For those of you interested in pregnancy updates, this post if for you.  Yesterday was a momentous day in Pregnancy Land.

* It was our 18 week birthday which means I am 4.5 months now.  Crazy how time flies.

* It was my first day to wear maternity clothes.  Last Friday I finally had to unbutton my pants and wear a cami to try and cover it and still had the muffin top effect so I knew it was time for my soon to be new best friend…elastic.  I’m so thankful for Laura, Missy & Michelle in loaning me their maternity clothes so my frugal clothing budget can remain intact.  A special thanks to Laura who loaned me an entire suitcase full of clothes which should have me well taken care of for awhile!

* It was not only my first day to wear maternity clothes, I actually enjoyed it.  From others that have gone before, apparently I will end up hating them by the end of it but I don’t get the big deal with it so far.  Granted, I’m a total newbie and just haven’t lived in this clothing world long enough but I tend to be pretty content with only a few new things a year and right now I feel like I have a whole new wardrobe.

* The little baby is moving like crazy now and for the first time, someone besides Daniel and me was able to feel the movements.  Alexa happened to be sitting next to me last night at Foundry when this little one would not calm down so now she gets to claim first dibs on prego pics and feeling the baby move.  I’m sure she will use this to her advantage in her name negotiations, won’t you Alexa?

* It also marked 10 days until our decision deadline for finding out the gender.  Our anatomy ultrasound is scheduled for next Friday so we must decide by then.  I’m still totally on the fence so if you have any new reasoning to throw my way, I’m listening.  Notice I said reasoning and not just preference.

* And now what most of you want to see…the pic below…taken, by the way, in front of what was the hole in our house this weekend.  We are doing some finishing work tonight so hopefully I’ll have pictures of that tomorrow.  It is actually a horrible picture but I waited until we got home so this was at 10:30 PM last night and the lighting was really bad and we were too tired to fix it.  So my 18 week belly.  (My 13.5 week belly was me leaning back and trying to poke out whatever I had.  This is totally relaxed.)