No, really.
Saturday’s are the day I get my email updates telling me what’s new in my belly. This isn’t one of the updates I get in my email, but it had a lot of info, so it’s the one I’m sharing:
You are 16 weeks pregnant. (fetal age 14 weeks)
- The fetus measures nearly 5 inches (12cm) from head to buttocks.
- The fetus weighs about 3.5 ounces (100 grams).
- The fetus is covered with a protective soft down to regulate its temperature.
- Fat begins to form underneath skin.
- Baby hears external voices, sleeps and dreams.
Your baby has learned to breathe. This is apparent from the regular movements of his chest, inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid. These actions help the lungs to develop and grow. More developed facial muscles may lead to various expressions, such as squinting and frowning. Your baby nows weighs more than their afterbirth. The baby can grasp with his hands, kick, or even somersault.
You are showing more now and have an obvious swelling in your lower abdomen. The rest of your body is still changing. A total of 5 to 10 pound (2.25 to 4.5 kg) weight gain by this point in your pregnancy is normal.
The crown to rump length of your baby is 4.4 to 4.8 inches (11 to 12 cm). Fetal weight has doubled in 2 weeks and is about 3.5 ounces (100g).
Not that, you perv.
We ended up going to McDonald’s tonight for dinner. I started singing to Chewy just before we left about how his milkshake brings all the boys to the yard… and suddenly I needed a milkshake. So I got one. It was just supposed to be a small, but Jeff’s head apparently thinks “small” and says “medium”. Who am I to complain?
When we pulled up to the window to pick up the lady told us she made a mistake. She accidentally made TWO medium chocolate shakes. The other was just going to be thrown out, did we want it? Ummm heck yes! So we scored a free shake. Which rocks my socks off.
Don’t worry, I didn’t drink both shakes. I let Jeff have the free one.
As far as you know.
And check it out, that video from yesterday – embedded!
We bought a digital camcorder. It’s kind of a baby purchase, and kind of an I Want One purchase. Here is my first video – a very dark video (apparently the lighting in our living room isn’t going to work out wonderfully, but we can work around that) of Chewy chasing after a red laser pointer dot. It mostly looks like just a red dot wiggling around, but if you look REAAAAL close you might see some white paws going after it.
Click here for the video, WordPress doesn’t want to embed it.
Yes I know that’s a lame video, but come on. I just wanted to test the thing out! This is our new camcorder thingy: Insignia Digital Camcorder. It’s pretty much as basic as you can get. But we don’t need anything fancy, and it was on sale.
Now I just wish I could have taken a video of me trying to help Jeff put eyedrops in his eyes a few minutes ago… that would have had you rolling around on the floor. Apparently Jeff does not like things near his eyes.
I suddenly have a headache, which is not cool. But I guess at least it wasn’t here all day? That must be the bright side. When I get home tonight I will hopefully clean out the humidifier so we can start that bad boy running. But knowing me… it won’t happen tonight. Last night it was freaking cold! I ended up going to bed to watch tv just because it’s warmer in bed. And of course that meant I fell asleep and missed most of my shows. From about half way through NCIS to halfway through The Good Wife. Which means I got two hours extra sleep in there… there’s that bright side again. Honestly though it never works that way. Once I woke up at 10:30 I watched the end of my show, then read my book for about an hour and a half until I was sleepy enough to fall back asleep. So basically it evened itself out. Take that, bright side!
…and placed that order last night. So my parents’ “big” Christmas gift should be on it’s way any day now. I wanted to take advantage of a special deal they had going too, where you spend $100 and you get $10 off. And of course Overstock.com has $1 shipping (which is so completely awesome that there are no words). So we chose a new desk chair and ordered that as well. What? We need one! Hopefully it will be awesome. Here’s the chair we went with: Boss High Back Leather Executive Chair.
I was thinking we could consider it a Christmas gift to eachother, wrap it up and wait til Christmas to put it together. But Jeff thinks we should just put it to use as soon as it arrives. Who am I to argue? 
