I can’t wait for that again for Scott to feel.  But yesterday evening the baby was moving so much!  We went to a cookout at the local college.  It’s an annual fundraiser and they serve around 10,000 people!!  We went early so as to avoid a lot of the crowds.

It was quite cold so we ate our buffalo burgers the went to the museum to warm up, as they had free admission yesterday.  There was lots for the kids to do there, and after warming up we went to a lot of the outdoor activities for the kids.  We were on our feet for several hours and walking for much of it.  Scott had Brennan in the kid carrier backpack for much of the time and he was sore by the time we got home!

I think all that walking and rocking kept the baby sleeping for much of the day, so when we got home and settled down baby was up and moving lots!   I was so very excited by it and I’ve been enjoying feeling movement today too.  It’s probably one of my favorite parts of pregnancy

But today at the end of our quiet time (aka naptime) I was trying to feel exactly where my uterus is sitting. I can certainly feel it now when I lie on my belly but it’s not really sticking out yet. At 20 weeks the top of the uterus is generally at the belly button. So I have several weeks to go before it gets there, but it’s growing.

Anyways, I found it, but it felt strange. Normally I just feel a hard little bump, but today I felt a hard bump with a lump to one side. At first I thought it was because I’d been napping on my side and stuff had just shifted. But I think it’s possible that the baby was balled up right there and I happened to go poking around right then :p

I grabbed my copy of Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth (conveniently on my bedside table) and thumbed through to read about how big my baby is right now. It says that baby is 3-4 inches long. Not sure if that’s crown to rump or head to toe. But either way, wow! Baby is getting big! And it means that little lump I felt could have feasibly been a curled up baby. (In case you’re wondering said bump within bump appears to have swam elsewhere now )

I love spending time thinking about the baby – something hard to do sometimes with three other children, a business, and a home to take care of. I certainly try to take it easy but life just flies sometimes. I treasure the times I can just sit back and think about our baby, imagine what he or she is doing. I’ve been feeling little flutters lately as well, a few every day (the first movements are called quickening. to me they feel like little bubbles popping inside). I can’t wait to be feeling solid kicks. It’s all so exciting