19 weeks today

Last night I was exhausted. I had over done it a bit. Still it was a memorable evening. Andrew went out to an auction and I caught up with my good friend from college and a great matchmaker I must say. As we talked I had my hand on my belly the whole time pretty much and WOW–this baby was moving moving moving! It was so cool. Andrew was gone or I would have called him to feel the baby too. It was so fun. The baby favors my left side just along my navel and above it also. Now my uterus is above my navel by an inch or 2 and the baby has lots of room to move in the melon sized baby hotel. Well, what was neat was that I didn’t just feel kicks occasionally but felt the swooshes of the baby twisting and turning around in there and then an occasional tap-tap-bump-little kick. The swirling motion against my hand just made the pregnancy so much more real to me. Just like the first time we heard the heart beat this was another one of those wow experiences. The first time I felt the baby move a couple days ago I just felt a few kick-bumps this time it was lots of swirling over and over again like the baby was doing water gymnastics. I could go on and on. After Andrew got back we finished the final installment of one of THE most confusing and annoying movies I have seen in a while Pirates of the Caribbean 3–Andrew didn’t agree with me on this note but he likes action/war movies. Next time I get to choose the flick. I am choosing a documentary of course. I LOVE documentaries. I guess it is the geeky biology and history-loving me coming out! We have 1 on World War 2 and 3 on the ocean. I get them from the dollar shelf at Wal-Mart and they are fascinating. Anyways as we were watching Pirates 3, I was eating my nightly bowl of plain yogurt with sliced peaches and gently pressing on random places on my belly trying to find out where the baby was hiding out now. I finally located the Little one and would have the Daddy put his hands on my belly too. I kept moving his hand around and finally he felt the little one twirling around too! That was special except for the fact we had such a lame movie on. I blame the movie with giving me nightmares last night about being chased and having an alien looking thing swirling around me inside me instead of our cute little one. No offense to anyone who loved Pirates of the Caribbean 3 as we watched in installments of 4 over the span of this week because I was way to tired to stay up late to watch it all at once. Wow it is a long movie. I was cheering when it was over–because it was FINALLY OVER!  Nonetheless yesterday was VERY SPECIAL.

Finally, here’s a quote I read yesterday and appreciated:

“Reader, if God has given you His only begotten Son, beware of doubting His kindness and love, in any painful providence of your daily life! Never allow yourself to think hard thoughts of God. Never suppose that He can give you anything which is not really for your good. Remember the words of Paul: ‘He who spared not His own Son—but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things’ (Romans 8:32).
See in every sorrow and trouble of your earthly pilgrimage the hand of Him who gave Christ to die for your sins! That hand can never smite you except in love! He who gave His only begotten Son for you, will never withhold anything from you which is really for your good. Lean back on this thought and be content. Say to yourself in the darkest hour of trial, ‘This also is ordered by Him who gave Christ to die for my sins. It cannot be wrong. It is done in love. It must be well.’”

J. C. Ryle