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Thursday, November 12, 2009

A few photos, and a baby update!

So I had my mom take some pictures of myself and the kids yesterday...tell me which ones you like...I had issues trying to get the kids to take some good pictures with REAL smiles on this first one:




This one would have been perfect minus the tinkerbell couch in the background and the fact that Asher looks like he's completely over taking pictures at this point...

I don't' know why I liked this one since no one is looking at it but again, Asher looks like he wants no part of it while Ayris and I look like we're having a good time.

Again, Asher isn't feeling it =)

Asher decided he'd at least perk up a little bit...

This is the face of a resigned mom at this point...one kid is making crazy faces while the other just can't look at the camera...how am I EVER going to get 4 kids to be in a picture together?



These individual shots with the kids turned out the best...

Although I had to tickle them to get them to smile!

It was worth it though...everyone looks so happy!









Also, I had my 12 week appointment yesterday...heartbeat was 150 bpm. Still no weight gain after three months...I'm still down 2 pounds...woot woot. Wonder if I can keep that going the next 28 weeks. (Well that sucks. 28 weeks? After I wrote that number out just now, I thought, that can't be right...that sounds like forever!! And I thought three months down was good). I'm kidding about not gaining weight by the way...it's not like I'm dieting (unless you count lots of pizza, buffalo wings and french fries dieting) and I sure as heck haven't been exercising. I have this goal to not go over 170 though with this pregnancy as 170 is exactly what I weighed at each birth with Ayris and Asher...so yesterday I asked Dr. O'Neil if it was feasible to only gain 18 more pounds in the next 6 months...she said yes but that it would be hard...which probably means I'd actually have to make an effort to only gain that. That's probably not going to happen so we'll just be counting on a miracle.
Baby update 12 weeks:
The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.
Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce

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