22 Weeks

New pictures to post! This week we went on vacation to Bishop with the whole family. Prior to leaving, I had a check-up appointment with the perinatologist and my mom was able to come with me since Eddie had to work. We both got to see Joshua on the ultrasound and he looked great. He measured within the average range for his size and weight. His weight was almost one pound! I didn't get a picture to take with me from that appointment, but I was told that I will have plenty of pictures to come since I will be seen every two weeks and they will perform an ultrasound each time.

Eddie and I drove to Bishop a day ahead of my parents, Alan and Cassie and the girls, and Travis and Natalie and the boys, so that we could meet Ben, Sonya, and McKinley who were also arriving a day early. The drive was quite the experience as we had to stop six times for potty breaks for me, a wonderful side effect of staying hydrated and being pregnant. I now know of all the main bathrooms and rest stops at one hour intervals on the way to Bishop.

The next day with Ben and Sonya we visited one of my favorite places in town, Schat's Bakery and Sonya and I took our 22 week pregnancy picture.

The next few days were filled with a lot of fishing and relaxing for me. I loved spending time with the whole family together and the scenery was beautiful:

On the way up to the cabin.

However, on the third night, I woke up with what I later found out in the emergency room, were symptoms of acute mountain sickness. That then led to an adventure of finding no hotel room for the night (every hotel was booked), my throwing up on myself trying to go back up the mountain, napping in a Vons parking lot, buying new clothes at a K-Mart, napping some more in another parking lot, being woken by a Jehovah's Witness woman passing out fliers (she dropped a flier through the cracked window onto Eddie), finally finding a hotel room, and finally sleeping in a bed at an altitude my body could handle. 

In other news, Eddie finally felt Joshua kick for the first time! It was just one kick, but it was a good one. We were just about to fall asleep after the long day of trying to nap in parking lots and Joshua started kicking around so I told Eddie to hold his hand on my belly and be patient. So he waited and just when I thought maybe he wouldn't get to feel him, Joshua kicked hard. Eddie was really happy and I felt so glad that he could share in what I get to experience all the time. Joshua is one active little baby boy. So thankful for that reassurance of feeling him move around inside my belly.