HALF WAY THERE!

Today I hit 20 weeks...half way through this pregnancy! It's true what they say, it does go faster the second time around. Probably because you're busy with miracle baby #1!

I'm feeling good, bigger this time around. My next doctor's appointment is this Tuesday; we'll try to get some video of the ultrasound. Bailey has decided that her baby brother's name should be Oatmeal-E (emphasize the E at the end). We're trying to see if we can work that in ;) Below is some information I found online as well as a few belly pics that I took this morning.

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, measurements are 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).

MELON COMA....

We had to break out the bib this past week...Boo decided to eat some watermelon, straight off the rind (This is a big deal for Bailey as she's typically a very "proper" eater. She doesn't like getting dirty! :).

This part of her lunch was a HUGE hit (as you can see by the two thumbs up :). After lunch, she has what we call "quiet time". It's called quiet time (or aka Mommy's mad dash to complete work time) because Boo dropped her nap about 9 months ago so instead, she'll play in her room for about 45 minutes. However, every once in while, she'll crash. This afternoon the melon must have sat hard because she didn't last long. She had some books out but, even poor Pooh couldn't keep her awake :)

NOT SMART ENOUGH....

There are times when I'm really not smart enough to be Bailey's mom. Many times that I am just "winging it" and praying that I don't screw her up. She's always been a smart and curious child but over the past couple of months, she's really increased her number of questions. At least 10 times a day I get questions like, "what do whales eat?", "do giants grow?", "where do squirrels sleep?", "can a horse jump over a car?"....cute little random stuff such as that. Half of the time, I can answer her...the other half of the time my answer is, "we'll have to Google that".

Every once in a while however, she asks me deep questions, you know...the ones that make you squirm a little. A few days ago, she asked me, "if you and daddy both go to heaven together, who will take care of me....YiaYia and Popo?". Crushed me. I,of course, had to tell her that daddy and I were not going to heaven together and that neither of us was going to heaven for a very, very long time. Still...she is growing and learning and Tom and I can only pray that we're smart enough to answer the questions. Praise God for His wisdom because I gotta tell you....not even Google has all the answers.

Pictures below are from my cell phone last week. We were in the mall and Boo was eating an ice cream cone. She stuck her face flat into the cone (which cracked us up), then she said (rather frustrated) that she could not bite the ice cream (it was already down past the cone). We explained that she need to bite the cone first (which is funny because she's had ice cream cones before, but I guess we've always taken bites of the cone before her). Once we explained how it worked, she laughed and continued on... finishing every last bite :)