We're Baaaa-aaaack!

After a delightfully long hiatus, we've returned to DC. Actually, Jacob returned last Wednesday, but I just got back Monday night. I've got lots of posts to catch up on, but first, while we were vacationing away, Baby Andrew was hard at work developing. 2 milestones were met:

25 Weeks!
Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. His weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but he's beginning to exchange his long, lean look for some baby fat. As he does, his wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and he'll start to look more and more like a newborn. He's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture.


26 Weeks!
The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. He's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he's born and takes that first gulp of air. And he's continuing to put on baby fat. He now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel.


Baby fat! Yay! Get nice and pudgy, little one! If I were writing these updates, I'd include that he's kicking a LOT harder than before. And a LOT more often. I have such a good little boy, though...not once has he kept me up at night, but during the day, it's like he thinks he's in one of those moon walk bounce houses. It's pretty funny to see my shirt jump around at work! And I was so glad that when I got home to Jacob Monday night, Baby Andrew started kicking right away, so his daddy could see how strong he's become. Jacob's decided Andrew's destined to be a Texas A&M linebacker!

More posts later...I must scurry off to work now.