Julie @ 20 weeks

OK. Here's the next installment of the pregnancy chronicles. We took this picture today, which, by our calculations, is precisely 20 weeks and 3 days.


Julie experienced the "quickening" a few weeks ago, and now she's feeling little Aloise moving several times a day. Aloise is most active when Julie is lying down trying to relax! I've only felt her kick once because most of her movements are still too subtle to be felt from the outside.


Julie's appetite is good, and she's taking a nap every day, so her temperament has been good overall. In terms of belly size, she's self-conscious because she's right on the cusp between appearing to have a giant paunch and appearing to be obviously pregnant. Hopefully, it'll only be another few weeks before she really feels like she looks pregnant instead of just fat.

I hope my candor doesn't get me in trouble, but maybe I can encourage heavier traffic on the blog by "juicing it up" a bit. We're really looking forward to some of you other folks out there adding some posts! Julie's family is putting ours to shame because all of them post all of the time on their family blog.