Tutti Fruity

I'm 22 weeks along today, and for those of you who have been pregnant (or for those of you who see my Facebook posts), this means you get assigned a fruit! What am I today, you ask? A papaya! It's funny though - at week 20 I was a cantaloupe, and then last week (21 weeks) they claimed I was a banana. Now, wouldn't you think that a cantaloupe is much bigger than a banana? Then today, I find out I'm a papaya, and feel like my Baby OB might be shrinking! I then decide, well, it must have been quite a small cantaloupe.

Then lo and behold, my friend Anna sends me a photo via iphone:

Hilarious! She actually went and compared them at the grocery store :) Bottom line is that the papaya is WAY bigger than a cantaloupe and a banana! Actually ... I am more than frightened at the size of that thing. How does that fit into my belly!? Or oh my goodness ... worse ... how does that come out!? TMI. That's why I am not reading that chapter until November.

Which leads me to this - according to thebump.com I actually stay a papaya for 3 weeks. Which means, by the end of these three full weeks the baby will be this size. Which caused me to finally do this:

Yep, bye bye pre-maternity clothes that don't fit me anymore. How sad to put my jeans away for the next 4+ months ... probably more since it will take me quite some time to fit back into them. Although ... maybe my real question is why do I have so many pairs of pants :/

Stay tuned this weekend - I'm hoping to post a pic of the painted nursery!