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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tippy grows and grows

Here is the most recent snapshot of Tippy. She is now over 20 lbs and about 2 ft in length, not including her long tail. She spends most of her time playing with Chief now but still comes in for snuggles and snacks from the kids. She is a good dog, we are glad we chose to keep her.

Sammie is 2!!!







We celebrated her birthday early while daddy was in town, but we still had to do a little something for her actual birthday. We made some cupcakes for her and Papa. ( who she shares her day with.) She got one last present from us, as well as one she received in the mail from Uncle Michael and Aunt Joy. We are so thankful to have had these last 2 years with her , she is such a blessing and a joy!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

14 weeks pregnant

Here's some info I found on baby this week...
Your BabyThink of it this way: You're a third of the way through and baby's a third of the way cooked. Now that the "big stuff" (like skeletal and organ development) is taken care of, your baby starts a period of rapid brain growth, fat buildup and detail work. Highlights this week include:Your baby now has fingerprints! Book 'em, Danno! Believe it or not, he actually created them himself while swimming around in the amniotic fluid. As he moved his hands, the skin on the tips of his fingers formed unique ridges and folds. That's why no one on earth has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins! Cool, right? Baby's arms are now in proportion to his tiny body, but his legs are still on the short size in comparison.Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom. Your baby continues to gain new and impressive skills such as practicing and controlling voluntary muscle movements (this will help him fling food across the room later in life). Your tiny dancer's movements are no longer the jerky, uncontrollable twitches of yore—he now moves with graceful control. Your baby is now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago! Luckily, you haven't done the same.