Bumpdate: Week 19

Y'all, we've had a crazy week!

It started out pretty normal - I spent a few days working in NWA, heading back to OKC on Wednesday afternoon. I knew we were expecting storms back home, so (thankfully) I left a bit early to try and beat the weather. About halfway there, I got a call from The Boy warning me there was a tornado threat in our area. It looked like I'd beat it to the house, so I kept driving. We may have underestimated the speed of the storm.

I hit our exit right as the rain started, and the weather took a terrifying turn for the worse over the next ten minutes. Those last few miles to our house were a nightmare - sheets of rain, trees bent over the road, flooded streets. I pulled into the driveway with the tornado sirens and emergency alerts blaring and scrambled into the storm shelter with The Boy and fur babies.

We spent the rest of the night in and out of the shelter, comforting pets, praying the house didn't flood, and watching the hot mess break out on the news: multiple tornadoes, city-wide flooding, oh and the storm hit a local safari, freeing multiple lions, and tigers, and bears. Yep. That happened.

On top of all of that, Momma was flying into town smack in the middle of everything. However, the airport flooded and her flight got cancelled, stranding her in Houston (where all the hotels were booked and no flights to OKC were available for the next 24 hours). Thanks to some pleading they were able to get her on a flight to Dallas and she rented a car (and drove through the aftermath) to get to us. We finally got some rest after 3AM.

The excitement continued the next day. Our ultrasound appointment was at 2, and after over half and hour of waiting, we finally got to see the tech. It wasn't that easy, though, as Tiny is breech and was sitting "criss-cross applesauce" (according to the tech). So, she flipped the table upside down and had me hang there for a bit, hoping gravity would help things shift. Then, after a few minutes of poking and prodding at Tiny, she was finally able to determine the gender! We met with the doctor afterwards and got a reassuring "everything looks perfect" report.

We had a small gender reveal with the family later that night (more on that later), and are SO excited to finally be able to call this little one by name! We'll be sharing the gender in a few days - stay tuned on that. In the mean time, here's the Week 19 recap!

Apparently at week 19, baby is the size of an "heirloom tomato" or 6 in long. Don't know about you, but I'm not accustomed to coming across 6 in tomatoes on a regular basis. And, since our last resort (Whole Foods) didn't have any either, we substituted this week.

The rest of the weekend was spent enjoying time with my mom. We shopped, bought a stroller (a gorgeous, red Bugaboo that I may be more excited about than Tiny ever will be), baked cookies, got pedicures, did a lot of resting, and avoided the continuing onslaught of additional tornadoes and flooding.

Despite the storms, it was a great weekend. Having both Mom and my Bump in the same place on Mother's Day this year was really special. I'm so glad she got to be here - we miss her already!

Gender reveal post on Wednesday! Stay tuned!