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DDOL: The things he will eat.

Filed under: Liam — Heidi at 1:54 pm on Thursday, February 23, 2006

L saw me eating my salad today and wanted a bite.

So, I gave him a piece.  He licked it.  He looked at it. He shoved it in his mouth, chewed it for a second, and swallowed it.  Then he looked up and said, “mmmoohhh.”

It’s about freakin’ time.  I ate enough salad while I was pregnant with that kid.  He OUGHT to like it.

Next up, mutter paneer.

WDO?: (AKA The AxLita Weekly Round-up): Fourteen Weeks.

Filed under: Pregnancy — Heidi at 5:02 pm on Wednesday, February 22, 2006

General:

  • My prediction: Boy
  • I feel movement almost every day.

About AxLita: (Courtesy of Fertility Friend Pregnancy.)

  • Your baby measures about 3.2 to 3.5 inches (7.6 to 8.9cm) from crown to rump and weighs about 0.9 ounces (25g). Your baby is now nourished by the placenta.
  • His face is developing and his cheeks and the bridge of his nose are appearing. His ears are moving from the sides of his neck to higher on his head and his eyes are moving closer together. Your baby’s external genitals are now distinct and may be recognized on an ultrasound. Your baby will move away from stimuli near your tummy, such as noise and light.
  • Your baby’s eyebrows have formed and a small amount of hair, called lanugo, has appeared all over his body. Lanugo, which will be shed before birth and replaced with the hairs with which your baby will be born, is thought to have a protective function.
  • Insulin is present in your baby’s pancreas. Some bones may be well outlined. Your baby’s thyroid gland, already developed by this week, begins to make hormones.
  • Baby boys begin to develop the prostate gland at this time and the ovaries of baby girls descend from the abdomen into the pelvis.

What AxLita is doing to my body: (Word-for-word courtesy of Fertility Friend Pregnancy.)

  • Most of the discomforts of early pregnancy, such as nausea and fatigue are behind you for now and you are probably feeling better. The pregnancy is probably feeling like a reality.
  • Any dark pigment on your skin (such as moles and freckles) may become even darker, and you might develop a facial pigmentation known as chloasma which will fade after the birth.

Pregnancy Symptoms: Pretty much the same as twelve weeks and last week, but there are a few new/reocurring ones.

  • Cravings - McDonald’s Filet-o-fish. Haven’t given in to it, but for some reason it sounds SO good.
  • Night Sweats - Back for round two, I guess. Still very annoying.
  • Sciatica - Happened around this time with Liam as well.

Most Interesting Emotional Breakdown(s) This Week:

  • We were out to lunch with Aaron’s mom and she was trying to help with L because she thought his food might be hot. She reached to help him and I glared at her and said, “I think I can handle it.” Yeah, I was a little harsh. The filter between my brain and my mouth is a lot shorter than it is when I’m not pregnant. Shit just comes out! I apologized later.

DDOL: Wordage

Filed under: BackBlogging, Liam — Heidi at 1:44 pm on Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Here’s the latest.

  • Bathroom = bad-woooooom
  • Dump Truck = da-doooooo
  • Tractor = da-dooooooo
  • Elmo = oh-bow
  • Rabbit = op-op-op-op-op
  • Frog = op-op-op-op-op
  • Hello = ah-lowwww
  • Harbor = ahh-bow

DDOL: For Aaron

Filed under: Aaron, Family, Liam — Heidi at 2:21 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Because he’s whining for updates:

Comment by AJ

21 February 2006 @ 10:47 am

How else will I find out what new words my son is saying? Yeah, like the guy in the fancy office is going to use a phone like a sucker. Come on!

Ok then, you whiny bastard!

Since we’ve been at Grammy and Grandpa’s house with Emalee and Ethan, L has mastered a few very important words: mine and no.

He had a rudimentary understanding of these words on Saturday, but his use has increased at least three-fold since Sunday - within the first three hours of our arrival. Naturally, one would wonder what brought on the language explosion.

Hmmmm. Heather and I managed, yet again, not to get in a fight during the visit. Grammy and Grandpa were more than civil to one another. And Ethan doesn’t talk. It would seem then, that a certain three-year old is the only other possibility.

That said, through a series of very structured experiments, we have determined that it is very difficult to be three-and-a-half with a cousin who is 20 months and wants to have everything you have - and doesn’t. know. how. to. share.

It’s been a rough few days for miss Em. On the upside though, I am fairly certain that she would make an excellent educator, should she choose that route later in life, of course.

Visiting my family

Filed under: Blah Blah Blah — Heidi at 1:04 pm on Monday, February 20, 2006

posting will be sporadic.

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