Christmas. I have a couple things saved in my cart on overstock.com right now. May bite the bullet and just place the order tonight. Maybe.
Allergies. Mine have been bothering me for about a month now. They are getting better… and yet not, all at the same time.
Thanksgiving. Apparently my parents are taking us OUT for turkey dinner this year. Weird! But… kinda neat. It’s something different.
Food. I am very hungry. It’s Jeff’s fault, he called and asked if I’d pick dinner up tonight if he ordered it – so I’ve been thinking of calzones ever since. Only a few more minutes though.
Crocheting. I’m currently (well, not right this very minute) working on a blanket for my nephew for Christmas. It’s actually been coming along pretty fast, yet it still feels like it will never be done.
Food. We need a couple things but I don’t want to stop at the grocery store. It’s okay if food is on my list twice, right?
Video Games. Jeff got a new one today. He pre-ordered it awhile ago and it arrived today, and he is already all involved. He actually took this weekend off work… to play the game. How nice.
Sleep. It’s my favorite part of the day.
… to those of you that don’t know me in real life – and most of you do! We’re expecting our first baby in April. (April 24th)
So here are some answers to the most popular questions:
- No, we don’t know what we’re having yet. We should probably find out in December.
- Yes, we do plan to find out. But … sometimes babies don’t like to show the goods. And also, if you annoy us enough about it, we might just decide not to tell YOU.
- No, it wasn’t a surprise. This was very planned. (And by the way, don’t ask a pregnant woman this. Do you realize what you’re even ASKING?)
- Yes, of course we are excited. And nervous. And everything else you can imagine.
We’ve seen the baby twice so far, at 8 weeks:
And again at 12 weeks:
I’m not sure when we’ll get to see him/her again, but I imagine it won’t be until sometime in December.
So that’s what’s new in our lives! Besides that life is continuing along pretty boringly. No news is good news, I think!
We bought a dustbuster type thing the other day. It’s probably the smartest thing I ever decided we needed. Maybe we will actually do some more dog hair and cobweb removal now that we can just flip a switch and aim the little sucker upper? So far my theory is proving true, but then it’s only been two days.
We got this one: Shark SV90Z 16.8v Cordless Hand Vac It’s the Shark Pet Pro! It comes with fancy attachments that I haven’t tried out yet.
I’ve learned something about Chewy since we bought this dustbuster. And that’s that he really doesn’t like it. No, I mean REALLY. I figured he wouldn’t care for it, but I didn’t realize it would become his arch nemesis. I know he always runs away from the vacuum cleaner; makes sense. That thing is effing loud! The dustbuster is a bit quieter, and Chewy doesn’t run away. Instead he stays put and hisses violently at it. (Jeff thinks that he runs away from the vacuum because it’s bigger, but he hisses at this since it’s smaller – and he thinks he can take it.) Which he hasn’t done at anything since his first days in our house, up until he and Dale finally called a truce:
Evidence of said early-hissage
That makes me sad because I want to play with my new toy! And I feel bad doing it if it freaks him out that much. I shut myself in the bathroom this morning with it and used it to suck up some dog hair around (and between, and behind) the washer and dryer (AWE.SOME.) and that kind of worked, but he was stuck right up against the door when I opened it back up, so I’m not really sure it didn’t still freak him out… but I guess at least I didn’t see it so I can pretend it didn’t happen.
Poor kitty.
I have been “dying” of allergies this week. Silly October! Yesterday I finally made it to the store and picked up some Benadryl – then I proceeded to sleep through the entire night (almost, I woke up at 5:30 but went right back to sleep again) and woke up without the dry itchy eyes! It was like a miracle. It’s been a couple hours since then and the dry itchy eyes have come back, but dude. I can look forward to tonight, when I will pop another pill, and potentially many more throughout the weekend.
Think lots of good thoughts for my friend Kayleen today, will you? She went in at 6:30 this morning (which would be 7:30 my time – or two hours ago) to have her labor induced, so sometime in the near future they will have their little baby girl! You can do it Kayleen! Wooo!
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