Today I am 15 weeks and one day- and showing every bit of it! My belly button continues to flatten out! I have been feeling more "flutterings" but nothing very substantial like the very first time I felt that strong little flutter.
In exactly 4 days we leave for TN to tell the family our news, and after that I can actually "publish" all my "Baby Clark" posts to the site, so others can read them! I am so excited about that. I just feel so ready to get it out in the open to everyone. We've had to wait an extra little while till we could get home to the family before telling friends and family back home. If the news got to my parents before we could tell them, that would not be a very good thing. The plan is all in place and we should be able to pull it off by God's help! We need a cooperative park Ranger and a good hiding place, that's about it. Our travel plans have been set into place for almost 2 months now!
Yesterday I went with Debbi, Jesse, and Anita to Babies R Us. Thank God for "framily," they are so good to us.
I had a nice time dreaming about the baby, but truly that store is just overwhelming! There is so much "stuff" that comes with a little one. I went home that night and began my big project. I cleaned out the closets and under the bed- throwing stuff away left and right and making give away piles of stuff that I just don't think we are going to need right now. Sure, we may need it one day, but it always feels so good to lighten the load. I have to do it now before I get much bigger!
I think I am "nesting". I've heard this term but wonder what it means. I googled it just now and the first article that came up sounded just like me! I didn't really know this was a seriously common thing but apparently it really is! It says:
"Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world.
Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviors in pregnant women and all of them experience it differently. Women have reported throwing away perfectly good sheets and towels because they felt the strong need to have "brand new, clean" sheets and towels in their home. They have also reported doing things like taking apart the knobs on kitchen cupboards, just so they could disinfect the screws attached to the knobs. Women have discussed taking on cleaning their entire house, armed with a toothbrush. There seems to be no end to the lengths a nesting mother will go to prepare for her upcoming arrival.
This unusual burst of energy is responsible for women ironing anything in the house that couldn't out run them. Being preoccupied with ant killing, squishing them one at a time for weeks on end. Packing and unpacking the labor bag 50 times. Cleaning the kitchen cupboards and organizing everything by size to the point that you make sure the silverware patterns match when it's stacked in the cutlery drawer. Sorting the baby's clothes over and over again is a favorite theme. Taking them out of the drawers and re-folding them, putting them away and doing it over and over again. Nesting will provide interesting stories for years to come."
Humm. I learned something new today. That's funny!
