14 weeks

Today is 14 weeks. According to my pregnancy website I visit often, babycenter.com, I learned that the baby is about the size of a lemon (3 1/2 inches) long and is now peeing, grimacing, facial features are forming, moving about, and possibly even sucking his/her thumb. I also read that an average pregnant woman, who is either in her 2nd or more pregnancy and/or slender at pregnancy can start to feel movements at this time. However, I'm neither of these things, but for the past few days, only when I'm completely relaxed, either driving or riding in a car, sitting watching tv or relaxing or lying down to go to bed, I feel like I have butterflies in my stomach. But it's very brief and usually only 1-2 times per day. I've been noticing it so I read in my book (Pregnancy & You) that this is common and is indeed the baby movements that I'm feeling and it's called "lightening". It says that 100 women will describe it 100 different ways, but one of the most common is "butterflies in your stomach". So, baby is apparently active.
Also, this past week, I've noticed that the skin around my hips that goes around my pelvic area is starting to tighten, up under my belly. And, when I got out of the shower a couple of days ago, I noticed my stomach looking different so I asked Chuck and he saw the same thing. I had him to explain what was different, without telling him what I thought, and he described the same thing I saw. My stomach appears to be lower and more up front vs around my waist. Which is exactly what my doctor said I would do, given my weight and size going into pregnancy. She described that I would probably look like I was smuggling a basketball. In addition, I've always heard girls are carried lower, and it's all definitely lower at this point. If you've never seen me naked (which if you haven't consider yourself very very very lucky!) then you'd probably never notice it. Hopefully by end of July, first of August, I will show pregnant and I will take a pic to prove!
The only other exciting thing to happen this past week has been that we got our crib. It's great and I love it. Our dear dear longtime family friend, who is just like a sister, gave us hers that she used with her youngest son, who is now 3 1/2 years old. It's the crib that has the chest and changing table attached, so it's all one piece of furniture, which is great. It's at mom and dad's right now and I'm going to clean it up, dad's going to do a few little repairs to it (replacing some screws, making sure the drawers roll right) and it will be perfect. Can't wait to decorate the little one's room! I'll take some pics of it when I go over to work on it and post them.
Any many thanks to Jill for the crib! And to Anthony for giving up his "baby boy" bed! :)