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Your Baby This Week

It's official--you and your baby are starting your third trimester and are well on your way to delivery day!

As growth continues, your baby weighs in at over 2 pounds (1 kg). And because his body is more developed, measurement no longer goes from rump to crown, but from head to toe--about 15 inches (38cm)! Your baby can suck his thumb now, which is actually a good thing! It helps calm him, while also helping to strengthen jaw muscles and encourage the suckling reflex. Your baby can even cry now, but you won't be able to hear him.

Your baby's eyelids are starting to open, and he can actually open and close his eyes while in the womb.

I think Anabel is getting some more teeth and they are causing her problems. She has had major problems with a burnt bottom. I've been keeping her good and coated with cream. Her head has been hot and she naws on her fingers, shoving them far to each side. I feel really bad for her. She has been whining and fussing a ton!

She's been doing a new face. I figured out today that she probably does it cause i make the same face to her all the time (me the girl of many goofy looks) She drops her mouth open wide, like 'woah!'. It's really cute to see her do it... when i do it i probably look stupid, but it's quite cute on her.

She also has been sticking her tongue out today and even tried to lick me, which is a first, LOL

Tomorrow is 'Books and Babies' at 11am. Hopefully i remember this time and i get Anabel there. She loves books and me reading to her :)

• Peaches
• Cherries
• Mango
• Oranges
• Kiwi
• Apples
• Grapes
• Watermelon
• Cantaloupe
• Strawberries
• Bananas
• Pretty much everything

Veggies:

• Peas
• Corn
• Sweet potatoes
• Broccoli
• Green beans
• Spinach
• Califlower
• Olives
• Most everything really

Things I found out she doesn't like:

• Carrots
• White potatoes

What she drinks:

• Goats milk mixed with any baby cereal
• Green Goddess Organic Smoothies
• 'Naked' Organic Smoothies (any flavor)
• Apple w/ Carrot juice
• Apple sauce mixed with water (we put it in her bottles)

• Thunderstorms
• Pretty Sun Dresses
• Rosy Cheeks
• Hats
• Having the Windows Down
• Parks
• Flowers

"The little birds fly over
And oh, how sweet they sing!
To tell the happy children
That once again 'tis spring."

Your Baby This Week
Your baby is getting chubby. She weighs about 32 ounces (1 kg) and measures more than 9 inches (23 cm) in length. You're continuing to grow, too, which is a sign that you're both healthy!
Complaints: Hurting Hips
Yeah to name just one! I don't sleep on the bed anymore because of my loose joints. Hips hurt the worst but my sholders get pretty bad at night too if i sleep on the bed. Bob insists on sleeping on the floor next to me at night. He's so sweet :D I wonder how long he will do that though lol
I still have the continous problem of trying to drink enough water through out the day. I never feel like i get enough even though i try my hardest. It seems like i would have it down by now seeing how much i seems to worry about, gosh!

Anabel is such a complete angle that i wonder how my luck will be this time. I can't surely have to wonderfully mannered babies can i? Wouldn't that be to good to be true? So i'm trying to expect this baby to be harder even though most say that the second tends to be more mild mannered. This baby sure is more mild mannered in the womb, but we will see what that means once it's out here i guess.

Anabel is walking so much more now. She wobbles everywhere, it's so cute! I hope to get a video up soon. She didn't start doing it a whole bunch until we moved into our new apartment and she started walking from box to box, and now she goes all over. She can side step and turn. She hasn't learned to stand up without holding onto something yet, but that will come soon I'm sure.

You know how her big thing was shaking her head 'no' to everything? Well now she can also nod her head 'yes' and it's cute cause she usually does it with her mouth open. Sometimes she gets her neck confused and it's a 'yes-no' which is funny too.

She also is big into handing you things. She will go to her toy box and if you are close, she will take out one toy at a time and hand you each one. Or she will just get in a mood and go about the room picking up stuff to hand to you. If you aren't close enough she will crawl or walk to you to hand it to you. It's been really helpful because now if she picks something odd-an-end off the floor, she use to shove it in her mouth as fast as she can, now usually if I ask her 'what do you have?' she will hold it out for me to take…. It's not 100% but even a little of that helps a lot.

I'm so happy with our new apartment. We have almost made it totally baby proof but there still is a few 'no's'. We have her bedroom set up and it makes me so happy that she has a place for herself and I don't have to worry about anything. We have a rocking chair (which I am sitting in right now) in the room and all her toys to get into and everything. She has been sleeping in here for almost a week now but the last couple days have been really challenging. She has been fussy the last couple of days and I wonder if she might be feeling bad because both me and Bob have been sick these last couple of days and who knows if something is bothering her, you know. The only 'no' in her room is the trash can I guess, I forgot about that until she just started emptying it a few minutes ago, lol. I tried to hide it, but she found it :)


Last night she slept in our bed because she woke up at 2am bawling and nothing I did made her happy. So Bob went and got her and brought her to bed. And she slept great there with us, although bob didn't really. I slept so hard I didn't really notice much, plus my stomach felt horrid so I let bob mess with her. Anabel is really cuddly when she is sleeping and she kept getting as close as she could to Bob… and Bob doesn't do well with someone next to him for to long. So Anabel would roll towards him, he would scoot away, she would follow… and this kept happening till I woke up and saw Bob curled up at the end of the bed… it was hilarious! Although I'm sure Bob didn't think so, heh