About halfway...

I was wearing a dress yesterday that really showed some bump, so thought I'd take a quick picture after getting home from work (sorry for the poor quality).  I'm now 19 weeks 5 days or 20 weeks depending on how you count ;)

(serious expression was concentrating on keeping phone still!)

Last weekend, Janet took me maternity clothes shopping and we got some good finds!  I'm slowly putting them into my wardrobe for work as I need them so they don't get too overused too early.  More and more of my pre-prego clothes are getting pushed aside as the days go by!

Last night in bed while David watched TV and I was reading, I felt the tell-tale pops of Baby kicking. two lower kicks, pause, then another higher and to the right. I grabbed his hand and told him to wait a few minutes, because Alex was kicking. Another moment later…POP right into his hand!  Before now, he’s only been able to feel some vague movement or fluttering, but this was the first time he’s felt a kick.

Great moment :)

Names, trips, etc

Soon after finding out the gender of Baby Schoen, David and I narrowed down the name list to either Alexander or Austin.  I was already partial to Alexander/Alexandria for my decision-making-impairment looooong before we conceived.  David really liked Austin.  Middle name, for some reason, took a lot of talking about (never realized the middle name would be such a big deal, but it was)

So we have decided for about 2 weeks now to name him:

Alexander Brian Schoen  :)

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David and I just spent a long weekend on Labor Day to drive up to Green Bay for his co-worker/friend's wedding, then over to visit with his Dad and Karen.  On the way up, we decided to do a bit of touristy dining.  I looked up the Food Network show "Man vs Food" to see which places he ate at in St Louis.  We ended up eating at the Iron Barley for lunch, kind of a bar & grill with old-fashioned American food, some items with their own twist!  We also stopped by Milwaukee and ate downtown for dinner, then to see the corporate office or "mother ship" (as he likes to call it) of David's company.

We had a good time and got a chance to relax a bit minus all the driving (although, I only drove 3 blocks of the distance...from the reception to the hotel, since I am a permanent designated driver currently!)  I love that car, but I sure was getting tired of sitting in it for hours and hours!  On the upside, I finished a pregnancy book, 2 romance novels, and the front of a sweater I'm currently knitting during all that time in the car :)