15w1d

**Baby Update - Mommy is 15 weeks and 1 day pregnant. Your baby's crown-to-rump length is approximately 4 inches and she now weighs approximately 1.75 ounces. Your baby is close to the size of a softball and you can easily tell that you are pregnant now! Your baby is growing at an amazing rate and looking more like a human every day. Because your baby's skin is so thin, you are able to see blood vessels through the skin. Lanugo hair covers your baby's body, but it will be gone when your baby is born. The hair on the eyebrows and head continues to grow. Some babies are born with little or no hair and others have a head full of hair! If you have an ultrasound at this point, you might be able to see your baby sucking its thumb. Even though the eyes continue to move to the front of the face, they are still widely separated. Your baby's ears look like normal ears and continue to develop externally. The bones that have already formed continue to get harder and retain calcium. The baby is very mobile and flexible at this point. She can bend her arms at the elbows and wrists and she can also make a fist with her hands. **

Happy 15 weeks to me! Lately time really seems to be flying by. A new baby seems right around the corner. I'm really wanting to get all the baby stuff out of the attic and start taking inventory for what I need to get. I have a feeling I'm going to need more than I did for Jacob because he was so hard on things and I ended up throwing stuff away. I know he broke the baby swing and most if not all of the baby bottles weren't holding a seal anymore. We have been looking at yard sales and consigment shops for baby gear. I got a lovely diaper changing table complete with the changing pad and covers yesturday for only $15! Of course, we didn't use a diaper changing table with the other two but we also didn't have a 5 year old and a soon to be 3 year old running around the house. . . along with dogs, cats, birds, etc. Plus this time I have a lot of other stuff I have to buy to accommadate my growning family. Like I'll need a new kitchen table and chairs because it only seats 5, I have to buy Jacob a big boy bed because I'll need him off the crib mattress before the baby arrives, I have to get a new carseat/stroller combo because even though there is nothing wrong with the one we have - the carseat is expired. Plus, most of the things I was able to pass down to Jacob because Chloe had doubles (like toy boxes / dresser / bookshelf) we don't have triples of, so that means we'll have to get a new dresser for the baby. So it's nice that we are starting early. . .

My doctor's appointment was yesturday and I gained an entire pound! Woot! Woot! The appointment was so fast and easy it was almost boring. Basically all that happened was I got to leave a urine sample, seen the doctor - she said everything looked good, heard the baby's heartbeat, I had no questions and we left. However, next time it will be exciting! We get to have our gender ultrasound, to find out if we are adding pink or blue! Chloe will be in school and I believe Susan is going to watch Jacob - otherwise he will be the only child with us. But unlike all the other times I've gotten an ultrasound - this one they will record for me!! All I have to do is bring a recordable DVD!! That will be nice to show Chloe when she gets home from school! Although she will be devastated if it's a boy. . . lol!

Other things that we did yesturday, since I was feeling so good, were. . . We shopped for Chloe's school supplies! I believe I have two or three more things to buy her and she is 100% ready to start Kindergarten next month! Yay! I am nervous about sending her on the school bus, but excited that she gets to go back to school. It will be good for her and Jacob to be back on the school routine. . . plus it will give me the time I need to get things ready for a baby around here and finish potty training Jacob. He's doing great, and has no accidents if we are out and about or at Grandma's house. But when we are home he dosen't always tell me when he needs to go! But I put no fault on him, I think it's mommy and daddy who have to try harder to remember to ask. . . it will be nice to have to only buy diapers for one child. . . not two.

Well we are going to be getting some storms this afternoon, so I need to get out and get the yard stuff done before it rains cats and dogs. Hopefully, I'll be able to post a few more pictures tonight.