy allows me to continue that schedule, which is doubtful, once Jackaruby arrives it’ll definitely be ancient history!

One exciting new feeling is the baby moving. I felt it for the first time over the weekend as I was lying in bed reading. All of a sudden I felt a kind of flutter like a butterfly or fish was inside of me. I have only felt it one time since, so I must only feel the really big movements for now. It’s hard not to wish I felt more, but I’m sure soon enough it’ll go from feeling like a light flutter in my abdomen to a not-so-welcome harsh elbow to the kidney and I’ll be wishing I felt it less!

Other exciting news is that we have been working on the nursery. It’s early to have it set up already, but we’re so excited that we couldn’t wait. We purchased a crib and dresser/changing table a few weeks ago, then we painted the room. We decided to do solid yellow on the top half of the walls and yellow and white stripes on the bottom. This weekend we finished it off by putting up the border and it looks very bright and very cute! You can see a picture of the border that we used (frogs, of course) below, and if you click on it it will take you to an album with pics of the room. So weird to walk by that room everyday and see it set up like a baby lives there! In about six months one will!
– Kate