23 Weeks!!!

Well...i have reached the beginning of my sixth month...can you believe it?!? The belly seems to be getting bigger every day, hopefully that's just a feeling. lol.
He is soooooo active. Many people, by now, have gotten to actually feel him kick around. You can even see him moving...it looks like belly spasms. And get this...the other night i was laying on my side with my hand under my belly, and i actually felt his little heel a few times when he kicked. It was SOOO bizarre. I couldn't stop smiling. Weird!
Sometimes it hits me more than others that there's a real baby inside of this belly (and by belly i mean Belly) =) I love those times.
Gio is getting more excited as well, now that he can actually feel him move around. He still gets a little weirded out by touching my belly. When i make him talk to it he calls him "little fat guy" ...cracks me up.
We have decided on a name: Giovanni Josiah Del Carpio. (we will call him Josiah though...it's a silent "Giovanni")
I was reading about the 8 year old king Josiah in 2 Kings and was so excited...this is our prayer for our son... (after his 30 year reign) chapter 23 verse 25 "Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise like him."

I can't wait to meet him...this will be a long 4 months to go.

Here's what BabyCenter says about this week:

How your baby's growing:

Turn on the radio and sway to the music. With his sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance. And now that he's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango), you may be able to see him squirm underneath your clothes. Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that your baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing him for entry into the outside world. Loud noises that become familiar now — such as your dog barking or the roar of the vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze him when he hears them outside the womb.