The baby is also growing and filling out the belly pretty well. Kicks are coming further up and I can feel her up to my ribs and down to my crotch. Stretch, baby, stretch! We played a game of poking each other back and forth a few times this week. Every night as I lay down, she is waking up and so active. It's my favorite moment of the day to prop myself up in bed and just feel her swim.
Billy has been feeling her too. He always pulls his hand away in surprise when she kicks him. Once is enough for Dad while I'd happily lay back and feel her all night.
Sleep gets harder and harder. I wake up to turn many times a night and my hips feel like an old house that creaks in the rain. I've been going to bed earlier and earlier. I usually wake up for about an hour around 3 a.m. and them crash back out until 6 or 7.
Right now we are tossing around names. Will she be Iris, Georgia, or Margot? Will she be someone else entirely? I guess she could be a boy. That mistake happens from time to time.
It feels so much more real than ever before. Mom is planning my shower for June 23. I am saving money. Billy is working hard. August will be here so soon.
