Which bit is growing this week?

Since everyone’s keen to find out the developmental stages of our baby, thought I’d start giving a summary each week.

At 14 weeks, the baby grows a layer of lanugo – very fine hair covering its whole body. It also starts to grow hair on its head and eyebrows (hopefully not of the mono variety). The baby can now grasp, squint, frown, grimace and even suck its thumb. David has been poking my stomach with his fingers hoping to feel the baby sucking it, it DIDN’T work. From head to bum, the baby should be around 9cm long. If you add the legs, it’s a pretty decent size, but no, I still can’t feel it. Sometimes I think I can feel something, but it’s probably my lunch. I’m also showing a bit more now, people who know that I’m pregnant can definitely tell, everyone else thinks I’ve eaten a horse.

Earth Hour

To celebrate Earth Hour on Saturday we decided to go to Coogee Beach to check out the ‘special message’ the boy scouts would spell out on the beach with candles. What we thought would be a huge message covering the whole beach turned out to be a much smaller affair and we didn’t even wait to see what the final message was. Instead, we went into the city to watch the ‘darkness’. Driving in was a little spooky as the usually well lit cit buildings seemed to have disappeared and it seemed as though we were moving towards a black void. We arrived at Mrs Macquarie’s Point to find a small group of very loud Chinese tourist who weren’t informed about Earth Hour and were busy snapping away thinking the Harbour was a little dim, oh the urge to tell them what they were really looking at! And about 20 minutes before the lights were due to go back up, they were ushered back onto the tour bus! Hehehehe…

We did get some good shots of the darken harbour and a couple of fighting possums in the tree we were standing next to.

Love, Viv