I have started to notice more changes with my body. My belly button is bigger around and more shallow. I can touch the inside for the first time ever. It is a weird feeling. My belly keeps getting bigger. I'm almost half way through. Next Friday is the half way point.
The baby's room is painted (well most of the house is now thanks to Mom, Perry, Suzy, and Rob). It is a pretty blue color. I'll add clouds and kites soon. While we were getting the paint another customer saw the paint sitting on the counter. When the lady asked if it was his, he said, "No that is an ugly color. It looks like North Carolina blue." We were offended he didn't like the color, but I guess for anything else other than a baby's room it would be kind of ugly. But it is cute for our baby. :)

From the polls we are having a girl with blonde/black hair and brown eyes. I'm out of ideas for the poll for now. Let me know if you have any. When it gets closer we'll have one up about the when the baby will be born.

New House

Hey All. I know some of you have sent e-mails on how things are going, but this is the first time I've had internet in a week. First of all, the doctor's appointment went well. Rob and I got to hear the heart beat. This time it was between 150 and 155. We talked to him about waiting until September to do the ultra sound since we will have insurance then, and he was fine with that. We are now undecided if we are going to find out the sex of the baby. We had wanted to, but the longer we go without knowing, I just think it would be neat to wait. We'll see. I still have a few months to change my mind. I have felt the baby move a handful of times. It freaked me out the first time, but I enjoy the feeling now, knowing that that is my child moving around in there.
In other news. We closed on our house Wednesday, moved everything we had pack and our bed to the house, and Rob primed what will be our bedroom. Half the house in paneling. Yesterday, with help from some wonderful people (Jeanie, Deb, and Charlie) all the paneling is primed. Just in time for Rob to leave for middle school camp at 2 today. I'll be working a few days around the house and packing some more from our old place, then headed up to stay with Mom. She'll com back down and help paint Saturday. We are having a "painting party" as Rob puts it, to try and get the whole house painted and ready for us to really move into. I'll post pictures of the house when we get finished.

I'm back to the land of the living. We had a great week at camp and I crazy week ahead. I go to the doctor tomorrow (so I'll post how that goes), then Wednesday we close on our house and get the keys!!!! YAH!! My headaches have continued, so I'll be asking the doctor about that. Other that I'm doing great. The baby was exposed to load music this week. I laugh and told Rob it was head banging in there. :) I have felt a few flutters, but not much. If the baby is like I was, I'm sure I'll feel more soon.

16 weeks

Sorry for not posting for a week. This summer will have me limited on internet access until we move and get internet at home. I may only be able to post once a week.
The baby and I are doing fine. My headaches are still going strong for a few hours a day. On Friday I had a bad one that lasted most of the day.
Moodiness has also kicked in. Rob liked it when I took it out on the lady at Kroger, but when he became the target it wasn't as much fun. I didn't know what to do because I knew I should be mad, but I couldn't help it. Rob is a good sport though. He just calmly waited for me to stop being mad since he knew he didn't do anything that deserved my wrath. :)
We were supposed to take a picture Friday of my ever growing belly, but we have had a crazy last couple of days. We leave for camp tomorrow, so it will be a little while before I post again.

This picture was taken one night when my stomach was pretty big. But, if you flip back to the first picture it is crazy to think that I have changed that much. I think I look about the same now as I did in this picture, but next week will be 16 weeks, which means time for another picture. We'll see then how big I have gotten. People are starting to notice my belly now, which is fun.
On another note, the pregnant Melissa is a lot more forceful than the non-pregnant Melissa. For example: We went to Kroger (the same one that refused to give us milk for the price that was on the sticker a few weeks ago) yesterday to pick up some baking items needed to make cookies for today. Anyway, we knew it was a Saturday and would be a little busy, but this Kroger made me mad. They had one lane open plus the self check-out. We were third in line, so it wasn't a big deal until someone tried paying with food stamps and we had to wait for someone to come mess with those. Again, normal stuff, but we were standing in line for about three minutes, without moving. Now there are three more people behind us and the self-check out is backed up. I left Rob in line and found the manager to ask why on a Saturday there was only one line open. She wasn't very friendly, but I told her as she was walking away that it was bad business. By the time I got back our line was moving, and before we left she had called up another cashier and some baggers. Okay, so that took a lot more room to tell than I thought it would, but Rob and I got a kick out of me doing something pretty out of character.

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