24ish weeks: baby movements and more

I'm super excited to finally be able to say that I can feel the baby moving around! It happened for the first time Sunday night (8/2/09) before going to bed... I was just lying there and all of a sudden, I felt a little thump inside. Then another one... I told Shel and he put his hand on my stomach to feel her too. It's much harder for him to feel, but he did! It's such an awesome feeling... hard to describe, but it's amazing to feel your child move around inside of you. Ever since then, I've been feeling her now and then...she has periods of high activity and then she settles down.

In other happenings...

The prenatal yoga classes have been going very well. I've just been going once a week and today was the 3rd time. I try and do it on my own at home on other days. It's just so relaxing and it seems to be helping with my back pain and other sore spots.

For the last two weekends we've been meaning to paint the nursery, but other things always pop up. Shel has been knocking off lots of things on the honey-do list like... trimming the trees, installing knobs on our kitchen cabs and over the past weekend we painted our dining room and entertainment nook (which we might have to repaint as I'm unsure about the color). We've had some of these on the laundry list for over a year now :) Oh well, better late than never.




The weekend before last, we had poker night at Neena and Vijay's place... Nicole and Mike rounded out the group. So, I usually don't walk away with winning... sometimes I break even, sometimes I lose it all, and I think maybe once I won big. This time, I was the clear chip leader... I won some great hands :) I'll have to give some credit to baby as she most likely brought me luck ;-) Hopefully that luck continues after she's born... he he.




People have been asking whether I get any strange cravings, and honestly, I haven't had anything really weird. I love to have different kinds of fruits these days... we went through a 3 pack of cantaloupes in about a week, got a giant watermelon last week, but so far we've only eaten half of it...I get the usual apples, bananas and grapes, but also got some yummy nectarines last week. Oh, and I am loving coconut water too... I've found fresh baby coconuts at Whole Foods and the Indian store and they are so refreshing! I'm getting my appetite back so I am able to eat normal amounts of food, but I still go through mood swings now and then.


We went to the ICA bowling event that Shel organized a couple of weekends ago. Although it's fun to watch for a little while, it gets a bit old when you can't actually bowl yourself... I suppose I could have, but I didn't think it was a good idea to be swinging a 10 lb ball around and risk loosing my balance :) At least I wasn't the only one on the bench... Smeetha is also preggers so she wasn't bowling either.

Last weekend, I got a chance to wear a saree... first time as a prego woman, and you know, it wasn't that bad! It was for Rohini and Arun's baby naming ceremony. I am just glad I was able to carry it off and not fall!

Mom and Dad stopped by for a night last week on the tail end of their 2 week+ road trip. They were heading back home to Houston from Cali and Arizona. Next, they're heading East on another road trip, so they've gotten a lot of traveling in this summer. It's good to see them finally free to take these kinds of trips vs. being chained to their business.

Our 5th wedding anniversary is coming up in just a few short days. I'm not sure yet what to get for Shel... I really should have planned ahead for this milestone. I'll have to come up with something creative soon!