20 Weeks -- Halfway!

20 weeks! Halfway through, and here are some interesting things that have happened since finding out I was pregnant:

1. People I don't know want to touch my stomach, which is starting to pooch out now.

2. I think baby brain is a real affliction of pregnant women. Today, for instance, I went to the grocery store to get salad ingredients and birthday cards, both of which I forgot. I did remember to get the new US Weekly, though, which is really important.

3. Another baby brain incident: when I first found out I was pregnant, I was returning to work after a doctor's appointment and talking to Brooke as I parked my car. Five hours later, as I'm walking through the parking lot toward my car to go home, I'm digging for my keys in my purse. Panic sets in as I can't find them. Where did I put them?! Then, I notice that it sounds like my car is running. Yep. There they are -- in the ignition, with the doors unlocked. Good thing I'd filled up with gas that day.

4. A Jehovah's Witness made me feel sure that my pregnancy would be OK and that I'd have a boy. He was 80, and it was 30 degrees outside so I talked to him when he came to my door. I couldn't turn the poor old man away. He told me he wanted to read about the Mother Mary, and it piqued my interest since I'd just found out I was pregnant. Then, he chose a scripture from the book of Luke (the name we'd chosen for a boy) and read, "And He said unto her, 'You shall be with child.'" So, I, of course, took it as a sign.

5. I took a pregnancy test after asking Brooke over and over if she'd just put on perfume. She hadn't but had used facewash an hour earlier. She immediately said, "You're pregnant." The nose knows....