half way there...

Now I am at approximately 21 weeks, give or take a few days. Some updates wth baby:

How your baby's growing:Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She'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 her torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of her head to her bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, she's measured from head to toe.) She's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in her bowels, and you'll see it in her first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery). (eww)

some updates about me: I can't sleep and I am becoming as big as a whale. maybe one of these days I will post a picture of my enormous self. Also, it is getting quite hot in Texas, which makes me a little cranky. Thankfully for Jason, we have a swimming pool. I think that I am just going to move into the backyard. :)

it's a girl!!

At 19 weeks we went back to the doctor and had another sonogram done- this was to confirm the sex of the baby- and check everything else as well. As you can tell from the title, it is a girl. yay!!! I am so excited to meet her yet terrified of everything that I have to do and learn from now till then. Baby is developing just fine, weighs about 1/2 a pound and is approximately 6 inches tall. The first picture is my favorite- you can really see her nose! :)

In this picture she is starting to move her arms, which made the picture slightly blurry.

She is sucking on her thumb, but I think it looks like she is starting to smoke a cigarette. Can you see the smoke coming out??

And now.... she has almost finished her cigarette! So much smoke. I think that this is a sign that I am going to have a rebellious daughter, I H.A.T.E. cigarette smoke!! :)

This is the back of her face, she was tired of us bothering her.

The sonographer decided she needed to move to the other side so she could check the other side of her body, after much effort my stubborn baby moved, but she was unhappy- she is hiding her face from us!!

14 week sonogram pictures!

This is a view of baby's legs.

Here you can see baby's head and upper body

all of baby laying down.

Better view of baby- legs are up!!

Baby scratching her face!

Apparently I was not meant to be a blogger, because I don't really enjoy all that much and I am not very good at keeping up with it. But we can just blame it on my may-mester class that has taken over my life! Thankfully only 4 more days!

But at 14 weeks baby is doing great and baby's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, urinate, and possibly suck his/her thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, her facial muscles are getting a workout as her tiny features form one expression after another. her kidneys are producing urine, which she releases into the amniotic fluid around him (which I find disgusting by the way) — a process that will keep up until birth. She can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch her sucking her thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and she weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His/her body's growing faster than her head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, her arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of her body. (Her legs still have some lengthening to do.) She's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over her body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and her spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel her tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.