Week 19

It's actually more like 19.5 weeks by the time I'm finally sitting down to write this. It's been an eventful past week and a half and I've found myself putting this entry off.  As I'm sure you all know, we lost my Grandmom Hamilton early Thursday morning.  Although I felt like I knew this was coming very shortly it still didn't make it any easier for some reason.  I've been so lucky to have all four grandparents for the first 24 years of my life and felt so blessed to see both couples dancing at our wedding.  All of Andy's grandparents passed away when he was younger or before he was born so I think he has also adopted mine as his own, as they have adopted him as well.  I so wish Grandmom could've met baby Harper but I know she'll be up there as her little guardian angel.  Bailey and Erica were so sweet to send flowers to the funeral and the basket had a little ceramic angel in it which I'm going to put on a shelf in the nursery :)  It's been a hard couple days but our house has been full of family and love which has definitely been a welcome distraction that I think everyone has enjoyed.  We will miss Grandmom so, so much but know she is in the best place now.

On the baby front, I think I am feeling some movement.  I know everyone says it feels fluttery but I am seriously thinking I felt 3 thuds the other night when I laid down to bed.  And everyone in my family legitimately has seen the bump now.  Depending on how baby is sitting, when I lay down on my back, I can sometimes have a flat tummy and sometimes it will look like a little softball is sitting right below my belly button.  It's pretty neat to see and my dresses I wore for the funeral and visitation definitely showed it as well.  It's definitely still an awkward stage though where I'm just feeling kinda chubby.  People who know I'm pregnant will obviously assume it's a baby bump but I don't think strangers would guess that there's a baby in there just yet.  I'm looking forward to the next few weeks as I know baby is going to start growing pretty rapidly!

She got her first personalized outfit from one of my mom's coworkers this past week! It's a onesie with some pink feet embroidered on it and Harper Leigh... too sweet.  I love, love personalized things so I have a feeling this will be one of many more to come!  Olivia's latest purchase is a bib that says, "Are these people really my relatives?"  That's for whenever the brothers get to babysit... ;)  We've had a baby in the house for the past couple days so I think that's been fun for everyone, getting to imagine what it's going to be like soon! Andy has officially held his second baby and was looking like a natural :)  David was also looking pretty comfortable with baby and I believe I overheard Mom mentioning that it would be nice at Christmas to have one grandbaby and another on the way ;)  It's going to be so fun to have a new little generation of babies when we're at my parents house!  I loved having so many cousins when I was growing up so we're hoping that all of my siblings end up close enough that our kids will play all the time!

Here's our update for the week! :)
How far along: 19

Total Weight Gain: 7... enjoy this until week 20 cause then it disappears ;)

Stretchmarks: None 

Sleep: Pretty great!

Best Moment This Week: potentially feeling baby move?!

Movement: I really think it was baby moving but I'll report back if we feel more of it

Gender: Baby girl!!

Labor Signs: Nope
Belly Button: In... Olivia told me she's going to Band-aid my belly button in whenever it becomes an outtie :(
What I Miss: Gmom
What I am Looking Forward to: Doctors appointment on the 20th and ultrasound on the 22nd!

Milestones: Size of a mango