almost a pound.

Week Twenty-Two(that's five and a half months friends.)

• Your baby weighs close to a pound at this point!
• When you talk, read, or sing, expect her to hear you. Studies have found that newborns will suck more vigorously when read to from a book they heard frequently in utero. (don't call my baby a thumbsucker)
• The eyes are developed, though the iris (the colored part of the eye) still lacks pigment.
• Eyelids and eyebrows are fully formed.
• Fingernails have grown to the end of the fingers.
• Be prepared for all those "Why" questions coming! Your baby's brain has entered a stage of rapid growth, especially in what's called the germinal matrix. This structure deep in the middle of the brain serves as a kind of factory for brain cells and disappears shortly before birth. But the brain's amazing expansion program continues until around the five birth day.
• With some help from mom, baby's liver is starting to break down bilirubin, a substance produced by red blood cells.
• If your baby is male his testes begin their descent t o the scrotum.
• Primitive sperm have formed and he is producing testosterone.
• Length is 10.94 inches (27.8cm); weight is nearly 1 pound (430gm)

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here are some of the latest wee treasures:


from bubbie and zadie chambers.....talking puppies, books, music that herschel and i will have to get used to and..... a wee swing! good for fat pants days/weekends


from berry and marc:

for after-swimming, after-bath, after-championship prize fighting matches...

from team leggett: a spiderman bib b/c you know the wee must love spidey.(my weasely chicken-pox creature is now the official model for wee baby things.)

from lauren: our first diapers! plus the best rattle clacker in the south and other baby necessi-tays.

from a friend-of-a-friend:

leftovers from their umpteen million baby showers. thanks!



because sometimes we can't resist buying things...
mouser footie pajamas...

my favorite.

and herschel's favorite... the lion.

and, the smallest shirt known to mankind.... i had to buy because they are unnaturally small. here is a dvd for comparison (or dee vah dee as jansen would say)

and then i just had to put it on the weasel but i swear i don't sit at home dressing him up.

thanks everybody!