Growing in fits

I really expected my stomach to expand gradually. It just makes sense. But that's not how it seems to happen. When I started showing, it really did seem like the baby belly appeared overnight. I went to bed on a Friday looking normal and woke up on Saturday with a baby belly. The same thing seemed to have happened over the weekend. We were in L.A. for a brief visit with my parents and when we got back on Sunday, Chris and I both realized that my belly was suddenly looking bigger than it had on Friday. Just kaboom, bigger. Even my sister noticed when she picked us up at the airport. So weird. Good thing those maternity pants I ordered came in. I am definitely not fitting into my pre-pregnancy pants, at least not without flashing my underwear to the world.

Ptery was really active all weekend. At one point, during our flight back, I felt kicks/punches in just about every quadrant of my belly, rapid-fire. Usually, the kicks are confined to one general area, like she's testing a leg or an arm. This time, it felt like she'd figured out all her limbs and was just flailing around like a crazy thing. It was like hosting a phalanx of Rockettes in my belly.