24 weeks

I have been feeling large and in-charge this week. Lots of rolling out of bed and pushing up on stuff to get out of a chair. I have to chuckle because this is WAY too early to be doing this and I've still got a good 4 months to go. Also, I really do forget I'm pregnant and will be happily working or doing something and then I go to get up and I wonder for a second why I'm having so much trouble getting off the couch until I think oh yea, I'm pregnant! The baby moves pretty much constantly and I'm starting to pick up on sleep/wake cycles. When the baby is positioned right you can see movement across my tummy.

So just for fun Patrick and I looked up a photo from Piper's pregnancy to see if we could find a week that matched up with how I look now. We both picked the same week, pictured to the right. Just to make it more clear, I included a current photo of me. What do you guys think? And guess how many weeks I am in that picture (leave you guess in the comments). Winner receives...nothing.

Me at 24 weeks with #2----------------------------------------------------------Me at ?? weeks with #1

This week has been great. Patrick and I have taken several evening walks by ourselves since Carol and Greg are staying with us. It's been so nice - like old times when we were pregnant with Piper and could stay out late in the evenings walking down to the river and peering in all the mansions to see what everyone is up to.

I had my first dream about the baby this week. All the dream details are really fuzzy, but I just remember that I had a baby and it was a boy (yikes) and I was walking around showing him to everyone. For the record, I feel like the baby is a girl right now.