moving around!

Usually at the end of the day, my stomach starts to pop.

It kind of looks like a bag of popcorn....except there is no popcorn inside of my stomach....

hmmm...that reminds me.....

popcorn......yum...

anyway....

Bunny trail!

I don't see a hand or a foot, yet, but I see my stomach going "POP"....."pop"...."POPOPOPOPOP".

Baby boy is moving around, getting comfortable.

It's really comical. I put my hand on my stomach, and talk to him...and he'll move around a bit, and I'll play with him, by poking my stomach a bit...

He only likes to move around either really late at night or early in the morning...like right now, I feel him a bit. I don't consider it too early, but I'm also still attempting to wake up.

The other night, I put Jacob's hand on my stomach, and told him to wait for 5 or 10 minutes. He had yet to really feel him move, so as we were getting ready to go to sleep (during high movement time), I put his hand on my stomach, and we waited. And waited. And waited. after about 5 minutes, there was no movement (Baby boy is stubborn....just like his daddy...and mommy). I poked around my stomach and said, "Come on...I know this is the time you want to move around..." And sure enough, he started moving around, and he apparently didn't like me poking him, so he kicked right where Jacob's hand was! The first big kick! He scared me...i wasn't expecting a kick; i was expecting a rolling around. I said, "OH! did you feel that?!" and Jacob said, "yeah! that was the baby??" "Of course! what else could it be?!"

Lately, I've been having symptoms of what i think is a sinus infection...have all the symptoms. I have been talking with those around me who've recently had babies, and they all said that they had the symptoms of a sinus infection but with out the infection...which i guess i can handle...i'd rather not have an infection seeing how i can't take antibiotics, exactly....

I'm laughing a lot right now...a lot of people have commented on how BIG i've become...

well...

the news is:

i've not gained any weight. literally.

before i got pregnant, i was losing weight. i lost about 5 pounds, then found out i was pregnant. so, in the 4 and a half months since, I have only put on that 5 pounds, and maybe a few ounces.

it's all baby.

Our darling baby boy!

These are the 20 week ultrasound pictures of our beautiful baby boy!

I was scared to learn what was growing and kicking inside of me was a boy...honestly. I am far more comfortable with a girl, however, I knew deep DEEP down that God was going to give us a boy.

I could sit here and say, "Just my luck...of course He would give us a boy to challenge me and my thinking and teaching..."

But that is not the case.

The whole reason I knew...

I dreamed a dream.

I know this may be silly to some of you...

Many years ago, before Jacob and I were even dating, I had a dream.

I didn't admit to myself that I had feelings for this man...let alone to anyone else, until I had this dream.

It wasn't anything glamorous. But it involved my husband and a little boy sitting on a couch in a house and me, carrying a laundry basket.

I didn't know at the time it was a promise from God. Then, we got married. I started to clue in.

"Maybe this is something bigger than us."

Yes. We are but small grains of sand.

This baby boy of ours is another evidence of God's promise! Almost saying, "I haven't forgotten."

Don't neglect your dreams. They may be selfish. They may be materialistic. They may be down-right silly. But they may be from God. And those dreams, when lived out, are much better than to be expected.