Nothing clever to say about an ear of corn.... Baby Logan - Week 24

A gloomy day outside my window, but Logan doesn't seem to mind as he is still dancing around in tummyland. It has been a good week. Grandpa Hunt painted Logan's room a lovely blue color last weekend and I love it! We didn't want a baby blue room so the color worked out perfect! I can't wait until we buy a crib and start getting bedding and such and really putting his room together! I suppose the rest of the house needs to get done too, doesn't it? :-) This weekend will be a major push to finish everything - I'm pretty sure we will do just that! Mom has been doing the electrical and other odds and ends and Dad has been busy finishing painting. I think he will take a long break from painting! But overall the house is coming together great! Friends of the family (Rita and Wally Perkins) came over to shampoo our carpets just to be nice! They did the whole main floor last night and then will come back on Monday to do the bedrooms! Such a great present for them to give us! Nathan has been crazy busy cutting new baseboard for the ENTIRE house. He has done a fantastic job though - I am lucky he is such a patient man - jobs like these would make me crazy!

So every week when I get my baby update in my email, it also has a mommy update too. It seems my uterus should be about an inch above my belly button (which it feels like it is) and the size of a SOCCER BALL! That seems crazy to me - what is even MORE crazy is that it is going to get bigger. I should try not to think about that part!

Alright - time to get to Logan - this post is supposed to be about him right? Here you go!

Your baby's growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week, when he was just over a pound (I can't believe he is about 1.5 pounds!) . Since he's almost a foot long - picture an ear of corn, that makes a pretty lean figure, but his body is filling out proportionally and he'll soon put on more baby fat. Your baby's skin is thin, translucent, and wrinkled, his brain is growing rapidly, and his taste buds are developing. (I wonder how long it will take for him to be able to taste what I eat. That is kind of strange, but somewhere I read that actually happens! Who knows if that is true or not.) His lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" and cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily.