Mommy's Little Helper

Emily loves to help around the house. Over the past few months, she has started to do more and more. Her regular chores include helping me hang up clothes, loading/unloading the silverware in the dishwasher, sweeping, loading the washing machine, and picking up her toys. I love that she wants to help me around the house, not that she always makes things easier, but they are more enjoyable. Which is a big plus for someone who dislikes housework as much as I do.

Emily helping me reminds me of myself when I was little. I have pictures of myself when I was around 3 or 4 years old in a Hawaiian dress, big floppy hat, and my toy push mower that I used to vacuum the floors with. They used to call me "Sadie the Cleaning Lady". I have no idea where that came from, but I remember it. If I was a good blogger, I would take this moment to upload a picture of myself dressed as Sadie and place it next to a photo of Emily helping to sweep up the floors, but I think we all know not to expect so much out of me.

Knock Knock...

So I am now in my 21st week in pregnancy. I can't believe time has flown by so quickly! I started feeling the baby move about 4 weeks ago, but he's been moving more and more lately. It's not consistent or hard enough for anyone else to feel it yet, but I'm sure it will be soon. I don't remember if this one is moving around more than Emily did. It's amazing how quickly I've forgotten.

After reading the previous paragraph, you may have noticed that I used the pronoun "he". Don't get excited though... we had an ultrasound yesterday, but we decided not to find out the sex, so we're not sure if there's a girl or a boy on the way. I just don't want to refer to the baby as "it" for the next 4 1/2 months, so I guess the pronoun will change with my mood from here on out.

The doctor says the baby looks great, and her size is right on, so she's right on schedule to whenever she feels like in mid-July. (See I switched it up already...)

To answer the question I've heard a lot already, no I am not really showing yet. Looks like a repeat of the last time around. I'm a little surprised though, since I definitely haven't had time to work on my abs much between the pregnancies, and everyone says you show more the second time around. Not showing definitely has its benefits though... I am still able to sleep on my stomach, which is great because I'm still able to sleep well at night. I guess the major disadvantage is that it's not obvious by looking at me that I'm pregnant... I don't think most people at work know, and the ones who don't probably think I've just fallen off the Weight Watchers wagon or something.

I haven't had a chance to post the pictures from the ultrasound yet, but I'll try to get them together so I can share them with everyone. There aren't any very good ones this time around though because there were some communication problems between the baby and the technician, but we got a picture of the feet, the spine/body from behind, and a thumbs up.