Sugar and Spice

...And everything nice.  That's right, we're having a girl!!  And I can only hope that the previous mantra is true, although, more realistically my daughter will be stubborn, opinionated, and independent.  Anyways, we are very excited to begin planning and buying lots of pink and purple.  Here is her most recent head shot

20 weeks, 2-21-13

Everything that they could measure looked healthy and normal but she gave the sonographer a bit of a hard time will all of her activity.  I was going to post the gender shot but figured she may not appreciate it in years to come, as her girl parts are very obvious.  Overall  I'm feeling...better.  Not wonderful or fantastic, but  better.  I was on my way upstairs to post how it had been 2 1/2 weeks since a "reversal" (as they call it in the competitive eating world) and, alas, my streak ended with a bonus simultaneous nose bleed.  But, I'll take the occasional emesis to the persistent nausea that I had been experiencing.  I have more energy and have been able to eat more (unfortunately the scale isn't reflecting that much),  my skin looks 10 times better, and other things are, uh, moving more regularly.  I'm starting to look more pregnant rather than just fat and have ditched my regular jeans for the more comfy maternity variety, and I don't cry at the nightly human interest stories on the news.  So, yes, overall I am definitely better. 

Along with feeling better comes leaving the house more to participate in social activities again!  A good friend recently had a birthday and arranged for us to do a guided painting class.  It was much fun and even us unartistic folks left with a painting that wasn't half  bad.  Here's mine:

Perhaps the best part was seeing how different they all turned out

It was indeed a good time and I hope to do it again, maybe when my mom visits.

So our  baby may get stuck with some owl art in her nursery, just because she was there too, kicking me most of the time, I might add.