just thinkin about the baby

34 weeks.

just 6 short weeks (lets hope they're short) before she comes to stay.

I find myself often trying to explain to Cody what this new feeling is. For the past four months I've used words like: weird, exciting, funny, wonder, amazing, pokey, strange and love (I know---, I've got a great vocabulary). But recently I was reading a friends blog who is also expecting, and as I read her post I felt as if she were taking the words right out of my mouth.

It's so strange to feel a brand new feeling as an adult, its seems as though we've all physically felt everything. I know what it feels like to get a paper cut, to suffer a fever, to have a broke heart, to lay out in the sun, to run a mile, to blow out candles on your Birthday, to be homesick, to sleep in a little too late, to be stuffed from Thanksgiving, to bite into something that is too hot, to have glue stuck to your fingers, to have your back scratched, to have a sunburn, to hit your funny bone, to have goosebumps, to lose a tooth or to fall in love.

The feeling of a little miniature person living inside of me is something I've never felt nor could ever imagine, and at times hard to describe. It has gone from little taps and small kicks.....to my entire stomach changing position and waves of movement across my belly. I feel her kick my bladder, my ribs, my back, and my sides.... sometimes all at the same time. Her little hiccups tickle my insides several times a day and remind me she is in there waiting to come out. Because she is resting right in the middle of my body (not poking herself out too far) I feel her presence against my lungs and often find myself out of breath for no reason at all. With every jab, kick, or change of position she makes-- it brings a smile to my face. Although at times I'm not too comfortable, this is one of the best feeling I've ever felt.