Team Weatherington: Weeks 18 & 19

Well, I let another week slide without updating my blog! Sorry about that! There has been a lot going on in the Weatherington household lately.

Tom went out of town for two weeks for training for work and I set a goal to have the house all cleaned up when he got back. I wanted to get all the boxed unpacked and out of the house and have it look like a home! The best laid plans...and all that stuff!

It seemed like eveything I wanted to do, I got stopped for one reason or another. UGH! It was very frustrating! But when Tom got home, we got busy working on the house, and finally got it mostly finished!

It actually looks like we live there now and not like we just moved in!

So last week, (week 18) the baby was the size of a sweet potato! The picture that's on the website where I get these is really not the cutest sweet potato in the world, so I am not going to put it on here! But here is what was new last week:

Your fetus has become amazingly mobile (at least compared to you), passing the hours yawning, hiccuping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking and swallowing. And, baby's finally big enough that you'll be able to feel those movements soon.

Aw!! So cute! I felt a few little flutters from our sweet potato last week, but haven't felt anything since then. I can't wait until Tom can feel it!

Here are my belly pictures from last week!

Wow! I'm getting pretty big!

Week 19!

I am still having a very good pregnancy! My only complaints are that my feet and my back are killing me! Tommy has been a good hubby and has gotten me Epsom salt to soak my feet in, puts it in a big pot with warm water and he even gives me foot massages! (Yes Mom, I said foot massages!) He just kind of pushes on my feet...if he starts rubbing, I just about come out of my seat laughing! He thinks that's pretty funny too! He won't think it's funny when I kick him in the head the next time he does it!

I tell him the massages are his fatherly duty right now! He's a good sport! I'm just crazy about him!

This week Courtney is going to be so excited about our little fruit! It's a MANGO!! (Courtney loves mangos!) So go have a mango for my little mango!

Vernix caseosa, a greasy white substance made of lanugo, oil and dead skin cells (yum) now coats baby's skin, shielding it from the amniotic fluid. (Picture yourself after a nine-month bath, and the need for protection makes sense.) You might actually get to see the vernix at birth, especially if baby is premature.

Well, that's not a very fun description of what's going on this week! Kind of gross! Now go enjoy that mango! haha

My belly has definitely gotten bigger in the last week! Here it is:

Wow!