The Night That Baby Kicked Dad

Good morning, all :)

Yesterday while I was observing a class during school, I felt the baby kicking, and I thought to myself, "Wow, this baby is going to town in there! I wonder if I could feel it from the outside?" I put my hand on my belly, and sure enough, little pulses could be felt from the outside each time the baby kicked!

Right before Ian got home, the baby was kicking like crazy, but then as soon as Ian tried to feel, the baby stopped! Well, I had heard from someone else, and done a little of my own research, that when I eat something, the baby gets all pumped up on the sugars in the food and will be active then - so, I decided to pop a mini-Twix bar and sure enough! Baby started kicking again!!

Ian was on the phone with his Dad, so I called him over and just had him sit on the couch with his hand on my ever-growing belly - the baby kept kicking and I kept asking Ian if he had felt it, but he just kept shaking his head. Finally, the baby gave me a few good whacks, and Ian asked, "Is that it?" I just nodded and smiled! It was pretty exciting! Ian told his Dad he was feeling the baby kick as they spoke and was able to feel a few more good kicks before the baby settled down off of his 'Twix' high :)

So awesome! What a fun thing that we can both have a sense of our baby now! Wow....

On a different note, I am loving that this is the last school day in February - bring on the nicer weather! And as I wrote on John's Facebook page... his Degree recital is now in the 10 day forecast on weather.com :) So exciting!

Have a great Friday, everyone!
Love you!