Future Kick-Boxer!

Happy Monday!
What a beautiful weekend - in so many ways!

Friday, Zig and I didn't get much time together, as I had to rush home from school, eat quickly on my own, then rush back to school to chaperone the 70's Dance from 6:00-8:00! By the time I got home, we were so exhausted that we had an early night in bed!

Saturday, we awoke to beautiful sunshine and warm breezes in Burnham! The day was forecasted to be a great one, but I didn't realize just how good the sunshine would feel! We took our time getting ready in the morning, then went out for a nice lunch together.
Since we had lots of time in the afternoon, we decided to go to Belltown to visit with Zig's Dad and Grandparents.
Zig worries - all the time - about his Dad who is suffering from Pancreatic Cancer. He was diagnosed shortly after our wedding in January 2007, and has been pretty sick ever since. He has good days - but even more bad days...and sometimes Zig feels so helpless.
When we got there on Saturday, he was laying in a porch chair out in the sun! "Vitamin C!," he said! I guess the sunshine and warm weather was good for everyone this weekend!

We headed home, made a nice supper together, and relaxed for the rest of the evening. It would have been a perfect night for our first 'patio party' in Burnham, but everyone seemed to have other things to do...

At this stage in my pregnancy, as my belly gets bigger by the day and I continue to feel twinges of growth of this baby, I have been patiently waiting to feel the first kicks and punches from our little critter!
Saturday evening, I was laying very still on the couch, actually thinking about wanting to feel the baby kick, when I felt it...
Three small 'flicks' from inside of my belly, low down underneath my belly button! I wasn't sure if I had felt it or not, but I told Zig and just layed still to see if it would happen again!
All night Saturday, into the morning on Sunday, and anytime I was laying still enough to feel it Sunday afternoon - this baby kept kicking away!

The kicks aren't anything I can feel when I'm up and moving around. They are very faint... The feeling is unlike anything anyone told me to expect! It's definitely not the butterflies, or the popcorn, or the gas... It literally felt like someone was moving around inside of me, and kicking me every time it moved!

Last night, the baby was kicking away soon after Zig and I had eaten! Although I wasn't sure whether the kicks would be significant enough for him to feel from outside of my belly or not, I asked him to come sit with me on the couch with his hand on my stomach. With one really big kick, Zig thought he might have felt something! He wasn't sure because he said it only felt like a heartbeat or a pulse... Since that's kind of what it feels like from inside - I think he felt it too! He just looked at me with wide-open eyes... This baby already loves his Daddy!

It's crazy that waiting to feel these little movements are the last thing I'm thinking about when I'm falling asleep, and the first thing that crosses my mind when I'm waking up! I wondered if I would be able to feel anything during the school day today, and I was!
My 5th period class - which is the class that seems to be most excited about the pregnancy AND the class that is studying the "Baby Chapter" with me in Health class - was reviewing the content from our first two lessons in this chapter when I stopped in my tracks after having felt the biggest kick yet! I was mid sentence - and stopped talking when I yelled - the kick had really caught me off guard! My kids just giggled...

All afternoon this baby was swimming around! These feelings are the most amazing thing I've ever felt in my life! Obviously, it's the first time I've known this feeling and it is such a beautiful thing to know that I am the only one who can feel it! The bond that I feel with this kid is already indescribable!

In other news - NO NEWS really is GOOD NEWS! We heard NOTHING from Dr. Grill's office about our Quad Screen test that they ran last week! They told us that if anything abnormal showed up in the blood work (like Downs, etc...) we would be notified by Friday! Friday came and went - and so did today with no word from the doctor! Thank the Lord...

In less than two weeks, we will know whether this little critter is a boy or a girl! I can't wait!
And 3 weeks from today, we'll be visiting Dr. Grill again! Time really is flying by! It'll be September before we know it!
Until then...I'm enjoying every single second!