23 Weeks

5.75 months! It's really hard to believe that I'm almost 6 months pregnant. The time has flown by incredibly fast. I guess work and the wedding are keeping me pretty busy though, so no wonder. I would think that maybe I'd be bored after the wedding, but we have to move at the end of June and then I'll just be planning for/thinking about Chloe all the time.

I spent some time with a good friend and mother last weekend and she asked me if I'd felt Chloe's hiccups yet. I was fairly certain that I hadn't, or at least I wasn't paying enough attention to discern a hiccup from a kick, but the other day I felt the STRONG! It was exciting to feel something new going on, but like every other change I'm going through, a little strange. I've realized that no matter how many manuals you read about pregnancy, not a single one of them tells you how YOU are going to feel about everything. I know it would be hard for something to tell you how you'd feel, so it makes sense, it's just really weird. There are people who are depressed and people who are just happy the whole time...but I haven't seen anybody who was just genuinely freaked the hell out every time something new happened. I know these people exist and that I'm not the only one. Oh well, if I AM the only one, HERE I AM! YOU'RE NOT ALONE (future freaked out nerdy girls)!

I'm becoming a bit more of a hand magnet, but people have still been courteous and will ask me first. The first person I don't want touching me who does so without asking better hope I don't have my knife with me that day...

Getting bigger and bigger and mo' bigger...

Other women who have been pregnant just look at me like "Really? You're almost 6 months? NOOOOooooo... I was a WHALE by then!!" So even though I personally feel like a small moon or cow people are making me feel good about it. What can I say...#skinnygirlproblems. I can tell there's more weight there though...my legs have been KILLING me at times. A cramp in my right calf woke me up last week and took half the week to go away! A friend recommended I have a banana a day, so I've been working on that. Good thing I like bananas.

This week for Chloe:

• She's now 8-11+ inches long and slightly over a pound. 
• I should be able to hear her heartbeat through a standard stethoscope now
• Her bones and blood vessels and such are still visible through her skin, but she's about to start fattening up, which will change that
• Loud sounds are becoming familiar to her (maybe I need to vacuum more so she knows it means chill out once she's here...)

I'll be a wife in three weeks!