I'm in the middle of the sixth month. Week 24 and 3 days. Just two more weeks and I enter the 3rd trimester...can you say "getting nervous", because I am. At times it feels as if this pregnancy has flown by and then at others I think "I can't possibly have three and half more months to go...I'm gonna be huge by then!" Our baby boy is about 10-12 inches now, pretty big and weighs between a pound and a pound and a half. By the end of this week he should weigh over a pound and a half and be 12-14 inches long. No wonder I'm tired, there is alot going on inside my body! He now resembles the baby he will be at birth but is a much smaller and skinner version. All of his facial features are formed so brain development and putting on fat are his major goals in the up coming months. I have a check up tomorrow and will post again if anything exciting happens. New belly pictures will be taken this weekend to capture my growing girth!

23 weeks and the beginning of the sixth month! The baby boy is a pound or more this week and between 9-11 inches long. This week Danny put his ear to my belly and heard the swooshing sound of fluid as our little guy did his nightly acrobatics and them bam! He got kicked in the face...too funny! "Welcome to my world" I told him, be glad it wasn't your liver or some other internal organ. I official feel very pregnant and awkward and I know it's only down hill from here ; ). To combat the sadness over losing the ability to bend at the waist I bought a fetal monitor and nightly listen to the baby kick and swim around. I'm not sure what I'm listening to. It mainly just sounds like thumps and swishes but hey it's a wonderful thump and swish to hear!

22 weeks today, the end of the 5th month! This week our baby boy has finished developing fingernails and eyebrows and tastebuds are forming on the baby's tongue. Right now he is able to swallow small amounts of amniotic fluid to help practice breathing and to recieve some nutrients...pretty gross!

Our baby boy is now roughy 1 pound and about the length of a banana and boy can I feel it. Right now he sleeps about half the day, between 12-14 hours, and his waking moments are very active. I can tell this is Daniel's son because his favorite time to kick and move is mom's bedtime (Daniel is the night owl, not me). Last night we saw my stomache change shape from the baby moving. IT WAS CRAZY! I could feel him moving from one side of the womb to the other so I lifted up my shirt to see if we could watch it happen. Sure enough it was very obvious what the little guy was doing, too cool! That's all that's new this week. Daniel is very excited about having a boy but I think we are both just excited to know the gender in general. Well I'm off to a big day of shopping. This little guy is going to need some clothes to wear in 4 months!