Half Way!

I have reached the half way point. Or should I say, the hopefully halfway point - and cross my fingers I'm not overdue again! So far, things have been pretty good. I have to go look at my journal from #1 and see how I was feeling last time around this time. I am definitely more sore than I think I was last time at this point, but otherwise, I cannot complain at all.

I will brag a bit (which I can since it's my blog and I can do whatever I want) and say that I can still wear non-maternity pants! I am still easily wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans and have a few pairs of work pants I can still wear. I have switched to some of the low waisted elastic waist pants for work so I'm not completely in non-maternity, but I cannot wear the pants with the panels (you know, those big ugly elastic bands that are a few inches wide) yet. Yes, it's the small things like knowing that I'm 20 weeks and not fully in maternity clothes that make me happy. Sounds pretty vain, huh? I just have always heard the stories on the message boards I go on where girls that are only 8 weeks pregnant break out the maternity wear so I'm glad to know that it's not always that way.

Tonight, Katarina & I were discussing the baby. She told me last night that she loves the baby in my belly. Tonight she wanted to see my belly and gave it lots of kisses. She still thinks it's going to be a girl. We discussed names too. Basically, I suggested a name for every letter of the alphabet and Katarina would say "no" and laugh hysterically. I'm not quite sure why she found the whole game as funny as she did, but I enjoyed laughing hard too. She's a tough cookie though and didn't like any of the names I suggested! I even threw out the real names we were considering and she "no-d" them. In the end, she finally picked two names for her new baby brother or sister. What are the names? Elmo or Aunt Lotta. Yes, those are her name choices for her sibling.