Crenshaw Melon

Our Baby at 36 Weeks:

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. He's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during his nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of his first bowel movement.
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely he's in a head-down position. But if he isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating him from the outside of your belly.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

It's a long one.....

Eric's Earth Box - Week 14

So it's been 9 weeks since we Eric has done a video on his earth boxes.  The video is an update but also includes some encounters with earthly creatures that Gavin found "cute".  Enjoy!

More Stickers!!!

The first part of this video is Gavin just being crazy.  Hope you get a kick out of his scary voice when he's pinning daddy.

The last time Gavin had stickers, he went a little crazy and put them all over his feet.  This time around, he wanted to see if they could stick all over his body.  Enjoy!

Honeydew Melon

Our Baby at 35 Weeks:

Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew melon). Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

The Boys' Room

Last Thursday, we prepped the bedrooms to install carpet.  Friday, we got the carpet.  Saturday, we arranged furniture.  Sunday, we added a few new items to the boys' room.  Enjoy!

A Typical Tuesday Night

After work, I pick up Gavin and head home.  We eat dinner then we go for a walk around the neighborhood.  When we get back, we go in our backyard to pick oranges and juice them!  It's literally the best orange juice you may ever have....if you try some.  Then we play, clean up, take a bath and read a book or two or four!  I love the nights where there are no obligations. 

Cantaloupe

Our Baby at 34 Weeks:

Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. His fat layers — which will help regulate his body temperature once he's born — are filling him out, making him rounder. His skin is also smoother than ever. His central nervous system is maturing and his lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

Pineapple

Our Baby at 33 Weeks:

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

A Continuous Thought

I LOVE MY HUSBAND!!!