This Week, I am Learning To...

...be independent. I have 5 senses and they all work great. I am completely fascinated by them and love to practice using them. Mommy says that I am working out in here, I am just doing a little biking and kickboxing lately. I gotta work up my stanima for the big dance. I am growing hair and fingernails and toenails very well (as long as Mommy keeps drinking all that yummy milk!) and occasionally, I scratch myself with my nails, these puppies are sharp! But don't worry, I am working on my immune system to function properly and it gets the practice it needs when I cut myself, sadly enough. But it doesn't really hurt. I love to look around in here, although the view isn't very good (can't wait to see my Mommy and Daddy!). I have blue eyes, in case you were wondering, but that may soon change. It can change after I am exposed to light (I've heard it's very bright.) and it will take months to grow into the color that I will keep for the rest of my life. Now, just to warn you, I am a boy, so I have parts on me that little girls don't have (Mommy says that Daddy is in charge of explaining that to me as I grow up, I don't understand what they are talking about at all yet)...anyways, so my testicles are descending into the scrotum now. I read that somewhere, don't know what it means, but you might, so I told you.

This Week I Am Learning To...

...respond to Mommy and Daddy touching me {the other day, Daddy felt my head and pushed on it a little bit through Mommy's tummy and I quickly moved out of the way and kicked her bladder, but Daddy found my head again on the other side of the belly! He's good!} You could see my response to touch and stronger brain waves for vision and hearing if you were to do a brain scann on my little head today. My brain is also gaining those important grooves and valleys, instead of being smooth and gelotionous. I am growing hair!! {We'll see how much I end up with after I come out of here in a few more weeks!} I also have eyelashes, long gorgeous eyelashes (Mommy will love them!).My lungs are forming well, I have air sacs and surfactant, which will help them expand when I get that first bit of oxygen soon. My spine is hard and long and very distinguashable as vertibrets now. I'm a boy, so I habe officially gainied the proper body parts outside of my body at this point. My skin and veins are still very thin, but are visible; I am beginning to put on fat deposits, rapidly. Mommy is also excited, she has officially begin her 3rd trimester today! I bet she and Daddy can't wait to see me!

This Week I Am Learning To...

...hear much better because my inner ear bones are hardening, I still love Daddy's voice, it soothes me right to sleep everytime (Mommy hopes this will continue after I'm out of my cozy warm home). I have fully formed eyes, but no color yet, we'll see what eye color I have when I come out in October! Aunt Lisa would be proud of me, I have the o-so-important enamel on my teeth now! My lungs are beginning to develop so that I can breathe that oxygen-stuff when I get outta here.

Mommy will tell you that I am moving around ALOT now, but it's only because I need to strengthen my muscles before I start to play baseball someday! Mommy says that my favorite time to play around in here is when Daddy gets up for work at 3 in the morning. It keeps Momma up and she watches some TV to go back to sleep every morning. (She'll be the forst to tell you that there's nothing on TV at 4 in the morning!)

I'm still growing growing growing!!

So Mommy puts these updates up every week on Thursdays, cause that's my "birthday of the week" right now. She uses a couple of websites to get some info on what's going on in my little world so that all of you will know what I'm up to! Hope you enjoy! She wants to keep this going for a long long time!!