18 Weeks

I'm 18 weeks along today with "new baby" (that's his name for now - we're going to be last minute on making a name decision again). I've been feeling pretty good lately. I'm not as tired and haven't had any nausea in awhile. My back is starting to hurt, but it's manageable. Carter has been really clingy lately and wants to be picked up a lot so that's just wearing me out. I can occasionally feel new baby move a little, but it's nothing significant or consistent yet.

Here's a belly picture from today as well as the picture from 16 weeks:

18 weeks ...


16 weeks ...


Brian and I picked up paint for Carter's new room yesterday. I was able to get it all taped during Carter's nap this afternoon and will probably start painting the edging tomorrow. The colors we picked out are Glidden colors, but we had Lowe's match them with Olympic paint since it has no VOCs and is very low odor. I helped paint Carter's current nursery with Olympic paint when I was pregnant with him and it seemed plenty safe.



We finally got Carter eating some meat other than ham this past week. He ate a hot dog, Chick-fil-A nuggets, and some of my cheeseburger from Five Guys. I've been resisting offering him this type of food because I don't think it's really that healthy for him, but I know he also needs more protein in his diet. Carter always had a vegetable before these so he's still eating some healthy food with each meal. I know having this stuff once in a while isn't bad, I just don't want him to only like this sort of food and it become a fight to eat healthier stuff.

I can't believe it, but I'm still nursing Carter too. He just refuses to drink milk and I refuse to let him get dehydrated so end up giving him water and nursing him. Hopefully we'll have a breakthrough soon!