21 weeks tomorrow

(photo from www.baby2see.com) Tomorrow I'm 21 weeks - another week under my belt (or should I say belly?) with little Spot. She's still making some crazy progress growing and I'm getting bigger by the day now I swear. But no complaints here - grow to your heart's content Spot!
* Length is now measured crown to heel.
* The fetus has grown to 10.5 inches (27 cm) - 12.7 ounces (360 grams).
* It is now gaining weight steadily, with fat being added to the body.
* Bone marrow has started making blood cells.
* Their small intestine is starting to absorb sugars.
Your baby's bone marrow has started making blood cells, a job done by the liver and spleen until this point. The placenta has provided nearly all of your baby's nourishment, now your baby will begin to absorb small amounts of sugar from swallowed amniotic fluid.
Based on the size of baby's head, which is about 2 inches (5cm), the date of birth can be determined to within one week. The fetus is steadily gaining fat and has grown a whitish coat of a slick, fatty substance to protect skin in amniotic fluid and to ease delivery.

In girls, the vagina is formed and the ovaries already contain over six million eggs which will be reduced to about 400 by the time of puberty. The baby can hear and recognize the mother's voice, and may respond to some types of music.

I think that little girl Spot can definitely recognize music that has any kind of a good beat to it - or anything with base. Whenever I'm in the car and music comes on with an upbeat rhythm - she starts moving all around. It's kind of funny. Spot also seems to move around a lot when the channel on Sirius radio is on that plays a lot of 90's music (lithium - 24). A little girl after her mom and dad's heart! Also amazing to me is that her ovaries already contain 6 million eggs - pieces of our future family so far away already present inside me (and her). I already have such hopes for her, hopes that involve her being free of all the problems we've had. I know it seems crazy to think of her life in these terms already - but how could I not want her to be free of any congenital abnormalities or problems?

Our house was a bit of a zoo this weekend - but it was fun to be around none the less. My sister's husband came over to help move out the remaining furniture from the nursery with my husband. Also my husband's parents drove a van up from Ohio and they took the furniture from our spare bedroom (it was their's actually) and some spare lamps so that we would have more room for nursery and baby stuff. The painter was also over at one point to solidify plans for some additional work he is doing. I can't wait to see how different everything will look.

Although there was a lot of activity going on around the house, I tried to take it easy on the couch. The control freak in me is so hard to restrain sometimes and I feel like there is person inside who just wants to jump up - say screw bedrest and start cleaning out some closets. My husband has threatened to duck tape me to the couch - so I guess I'll continue to go with the flow for now, LOL! Time has started to pass more quickly, but lately I've been feeling a little buggy - I think the last 8 weeks since the cerclage has been starting to finally catch up.

My husband finally convinced me to watch the first of the Lord of the Rings movies - I'm not usually into that genre of movies - but I have to admit it was pretty good and held my interest. We have the other two, so maybe next weekend we'll finish them up. I also started watching the John Adam's miniseries from Netflix (it had been on a wait list) - and it is awesome! I can't wait to see the other two discs. It was cool to see how they were trying do the smallpox vaccine way back in the 1776's by such old fashioned means compared to current vaccination methods for other diseases. Also, I had to smile at one scene where Abigail Adams heard soldiers coming down the path outside their house (around the time of the revolution) while she was the only one home with the children. Instead of hiding in the house, she grabbed a long rifle and went outside to see who was coming down the path at their house. Now that's a woman with some fight in her who takes action! Kind of gives a girl a little inspiration to keep fighting, huh?

I started two new books that are pretty good also. The rest of the time was spent filling my stomach with two of my latest cravings: oreo milkshakes (from anywhere) and buffalo chicken wraps from Buffa.lo Wild Wings. At night time I've turned into a peanut butter and jelly on english muffin loving kind of girl. Yum! Tomorrow is another trip to the OB's office, another shot in the bottom and hopefully a quiet afternoon. Maybe I'll be brave and post another belly shot - it's been a few weeks. Thanks for all of your feedback on the bedding last time - I caved in and ordered it yesterday. And the online shopping continues! What should I buy next?