19 weeks 1 day

Can I just say how surreal it is to think that I am 1 week away from hitting the half-way mark?!
Here are the current details:

Even after being on vacation for a week I'm still down 4 lbs from my pre-IUI weight (I'm at 173.5). I'm hoping my doctor doesn't yell at me on Friday. It's not like I haven't been eating and I don't have nausea, it's just all going somewhere...I just don't know where.

I'm fully in maternity clothes. There is no way I can not wear them. Fortunately the clothes I bought for summer are all stretchy, so I am still wearing them and probably will be able to continue to do so. Matt's aunt brought me a bag of maternity clothes. I guess she shops a lot there and just finds there clothes to be more comfortable. So I got 2 really cute shirt-dresses and a couple of nice tops.

I think we may have a water baby on our hands (not surprising considering I'm a water rat). The kid loved being in the ocean! I would get out after a couple of hours of jumping waves and floating around and the kid would not sit still.

I took the doppler on vacation and every time I would check it would take me a good 5 minutes to find even a faint heartbeat, I think it was just how they were laying. I got home last night (13 hour drive), popped the doppler on and BOOM! heartbeat was right there. I don't know if the difference in altitude has anything to do with it. I think this kid is glad to be home; they haven't stopped kicking since I climbed into bed last night.

Of course I didn't get a picture of me in my swim suit. There were only about 10 cameras around and not one picture of my belly or a nice one of Matt and I. Matt did get one of me in my regular clothes...so that's the best I've got.