To my honey

Andy is graduating in a few weeks!! This last few months have been super tough. Getting up at the crack of dawn and working six days a week, all while finishing his masters. I'm proud of him and all his hard work. In just a few short weeks, it will all be over. He will be graduating with a masters in exercise science. My oh-so-talented girlfriend LeAnna designed these awesome graduation invitations for us. I love them so much I could eat them.
I am now in my second trimester. Whoo hoo! I had a dream last night that they were taking me to the hospital to induce labor. I was saying: I'm only 14 weeks. I dont think this is a good idea. But, they were insisting. Pretty funny, considering it is the ONLY dream I've had about the baby so far. It was a boy in my dream, by the way, but I'm still holding out for PINK. ;)

Here's a look inside:

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.