We're Halfway There

20 weeks!

With this pregnancy already half-over, it seems like it's time for a bit of an update!  

Overall, I've felt great since the early weeks.  There was one rough weekend of up-chucking, but since then everything has been pretty smooth.  The hatred of onions marking both my previous pregnancies hasn't returned, and I'm so thankful that I've been able to enjoy the pregnancy-heightened-sense-of-smell for the most part!  It has made it easier both for cooking and changing stinky diapers, and I'm so thankful.

It was also quite fun to feel movement from earlier on this time!  There were some tap-taps that I debated about around 11 weeks, but at 15 weeks they started becoming regular and unmistakable.  

I was very tired, especially during the first trimester.  I don't think my energy has come back quite like it did the last time, either.  But even though I have an active toddler to take care of, she takes good naps in the afternoons, and I've been able to nap when I've needed to, also.  The house is not cleaned quite as often or as thoroughly as it used to be. but that's the way it has to be for now.

Last week, I knit our new daughter her own hat!  

It's from the same pattern I used last year for some gift hats and then for Gemma, and I love it.  :)  I was also really happy to use some more of the hand-dyed Merino superwash that I bought last summer.  It's such pretty yarn, and I love that our little girl gets a hat from it, too!  (I think there's enough left for one more hat, in fact!)  The only thing I'm not crazy about is how the yarn starts to stripe toward the crown . . . oh well.  I decided to leave off the tie-strings for now.

In many ways, finding out that we're having another girl has been a bit relieving.  I won't need to adjust the nursery other than adding a little floor-bed for Gemma, and she and her baby sister already have matching pink gingham crib sheets.  :)  I was looking forward to making some baby boy gowns from John's cast-off tees, so that's a project that will have to wait, but there are plenty of others to tide me over in the mean time. Christmas baby does need her own special quilt.  :)  And I do want to start on some Christmas gifts, too!