Week 22

Week 22 brings a bunch of things – it was this previous week that these things happened.  I can verify these things:

• The baby reacts to loud sounds
• The baby starts having regular sleeping and waking rhythms
• The mother’s movements can wake the baby

In talking to the baby (yes, face to stomach) Jolene has felt the baby move after I speak loudly to her.  She seems to wake up every night around 10 o’clock. This might be because of what we’re doing at 10 o’clock (sitting at the computer) or perhaps because she’s decided that she likes to be up at night.

Mom is doing well.  The baby seems to like to jump up and down a lot, literally bouncing off of the walls.

Renovations

We’ve begun the final ‘chore list’ that needs to be done before we end our summer vacation.  I’ve installed a rack of baskets for additional storage in our room:

We also got a new loft bed – given to Ben by Aunt Carissa.  He loves it, he can have his computer in his room now:

I think the  lesson is, when you can’t build out, build up.

Week 23

This week the baby will reach 1 pound in weight.  The baby will have her nostrils open for the first time.  I didn’t know they were closed.  The baby is now ‘working out’, as they say, by bouncing back and forth.  We know this is already happening though.  Finally, a full nervous system is now being created.  Most amusingly, the baby has wrinkly skin right now.  She’ll ‘grow into it’.  I guess this is like putting on a clean shirt from the dryer that you left for too long before hanging.

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