Life with our plus one: 18 Weeks

Baby B is the size of a sweet potato this week! About 5.6 inches long and 6.7 oz. I follow thebump.com to see how big Baby B is and what she (or he) is learning to do every week and what fruit or veggie size she's compared to. In week 18 it says she's sucking, hiccuping, yawning and swallowing already! Crazy! I'm still waiting to feel some strong movements in there. Every once in a while I think I may have felt something, but it's still hard to tell the difference between what might be the baby and what might just be my insides working away. I was hoping Baby B would give some good kicks that the family might be able to feel while they were all here in town, but no luck. Oh well. This baby is making it clear that's she's going to do things on her own time. I guess I should get used to that...

Stephen and I decided that our New Years resolution was to start eating healthier and exercise more. I'm pretty sure that's everyone's resolution every year. Stephen wants to shed a few and I'm really just wanting to eat healthier for the baby now that the holidays are over and I'm not surrounded by delicious looking sweets 24/7. Note to self: Not only is it bad to go grocery shopping for food when you're hungry, but it's even worse when you're pregnant and hungry. The ice cream aisle sucked me in like a bug drawn to the light. I stood there looking at all the different flavors and my mouth literally started watering. So I narrowed it down to two and tried to make a decision from there. A few minutes later I had both quarts of Mint Brownie and Drumstick ice cream in my cart. I got out of there as quick as I could...

For Christmas Stephen and I got a fancy new camera, so we're excited to be posting pictures that will hopefully look better than the ones we've been taking with our phones. I'm also super excited to have a nice camera for when our little jellybean arrives! We should get some pictures up of my every so slowly growing belly up soon. :)

Oh, and our most exciting news (which I'm surprised I didn't say first thing) is that we find out the sex of the baby on January 9th!!! I can't wait!!!! I still I have this feeling that it's a boy, but Stephen has decided that we've jinxed it with all this boy talk and that it's a girl. Only 9 more days until we know for sure! Once we know I think I'll officially start going crazy buying things and picking our furniture. Can't wait!!!

Here's a few pictures from Christmas with the Perkins Crew!