yikes...the 3rd trimester is here...

I'm officially in my 3rd trimester! Can you believe it? I know I can't! Where did the 2nd trimester go??? I had another doctor appointment today, so mark off my 6 month visit. They tested for gestational diabetes and anemia...I have neither and all else looks healthy. I got to hear her heartbeat again and the doctor says she sounds like a good baby.

Baby Girl Amen is awake a lot more now. I used to only feel her a couple times a day, but now I'm feeling her more often. And when I feel her now, it's very noticeable. I was laying on the couch last night and started to feel her wake up, so I lifted up my shirt to watch my tummy. After about 5 minutes I was laughing out loud at how crazy she was being. It's the coolest and weirdest thing to look down and see something moving, kicking, punching from the inside of my belly! She was pretty active for about a full 20 minutes, which was the longest she'd been playful up to that point. I LOVE it all! I LOVE being pregnant with this little girl!

I keep coming across pictures of Josh and I from the past couple of years. It's so much fun, but so hard to look at them all. They make me smile and cry all at the same time. My love for Josh is so strong it's hard to even imagine that we've been apart for a little over 5 months already. I still feel like he should be coming home any time now. I miss him so much. Usually when Baby Girl Amen starts kicking I talk to Josh as if he was still here and ask him "if he felt that too." It sounds silly, but he's the only one I have to share it with and the only one I really want to share it with. I know he's just as excited about every kick as I am, so I'll keep talking to him because I feel like he's here with me through it all.