Kicking, not yet screaming

Yesterday, we felt it for the first time. As we sat in the cold watching the Phillies lose to the Nationals, a hard little bump formed just below my rib cage. A foot? A hand? It lasted a minute and then went away.

I've been feeling them on the inside for a couple of days now. Today, I can feel the one on top (medically referred to as Baby B) making little jabs at the same spot. Very active kid. Mike thinks it's a boy. The one on the bottom is harder to feel through my belly. But, at band practice the other night, it (she?) was moving around quite a bit, dancing or perhaps really annoyed.

Very exciting. You go through all this crap that makes pregnancy seem like just a long series of calamities. Then, you start to feel that they are alive and it makes all the bloating and heartburn not so bad. I am starting to feel that the worst of babydom is probably not so bad either.