We have movement - I think. ;)

I have been feeling little flutters and twinges for a couple of weeks now that I think might be baby, but I'm not totally sure. Last night though, I felt a pretty solid thump in the lower abdomen that I can't think might be anything but baby. Yay! I am thrilled to be at the feeling movement stage.

Natalya is getting more and more excited about the baby. She tells me, "Mommy, I love it when my baby comes". Silly goose. I tell her she's got a while to go before that happens, but I explained that she might be able to feel the baby moving around soon and she was very sxcited about that. She asks about the baby all the time and every time she sees someone that is not me or Doug, she informs them, "You know, the baby in Mommy's tummy is going to be a brother or a sister". Even if she's told them this a thousand times before. :) It's possible she's told my grandfather this at least 50 times.

My mother had the privelege of babysitting Natalya Friday night while Doug and I had a parent's getaway. We went to spend the night at the Opryland Hotel (super discount thanks to my Mom) and dinner at the Melting Pot, then Saturday went to go see Indiana jones and walked around the mall a little bit.
At any rate, my mom tells my yesterday that she thinks it's funny because Natalya is like me when I was a child, but more-so. For example, as a child, I always had adult mannerisms, but she says Natalya is like an extreme version of me. So where I had the adult mannerisms, N has them ten times more than I did.

Right now she is "talking" on her phone and she is talking to grandma (or so she tells me) and she is telling Grandma about her birthday cake that she is going to have and asked Grandma what kind of cake it should be and apparently Grandma told her chocolate. LOL! (I love her entire imagined conversations)

The other day she was doing something I told her not to do because I didn't want her to get hurt (can't remember what it was) and she fell. All of a sudden she hollars "I'M OKAY!" I couldn't even see her. I just heard her yell that. It was so funny.

With each day that passes I get more and more excited about having another baby. The fear of loss lessens and the excitement replaces it. I still am nervous, and expect I will be regardless, but it is nice to be excited for the child that is to come without being worried and obsessed about the child that is lost.