Busy...

I think everyone is busy this time of year but it seems like the past few weeks have flown by. We have had Simon & Ellie for almost two weeks, family in town for the holidays, and Sean started a new job in new car sales at Park Place Mercedes! He has only been in training so far but loves it.

I am almost 6 months along and feel great! All of my mommy friends tell me to enjoy the second trimester and how I feel now because the third trimester tends to be a little more uncomfortable. I have energy, am used to being pregnant, and am amazed daily as I feel the baby move all the time. Sean felt the baby kick for the first time on Chirstmas Day. It was the best present we could have wished for! The look on his face was priceless and I will never forget it.

I have pictures to post from Simon's basketball game and Ellie's holiday dance performance from two weeks ago, Christmas, and will have some from New Year's Eve. My camera battery died so it is charging now and I promise to post pictures soon. In the meantime, here is what babycenter.com says about how our baby boy is developing at 23 weeks:

How your baby's growing:
Turn on the radio and sway to the music. With his sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance. And now that he's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango), you may be able to see him squirm underneath your clothes. Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that your baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing him for entry into the outside world. Loud noises that become familiar now — such as your dog barking or the roar of the vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze him when he hears them outside the womb.

I love that he can hear our voices and is getting used to the normal sounds of the house. My mom says that I need to read to him and I told her that he gets read to and Kindergarten lessons every day when I am at school! Speaking of, I have to get ready now. I am having lunch with my friend Courtney that I used to teach with at City Park. She lives in Frisco now and is a busy stay at home mom with her 1 year old Jacob so we don't get to see each other as much as we would like!

Happy New Year!