18 weeks and 2 days
I think I look a little bigger? Definitely rounder. :) Apparently after 20 weeks, growth becomes a lot more regular and not as sporadic as it has been. I think I got really big fast and that it's slowed down a bit. I remember lots of pregnant women saying that they "popped." I don't think I ever popped. I feel like I've always been big!

I think that I can feel the baby kicking now. I've read that first time mothers mistake gas for the baby kicking, so when I felt the moving, I just assumed that I was making it all up and that it wasn't the baby! Now that I think about it, I think it's the baby moving. It's not very regular, but I do feel something going on down there! I've also read that movement can't be felt until 20 weeks, so it really makes me wonder. It feels like a tap coming from the inside of my belly and sometimes it's multiple taps, but it's very light. A friend of mine said that she could feel kicking at around 4 1/2 months, but apparently that's really early and she knew it was the baby because she was very in tune with her body, then there's me...I had no idea that I was even pregnant until I was a few days late! I don't think I just know these things, so I didn't think it was the baby at first! It's been going on for a couple of weeks now. Apparently movement will get more regular soon...I can't wait!

We had a great weekend. On Friday night, we went to the Salt Lick for dinner (yum!) and to the Shakira concert in San Antonio. The show was about an hour and 45 minutes long and in that time span, she sang 4 songs in English and the rest in Spanish. Even though we didn't understand much of it, we had a great time and she sounded great. Yep, that girl can move. The baby started kicking at the beginning of the concert and kicked a lot right before the last song, "Hips Don't Lie." Maybe the baby will turn out to be a latina superstar. :) Wyclef Jean actually came out and sang the lost song with her, the atmosphere at the AT&T center was amazing. We had a really good time. One of the highlights of Friday night came before the concert though. We went with a couple of friends of ours and when the guy saw me, he exclaimed, "You look pregnant!" I told him that he should say that I look good, not pregnant! I guess he hasn't seen me since I was 8 weeks along. :)

On Saturday, we went to Four Hands for their quarterly warehouse sale. There were a couple of things that we really liked, but we decided to hold off on until we move. We've picked out a few things already that we liked and hopefully they'll still be there the next time around. We're going to get our leather kitchen table chairs there, maybe a table too if they still have the one that we liked in the showroom, orange theatre chairs (hook 'em horns!), artwork, and a wrought iron swirly screen.

Afterwards, we headed over to the house and they've started bricking. The sheet rock isn't up yet, but hopefully it'll be soon. I can't wait for the house to be done...two more months left.
We then headed over to San Marcos and went to the Crate & Barrel outlet store. They've got really good deals on their linens, we'll definitely have to keep them in mind once we get settled into the house. We also went to the Pottery Barn outlet. They had a sale that was 25% off of everything in the store. They have stuff from Pottery Barn kids, West Elm and Williams and Sonoma. The place was packed with stuff. We found a couch that we really liked as well as a wrought iron fireplace grate. I can't wait to go house shopping!!!

For dinner, we went to Eastside Cafe. I love that place! Since I've been good and haven't had a pumpkin spice latte yet, we got the pumpkin gingerbread for dessert. It was so good, it was like eating carrot cake without the cream cheese icing.

Today we were suppose to meet with the dog trainer, but she never showed! I need to start looking for someone else. I'm not really that surprised though, she didn't call to confirm the appointment, oh well, she lost our business.

We ended up watching Jet Li's Fearless. This baby is definitely Chinese, I got kicked throughout the whole movie! I don't know if it was the movie, or the almond milk tea that I had before the movie, but the baby was going nuts! I wouldn't mind the baby becoming a martial arts genius. :) Hehe...no expectations here!

I've experienced a few more pregnancy side effects. I am down from wearing my three rings (engagement and two bands) to only wearing the largest band because it's the only one that fits! I'm glad that we bought it back in February, I would be really sad if I couldn't wear rings anymore. The other side effect is that my feet have gotten bigger! I'm up a full shoe size. I had to go out and buy new shoes today because there was no way that I was going to fit into my old shoes anymore! Another side effect is that my belly has gotten hairer! I read online that when people take professional pregnancy photos that they shave their bellies! I showed my waxist this weekend and she just laughed at me and said that she might start offering pregnancy belly waxing. Maybe I've started a new trend! I've also gotten the vertical line on my belly that runs through my belly button. It's not that big of a deal, even though I don't know why it's there, but what really bothers me is that it's not centered, it's crooked! I'm a big symmetry fan and it drives me crazy! Oh well...marks of motherhood I suppose.