Aliens Among Us

{stork watch: week 25}

We've breached the threshold. Lying down the other night in MiniMac's favorite chair and in her favorite position, I looked down at my belly and actually saw her move. Jon and I were so captivated by the strange alien poking, we probably sat there for a good 30 minutes just staring. It's kind of like a little fishy disturbing the "water." She's still being rather sneaky, though. And only with certain people. She'll let the grandmothers feel her, but my dad has yet to catch her in action. She seems to be playing hide-and-seek with Aunt Heidi (and she's really good at the hiding). I'll feel her rolling around one minute, and the second they reach out a hand she converts to stealth mode. Unfortunately, shoving and verbal threats seem to have no effect at this point.

Goooooooooal!

I've been trying to figure out for approximately a week now whether the little kicks and jabs I feel from the inside are discernible from the flipside. The problem is, they've been so few and far between that when I notice her moving and Jon sneaks a feel, she stops. But last night we were lying on the couch and I was determined to catch her in the act. I told Jon to just keep his hand there for a while and we settled in to watch the Real World/Road Rules Challenge.

Unfortunately, Jon is kind of ADD and was playing with Hanna simultaneously. So every time I'd be like 'did you feel that?' Jon wasn't able to tell if it was her or just the tugging motion from Hannabelle wrestling with the rope in his other hand (you'd think he could stop playing with the dog for 30 minutes to try and feel his child I mean come on..  jk  ;)  But she did finally make her presence known with a nice strong kick (or punch? or flip?) during a particularly rowdy party scene with some jammin background music. 

Either she dances on cue or she was headbanging. 
Whatever it was, I'm proud.