Pregnancy Update

I am 24 weeks and 2 days along. I am well over the half way mark, which makes me excited and nervous all at once. It’s so crazy to think about how our lives are about to change. I keep having crazy dreams about the baby. The other night I had one where the doctor’s office gave us a tiny little doll like thing that was about the size of 2 grains of rice, it was living and it was a girl. They said that it was a new thing and that everyone expecting a new baby had to do this so they could see if we would be good parents. We had to take care of her and keep her alive and take her everywhere with us. So we were feeding her, and putting her to bed, then one night I was giving her a bath and I lost her in the water. I was so scared but luckily I found her. So I decided to attach her to a chain and ware her like a bracelet. This worked pretty well, but she was growing. Eventually she turned into a cupcake. Then we were shopping one day and we saw one of our friends and she told us that when her’s became a cupcake she just ate it. . . That’s not even the weirdest of my dreams. Is that normal?


I’ve been feeling a lot better lately. Every few days I relapse though and get a great big dose of morning sickness. If I can drink a glass of milk before it gets too bad then it will usually make me feel better. I used to buy one gallon of milk every couple of weeks, but we go through so much now since it always sounds good to me, that I’ve been buying 2-3 per week. My belly is growing so much (as you can see). I’ve been feeling the baby move a lot. He doesn’t bother me at nights though; it’s mostly during the evenings before I go to bed. A few nights I’ve woken up to use the restroom and I can feel either a head or a tiny bum. It’s so hard and feels like a ball, so of course I wake Andy up to feel him too. It’s been a lot of fun feeling him move and wondering what on earth he’s doing. I’ve been getting a lot of Charlie horses that wake me up in the middle of the night. Andy laughs at me as I walk around the room at 2 in the morning trying to get it to go away. I’ve been trying to eat a lot of bananas to help me not get them, but I don’t really like them, actually I think I’m a little allergic because I always get a fat lip after I eat one unless I eat something else right after.


On a very HAPPY note:
We have a new nephew!!!
Carter Quayle Johnson was born on March 13, 2009. He weighed 7 lbs. 1 ounce and is very, very CUTE! Chelsa and Carter are both doing really good, and are home adjusting to life.

I am exactly 24 weeks in these pictures. I'm getting big!