18 weeks today!

It is hard to believe that we are almost half-way there!

There is actually quite a bit going on in our lives right now... here's the shortened version :)

• This week I felt LK move for the first time!!!
• We had a doctor's appt and heard LK's heartbeat again AND scheduled our ultra sound - Sept. 12 at 9:30!
  
• Ryan started class this week and we are already getting into the school routine again. He seems to feel confident about this semester and feels like the first week went very well.
  
• My sister Jessica is coming this weekend to help me paint the kitchen.
• Next week Ryan is going backpacking with his friend Don and I am going to be going to MI for a week to help prepare for my brother's wedding.
• My head continues to be the same, but I've had some days of relief and enjoy each of them.
• God totally blessed us this week by providing an unexpected gift to decorate the nursery AND Ryan's boss changed his schedule for the spring semester and it will be much easier than was originally planned.
  

Here is some info on LK this week... (all the sources are a bit different and some say that LK could be alot longer by now)

Your baby's between five and 5 ½ inches long (crown to rump) and weighs a little more than five ounces. Although she's enveloped by the familiar sound of your beating heart and rushing blood, she's conscious of noises from the outside world, too. They filter through the bones forming in her ear and to her developing brain. Her sense of sight is evolving as well; the retinas are more sensitive to light, and if you bask under a hot sun, she'll perceive a red glow. Other skills she's showing off: yawning, swallowing, sucking, hiccuping, and making faces.

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks...

Ryan working hard in LK's room. He has most of the bead board up now and we are waiting to paint and put up the trim.




This picture was taken earlier this week, 17 weeks 4 days. I look the most pregnant from this angle, my profile doesn't look very pregnant yet.


I hope you are all doing well. I'd love to hear how you are doing. Take care...