Geoff's a smarty!

At the park tonight, Geoffrey filled his bucket up with sand and then dumped it out to make a mountain.

Then, i showed him how to use his new sand sifter to shake out the sand and collect the shells and rocks. He loved that!

I thought about showing him how to sift the sand into his bucket so he could fill the bucket up at the same time as he looked for shells, but then I though, eh, he is fine, no need to force him to multitask, right?

So guess what he starts doing, on his own? That's right! What a smarty!

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21 weeks

Hi Baby!

I had a Dr.s visit and an ultrasound this week and everything looks awesome! You are growing just as you should be, and everything that we can see via ultrasound is functioning properly. Good job, little one!

I am feeling you kick every day now, and occasionally, I can feel you from outside on my belly! SO exciting! Daddy or Geoffrey haven't had the chance to feel you yet, but hopefully soon!

I am feeling pretty good at this point - not a lot of heartburn (I notice salad causes it so I've been avoiding that!), and I've been drinking lots of water. I have more significant back and hip pain this time around (getting off the ultrasound table was quite difficult!) but last night I did a pregnancy yoga dvd and it made me feel so much better! I need to do that more often! Literally, it erased my pain for about two hours!

Your baby now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. You may soon feel like she's practicing martial arts as her initial fluttering movements turn into full-fledged kicks and nudges. You may also discover a pattern to her activity as you get to know her better. In other developments, your baby's eyebrows and lids are present now, and if you're having a girl, her vagina has begun to form as well.

20 weeks

How your baby's growing:

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)

He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).

 

Golden 2nd Trimester

I am very happy to report that overall, I am feeling fine! I have the occasional bout of indigestion / heartburn, but I don't think it is even as bad as with Geoffrey.

I do have some hip pains, and lower belly pains, particularly when laying down at night and then getting up in the morning.

I am pretty sure now that I am feeling the baby move and kick. This was something I was a bit obsessed with when I first got to Australia, and I took every little twinge as a possible movement, and then 2nd guessed. Now I am fairly certain that I am feeling it here and there. Yeah!!!

Geoff in Australia

Geoff is having fun in Australia. He loves all the city transportation - the trains, the buses, the ferries (although not as much!)

He's been very clingy to me, specifically - not surprising, being that it is summer, and we are moving around a lot.

He is so cute the way he speaks in complete sentences and repeats you. "Do you want an apple?"

"Yes, I want an apple!"

Last night, I put him to bed and left him in the room (we have a vacation club unit so Grant and I were doing laundry out in the living room). I heard him whimper, so I came back and said "What's wrong?"

He wasn't whimpering. He said in a sweet high pitched voice, "Sweet Dreams!"

I said, "Oh, sweet dreams, I love you!" so cute!