Swim, goldfish, swim!

Last week was a fun one! On Thursday I sat down at work for a few minutes and suddenly felt something move around in my belly! It felt like a little goldfish flipping around in there. Much stronger than the "butterfly wings"/gas feeling I was getting the week or two before. It was awesome to so clearly feel the baby move! It was still wiggling around when I got home, but of course it's still too small for Erich to feel. But I swear when I was lying perfectly still I could see my belly vibrate a little in the area where I felt the goldfish. A bit like water rippling when a fish swims just below the surface. Well, you can guess what the baby's nickname now is... :)


On Friday I visited a school and met the principal there for the first time. Toward the end of our meeting, out of the blue, she asks me, "When are you due?" Apparently, I'm starting to look clearly pregnant now (or else she didn't care if she offended me if I had in fact just eaten more cake lately....) Though there are 3 teachers in her building all due in May, so I suppose she has a trained eye for these things! But then on Saturday I went with a friend to get a pedicure, and the gal working on my toes asked as well!! I'm quite glad to be moving out of the, "Is she fat or pregnant?" stage!

I've also developed full-blown pregnancy brain. I pulled up to the gas station in my car which I've driven for 4 years now, and realized the tank was on the wrong side. Whoops! I'm Polish, blond, and pregnant...something like this was bound to happen...  ;)

Is it my imagination, or do I look thinner in this week's shot? Not so much in this one though:

What's in a name?

This week we started thinking more seriously about baby names. Although we had a girl's name picked out long ago (a baby girl will be named after our grandmothers), a boy name is proving challenging.

We downloaded a name app on my phone and perused through over 1000 (!) names and have yet to find anything that really grabs us. There were a few that were possibilities, but most of them were just ho-hum names, or definite NOs!

We're both surprised at how difficult finding a boy name is turning out to be! Picking the right name is a lot of responsibility! We'd hate to saddle the kid with a name that will lead to relentless teasing or be something that's too hard to live up to... (One of the names we promptly rejected in the list of 1000 was "Adonis"... No pressure there, eh??) Hopefully we'll find something we like soon; or perhaps in another 4 weeks we'll find out we don't need to... :)

In other news, we booked our holiday flights this weekend. We'll be going to MN for Christmas, and just after New Years I'll be flying to CA to visit Polina, Max, Ben and new baby Lexi! It should be a lot of fun. And given my steady belly growth, I'm sure by then (about 5 months) I'll be showing quite a bit, which should be entertaining for all.

I also started skimming through a book a friend of mine recommended called Baby Bargains. It helps you make decisions about what products to purchase for baby. There are so many different brands and features in baby gear, it's overwhelming! How am I supposed to know what features I'd like in a stroller? Holy cow, there are a lot of options. I'm sure I will be bugging all you new and recent parents for your recommendations soon!

Did I feel movement???!

This week I think I may have felt the baby move around a little, though I can't be sure! We read that it may be possible to feel the baby a little and that it would feel like "butterflies in your belly".

Early this week when Erich pressed on my belly a little, I thought I felt something roll over, but Thursday night as I was laying in bed, it really felt like something fluttering around in there a bit. Hard to know for sure, maybe my tummy was just rumbling, but it felt a bit different than normal!

I also discovered a cool website that helps you figure out what color eyes your baby may have. I was under the mistaken impression that the kid would have to have blue eyes since Erich's are blue and mine are green, but I was wrong!! Check this out (from The Tech, Museum of Innovation):

It turns out the kid is actually more likely to have green eyes!! Who knew??? Be sure to cast your vote and predict what color eyes the baby will have (top right corner of blog), assuming of course that you're not sick of voting. :)

Here are this week's belly shots:

(Notice the "I Voted" sticker on the 15 weeks sign.)

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