Our lil Orange Now!

Elatia is now 15 1/2 weeks & the baby is the size of an orange. Her belly is noticeably bigger. I really need to post pics here! She still isn't really feeling any movement from the baby, you'd think she would with it being the size of an orange!

A friend I went to middle & high school with, her daughter is due a day after Elatia and her daughter is feeling movement! SO the race is on! And apparently we are falling behind! Doh! Elatia did once have that being on a roller coaster kind of feeling, but that's been it. When I was pregnant with her, I felt her moving right around 12 weeks. She definitely wanted to let me know she was there, she poked me! No butterfly feeling, it was pokes! Now Andrew I didn't feel till way later. He was more text book...until he was born.

Earlier this week I had a couple dreams about the grand-baby, weird ass dreams too, BUT it was the feeling I was left with that I focused on, not the weird ass part. Come to find out, Martin had several dreams about the baby as well. His were weird ass too! With mine, I was the one caring for the baby, down to nursing him! I told you they were weird ass! In Martin's dream Elatia handed the baby over to us! Yea, cause that's what's gonna happen! Of course Martin is always fantasizing about stea...I mean "acquiring" babies. I guess we are both experiencing grandparent brain! Apparently with grandparent brain, when your grandchild asks you for a cookie right before dinner, you tell him no as you are handing him a cookie! Ya gotta love that!

The feeling I was left with, with my dreams, was that I got to spend time with my grand-baby. It was a really nice feeling. I think I had the dreams about nursing the baby is because my subconscious mind is trying to deal with the fact I am through menopause and those days are gone forever. I haven't had the time to even deal with that part of my life changing with the major grief I have been dealing with these past 3 years. Now that Elatia is pregnant, I have to face that those days are really behind me. I have to say, there is a bit of mourning that goes along with that. I think mainly because my motherhood was rudely interrupted with Andrew leaving so soon. He already knows he's got a smack coming when I see him again! BUT....

It's All Good in the Grammy-hood!