Fifteen weeks

Today is my first day of the 16^th week.  Finally I have been feeling great during this last week, so hopefully that is the last of the sickness I will see for a while!  During the 15^th week the baby has grown to the size of a softball or naval orange, or approximately 4ins (10.2cms) and 2.5oz (70gms).  All the books say the baby is moving around like crazy, but I haven’t been able to feel anything yet; however, I should be able to recognize the kicking and punching at some point in the next 6 weeks.  I am looking forward to feeling the “flutters”, but I am not sure the kicking will be as enjoyable, especially since a friend described it as “like a monkey trying to climb up your ribcage”.  I am starting to show a little bit, but I feel as if I am at an intermediary period whereby I look more pudgy than pregnant right now. 

In other baby news, we started to look for bedding at Babies R US.  As we are not finding out the sex of the baby, we have to go with a gender neutral color/theme.  Arthur was insistent on just going with boy bedding as he is convinced that even if we have a girl he will raise her as a boy. Fortunately, Arthur managed to find the most adorable bedding that is covered in Bees: I think it is a winner!

Image from Babies R Us

In light of finding the bedding, we are now trying to find a suitable color to paint the nursery – of course, as is increasingly the case these days, when I say “we” I mean “Arthur”.  I am thinking a soft gray to make the yellow pop.  Anyone have any other suggestions? 

This weekend we went up to the mountains and stayed with some friends in their mountain house.  While Arthur, Trent and Bethany were all out skiing, I got to enjoy some peace and quiet, enabling me to finally finish a book I had been reading, as I have been getting rather distracted with all these baby books.  It was very relaxing and I was trying to enjoy every minute as everyone keeps reminding me I won’t be getting too much quiet time once the baby is here.