Mango Baby

I've been a little lax on the babycenter.com updates the last few weeks. Here is the one for this week:

"Turn on the radio and sway to the music. With her sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance. And now that she'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 her squirm underneath your clothes. Blood vessels in her lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that your baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing her 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 her when she hears them outside the womb."

And here is the picture accompanying this weeks update:

The nursery was painted this week. After our house guest leave next weekend, we get to set everything up. I cannot wait!! Of course I'll be posting tons of photos of Ellie Kate's new room.

Thanks A Lot Lady Gaga Fans

Okay people, this is what happens when you start supporting freaks like Lady Gaga:

WTF!?! Are you proud of yourselves? You shouldn't be!!

NOLA Bound

I'm sooo excited that we are leaving this afternoon to drive down to New Orleans! We're going down to see my friend Shane and to go to French Quarter Festival. Of course, I would be a whole hell of a lot more excited if I could drink this weekend. Ugggg.....an entire summer without a wine, cocktail, or beer. Maybe I'll insist that Greg abstain also in an act of solidarity. No, even I'm not that big of a bitch.

Halfway Through It

Last Saturday I reached 20 weeks. That is the halfway point in my pregnancy....Yippy!!!

Here was my babycenter.com update from last Saturday:

"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, measurementsare 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)."

So the meconium in the womb thing is pretty nasty, but at least the picture this week isn't nearly as creepy. Here is the 20 week photo:Over the weekend we ordered the crib, changing table, and rocker/glider and ottoman, for the nursery. I sure hope that the doctor and all my predictions were right, and we don't find any extra body parts at delivery that would make all this pink stuff inappropriate. Well, I have always said that I would either have a daughter or a gay son :-).