This week in Baby-ville
Your baby is about eight and a half inches long (crown to rump) and weighs one and a half pounds, gaining steadily at a rate of six ounces per week. Much of that weight comes from accumulating baby fat, as well as from growing organs, bones, and muscle. Those little ears of hers are getting sharper and can hear very loud sounds, from a yapping dog to a jackhammer. Also by now, that fabulous face is almost fully formed, complete with eyelashes, eyebrows, and hair. Is your baby a brunette, a blonde, or a redhead? Actually, right now her locks are white since there's no pigment yet.
Also, last time I promised a sonogram picture of Miss Baby Lanier so here she is! This is a profile picture of her face so you can see her head on the right side with her little nose and mouth and forehead and then her chest is over to the left and you can actually see her spine on the bottom. Pretty darn cool if you ask me!
This week in Mama-ville
We haven't kept up as well as we were with pictures of me (partly due to much time by me spent in Buffalo, NY). Here's a very recent couple of pictures of me though. And for those who wonder if I'm showing yet, well, I think the pictures speak for themselves. Do I hear a resounding "yes"?
23 weeks 3 days (August 2)
As for the house preparations, they are coming along. The baby's room is getting close to being cleared out and the office/spare room is becoming more like what it will be. Still a long ways to go but progress is being made. In fact, in the extensive cleanup, Mark found some MRE's from his Navy days (yes it's been a while) and decided to "explore" one of them to see if they were still good after 20 years…yikes!! His take on it… "it tastes old". I'm just going to trust him on that one! As for the baby room, I still haven't totally figured out how I want the room to look, although I've been gathering ideas.
In addition to figuring out what we want the room to look like, we've been researching all the things you need for a new baby: car seats, strollers – those are the biggies since we have to have those to come home from the hospital – but there are still plenty more other things like playpens and highchairs and swings and other stuff. And oh the options you have! Almost overwhelming! We went window shopping yesterday and in addition to a lot of looking, we had fun test driving strollers. In fact I think Mark may have enjoyed it more than me, figuring out how they all worked and what all "features" there were for each.
Well that's where we are this week. More to come!
Angela.
