So...little Ms. JoJo is a kicker. It's really cool that I get to feel her all day long. She kicks and turns and punches and headbutts and all those fun things. This morning I was awake at 4:30 (not on purpose, Kyle was snoring) and I could feel her just rolling around like crazy in there. It was insane! I'm pretty sure she is the size of a Subway foot long at this point and that is just unbelievable. I mean, she started out as nothing...just a little tiny poppy seed-sized blastocyst and now she is a Subway sandwich. It's just crazy! (and kind of makes me want a sandwich...)
In other news, we are about to begin work on the nursery. Kyle's parents gave us the go-ahead on turning the garage into our bedroom, so we can turn our old room into Jolee's. It's gonna be great. Kyle has worked SO hard on the garage. We are almost done with it. All we have left is painting one wall (the wall he just put up this weekend) and then carpet. That's it. :) I am SO excited! I will take pictures once we get the entire room done.
Whenever that is done, we will begin turning our old room into a beautiful baby JoJo room. I'm ready to get all that done now. I just need to see the place she will be living. I think it will be even more real when that is done. We are getting extremely close to her being here and I just want everything to be ready.
I will be 24 weeks this coming Friday. 6 MONTHS!!!! Time has passed so quickly! It felt like the first 3 months would never end, but now that I'm feeling better and am able to actually accomplish things, time is just flying by. She will be here before we know it! OH, my goodness, she will be HERE!!!!! EEEEKKKK!!!!!
Now onto the fun stuff...the update from babycenter.com...
"Turn on the radio and sway to the music. With her sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance. And now that she's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango), you may be able to see her squirm underneath your clothes. Blood vessels in her lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that your baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing her for entry into the outside world. Loud noises that become familiar now — such as your dog barking or the roar of the vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze her when she hears them outside the womb."
So she is a perfectly beautiful little mango baby on her way to being an ear of corn. They just grow up SO fast!
