preggo update: 5 months

please excuse the untanned belly :)

today, i am five months pregnant! and it's definitely showing. it's now been safe for strangers to ask when i'm due, instead of them just looking at me and wondering, "is she having a baby or did she just eat too much for lunch?" according to our weekly updates, baby girl is now the length of a banana and her big accomplishment this week: swallowing. yup, workin' that digestive system. you go girl.

i really have loved being pregnant, especially after the first trimester (which, as i think back on it now, wasn't all that bad!) lately, my back being sore & restless sleep are my only complaints, but it's something i can definitely deal with. my only "real" complaint is i haven't "felt" baby girl move yet. and we know she's moving! she did plenty of that during the ultrasound, and when i went to my doctor the next day, he could hear her moving as we listened to the heartbeat. it's just a matter of me feeling it. a majority of people describe it as "butterflies in your stomach" which i have had none of. i have just had little pangs that aren't too painful, but seem like they're more from my uterus stretching than baby doin' a little dance in there. so hopefully soon, i will know without a doubt that that was our baby girl moving!

everyone keeps asking if i have any cravings... i at first said no. i'm often hungry, but give me a menu at a restaurant and it would take me an hour to narrow down my choice! maybe that's because i'm just indecisive in general. but lately, i've had some very specific cravings. and kyle has too :) we've both been loving pickles. we've finished 2 jars already! and i can't tell you how good sour candy tastes to me - sour patch kids, runts, etc. i find myself stopping at the 25cent machines just to grab some candy. not the healthiest things, but oh they do taste good!

thank you so much for all your congratulations & comments about the video. we are beyond excited for our little baby girl and feel so loved that all of you are looking forward to her arrival, too! i realized we mentioned that we found out we're having a girl but forgot to mention that the doctor told us that, from what she could see in the ultrasound, she's a very healthy baby girl! all her fingers & toes are accounted for, brain, heart, kidneys, bones, etc all look good. it's absolutely amazing the detail we could see and all the information the doctor could get from the ultrasound.

so overall, at 5 months, mama, dad and baby are all doing great. i've started brainstorming already for the nursery and am ready to get going. i think i'm a natural nester, so when that phase sets in, watch out kyle!!

ps-
i like how many of you voted in the poll even after we announced it was a girl :) and a few people even still guessed boy... but most of you were right, baby morgan's a baby girl!