19 weeks, Paintings for Braden, and more

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted-lets just say this week has been ten times better than last week.

Here are the 19 weeks photos.  Like I said last time no more front shots-they make me look bigger than I really am-although I am pretty big.  I feel Lil Baby Boy Braden kicking me in there. I let Brad feel him kick last night but I guess it is just so light that I can only feel him.

These are some paintings that we are hoping Meredith will be painting for Braden's room.

This scoreboard will be hung above the changing table.

It is hard to choose one of the following two pictures.  So we may paint the red one for the room and then downsize the other one (league) for his bathroom.

We will paint this for Braden's bedroom door-but match the colors of his room.

The last thing that I would like to do is paint 

"TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME"

above the window that his bed will be in front of-

but we are not sure it will fit with the curtains and all.

So we may put it on the other side of his bed.  

I think we have it all thought out now it is time to really get busy.  I am almost 20 weeks and still feel great.  I had a very hard time this past weekend at Meredith's bachelorette party.  Saturday I got up and we ran/walked more walk than run because I was having a horrible pain in my right side.  Almost like a never ending side stitch.  So I ended up calling my doctor and the nurse told me to take it easy for a few days.  So I took a few days off of running but now I am back at it.  I can't run for long periods of time but Meredith helps push me to do what I can do.

It is really hard to get comfortable-my upper back seems to hurt a lot.  I think it is from sitting at the computer all day and not sitting with my shoulders back.  I might try to sit on a stability ball at work for a few hours each day to make me keep good posture and keep my abdominals tight.  Nights seem to be really hard-I can't seem to find a position that I can sleep in-I wake up and I am flat on my back.  And I have been told to stay off my back.  

This weekend is July 4th.  Brad has to work Saturday at the fire station.  I will get up Saturday and go to Logan Martin with Janice and Sam and the rest of the family crew.  I will hang out there all day Saturday and then go stay at Janice's house and meet Brad the next morning to go back out there.