Message From Santa

Large Mango

Our Baby at 23 Weeks:

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.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

Videos to Come

Family Fun Day

Here is what we did yesterday!  Enjoy!

Eric's Earth Box - Week 1

My husband has been obsessed with having his own garden for vegetables, herbs and such.  He looked on youtube and learned how to create an "Earth Box".  Here's the start of his progress....

Spaghetti Squash

Our Baby at 22 Weeks:

At 11 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound, your baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn. His lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and he's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath his gums. His eyes have formed, but his irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment. If you could see inside your womb, you'd be able to spot the fine hair (lanugo) that covers his body and the deep wrinkles on his skin, which he'll sport until he adds a padding of fat to fill them in. Inside his belly, his pancreas — essential for the production of some important hormones — is developing steadily

(courtesty of www.babycenter.com)

Carrot

Our Baby at 21 Weeks:

Your baby now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. You may soon feel like he's practicing martial arts as his initial fluttering movements turn into full-fledged kicks and nudges. You may also discover a pattern to his activity as you get to know him better. In other developments, your baby's eyebrows and lids are present now.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

Banana

Our Baby at 20 Weeks:

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)
He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

Our Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving began at the buttcrack of dawn!  We woke up around 5:30 a.m. (something I haven't done since Gavin was just an infant!), we picked up my sister-in-law and my nephew, and we headed to the Turkey Trot!  I think we all figured that since it wasn't that cold last year and it wasn't cold that whole week, we should probably skip the jackets.  Well, we were freezing!  Gavin was a trooper in his stroller while the rest of us walked over 3 miles.  We definitely deserved a big Thanksgiving feast!

And that's exactly what we got.  With the initial intention of 15 responses the week before, we ended up with 20 people in our house!  We had two turkeys, a bunch of food and so many reasons to give thanks.  After dinner, we showed our Gender Prediction Survey video which everyone loved.

Here are some pictures of our fine day!