30 Weeks

Seventy days until Abe's due date. It's hard to believe we are 10 weeks away from the big day. All of our appointments, meetings and and classes are starting to stack up. Tomorrow is our consultation with a pediatrician, and in a couple of weeks we'll start our birthing classes. As you can see, Abe is growing at a good pace. His squirming and kicking can now be seen as well as felt. How bizarre it is to see Carrie's belly expand and contort as the youngster does his exercise routine inside.

Babies as obscure vegetables

We get a weekly email that tells us a little about the typical developmental process of the baby in Carrie's belly area. This week it says he's the size of a butternut squash. I've had them in soup, but it's not often that I see one in it's original state. So for educational purposes I have included a photo of a butternut squash. It's the thing on the right. Last week he was a Chinese cabbage. I had to look that up too.

28 Weeks Later

So I finally got the Mama to let me take a picture of her belly, which she promised to do weeks ago. Look at that! The boy is getting big. Of course she had to change outfits halfway through the "photo shoot" and yet she still wanted me to delete all of the pictures. We spent the last few days working on Abe's room... new ceiling fan, put together the rocker and bought a changing table/dresser on Craig's List.