week 21

Boy, do we have a mover and a shaker. Its a true California kid growing in my belly right now, he's all about going 90mph during an earthquake. I think that is going to be his nickname, Earthquake. I've been able to feel him move around, started about 2 weeks ago, the feelings are getting stronger and are happening more and more often. Its more than just the fluttering now. He's straight up doing the backstroke and kicking around, lounging around inside his personal jucuzzi. He's a big and healthy boy. We had a dr appt yesterday. His heart rate was in the 140's. My weight gain is officially at 13 pounds. No comment. Its all for the baby is what I keep telling myself. He's growing and moving all around.
Kim and I have really got a new look on the pregnancy since we've felt the baby move. The first time Kim was able to feel a punch it was so exciting. It made this more than just, "Oh yeah we're pregnant". There's really a baby in there, our baby. Our little Gavin. It made it more exciting and now we are just filled with anticipation and fright.
I would like to give a big shout out to Heather. She gave me a HUGE bag full of 0-3 months boys clothes. Oh my gosh and she gave me all the little sports stuff that say "little slugger" and "future quarterback" plus, a bunch of clothes with little doggies like Crash on it. So big shout out, I think we're gonna be able to get by 0-3 months now. So we can now switch our focus to getting 3-6 and on now. Thank you Heather for having a baby 7 months before me!
Other then that, we're in full holiday swing. HOpefully everyone has gotten their christmas card by now. Let me know if you didn't, and I'll figure out why not. I'm getting ready to fly home for the holidays, Kim is unfortunetly not coming with me but because he's working now, he should be able to see the baby born. Then, we're out of the military and he'll be around all the time. Which is great, because I'm going my 9 months....he gets the next 9 months!