What's happenin at 15 weeks

So, yeah, I'm pregnant!  I haven't written anything about it so I thought I'd be boring and write how it's going so far.  15.5 weeks (yes that 0.5 is important) and things are great.  I really don't get morning sickness at all, and I do feel kinda guilty about that cause I see what it does to my dear friends, and I am so sorry!  I have, however, gotten a lot of headaches with this one (and Tylenol is the single thing you are allowed to take for them when you're pregnant, did you know that?  I looked it up on several websites) well Tylenol does next to nothing for me and I was so desperate one night I put a banana peel on my forehead, something I heard can help... and you know what I think it did!  Maybe!  Psychologically anyway?!  Anyhow they've gotten a lot better though.  I've just been super tired (imagine!) and super hungry, and I always want stuff like chicken noodle soup or spaghettios, stuff I grew up eating.  Well that or RED MEAT!  Gimme some protein.  YUM!  Right after we got back from D.C. I was very lightheaded for a few days, I don't really know what that was about, but it's mostly better.  But the fatigue usually disappears right around 13 weeks, but not this time... I am still SO TIRED!!!  It blows my mind that I ran while I was pregnant with Kaitlyn (the only one).  I ran consistently until I was 27 weeks along.  Yeah right now I cannot even picture getting off the couch!!!  I asked Santa for my energy back for Christmas, and I tell you, he really let me down. 

I really really want to be careful how I word things because I absolutely do not want to complain, I am so grateful for this little babe, and my pregnancies really are cake compared to many.  As I sat and watched my last ultrasound at 13 weeks, I just stared at that little baby (and it definitely looks like a little baby, that profile just melted my heart) as it kicked and bounced around and I was just in awe.  Early on it is hard to believe anything is in there, so when that picture appears I am always like WHOA HOLY COW I mean that thing is growing inside me right now!  It's a miracle.  In the last week I definitely feel like I am starting to show, and when I roll onto my stomach at night I can feel a little pouch of something.  I've always felt my babies move early on, right around that 16 week mark, at least that's when I look for it.  I thought I felt it the other night, just the slightest flutter, and I keep looking for it again.  I love that the word for it is a "quickening."  The definition is "the process of showing signs of life" or "to make alive."  Feeling something alive inside, for the first time, is so unreal.  It is exciting, it is fleeting, it is full of wonder- was that it?  or indigestion?!  I know it's debatable for some, but definitely not for me- there is a spirit in there! 

I am excited, and yes a little scared! to be a mother of 5.  Who will this little person be????  Who will be the next face to kiss and squeeze and wipe and love and adore??  And is it a boy or girl?  Well I shall tell you in 2 weeks. :)

I'm posting pics from a month ago that my sis-in-law took of our munchkins!  Thanks Danielle!