...and one more makes it 15 weeks!

It's become a weekly ritual for us-we await the email with bated breath from Babycenter to see what food item Thing 1 & Thing 2 are resembling this week. Then we put a picture of said fruit, no wait, a picture of TWO pieces of said fruit, on our computer screen's background. A tad bit goofy, we concede, but it's become our fun preparing for babies ritual. If we lived closer to Karen we would measure her belly each week and post her waist measurement here, so I'm sure she appreciates us obsessing about this instead. But, I digress-back to the weekly email. We got the email, and low and behold, no mention of fruit! Really. No fruit. Here is the first few lines of our email, my comments in blue. The email refers to the babies as "he", and no, don't get excited, does not mean we are having two boys.

At around 4 inches long, crown to rump, your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 ounces. Cool, what fruit do they look like? He's busy inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid, which will help develop the air sacs in his lungs. No mention of a food item yet...maybe it's coming soon. I'll read on. His legs are growing longer than his arms now, and he can move all his joints and limbs. Y'all don't be kicking
each other now, play nicely. That means his hands are more functional, too. Functional and looking like a fruit maybe? Sweat glands are appearing, (and if he takes after mommy, there will be many of those) and although his eyelids are fused
shut, he can sense light. Fruit? If you shine a flashlight at your tummy, he's likely to move away from the beam. There's not much for your baby to taste at this point, but his taste buds are beginning to form. And if you have an ultrasound, you may be able to find out whether your baby's a boy or girl! Not that we're not excited about finding out sexes (c'mon October 18!), but after 13 weeks of reading about babies being a fruit size, we're hooked.

I was curious to see if we would be getting a fruit update next week, so I checked next week, and there is mention of a fruit. Phew. So for this week Keith and I decided to pick up the slack for Babycenter and we will refer to the babies as pears. So here is the picture currently on the background: I call it twin pears, transverse/transverse.