Lil Mac: 14 Weeks

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.

Wow, I'm in the 2nd trimester...where is the time going? Still feeling great! I'm definitely blessed and have not had any morning sickness with Lil Mac. I'm feeling very light flutters at night when I'm getting ready to go to bed which is a great feeling. I definitely see how a first time mom misses these feelings so early. But I suppose because it's my second time I'm more aware of what those feelings are.

Other than that I'm just busying chasing Brody around the house. This week he was not feeling well due to allergies and had a terrible diaper rash that has required around the clock care. I've been getting up every 2-3 hours at night to doctor it up but this morning it was almost completely gone! My poor baby, it was awful for him.

This week is TAKS week here in the good ole state of Texas so its been extremely hectic. Then we have a field trip tomorrow to the Fort Worth Zoo with my PreAP students. I'm really excited to get outta here for the day.

Our dog Molly is going through a rough time. We lost her brother, Haus in March and she just hasn't been the same. She has never been alone before so I think it's getting to her. She isn't eating well and will got 2-3 days without eating and on Tuesday I had a message when I got done testing from the Animal control saying they had her at the pound because she had dug under our fence and gotten out. So she's spending a few days at her Nana's and Poppy's to get some TLC because of our crazy, busy schedule.

Once this week is over I will be money and have only 5 weeks left of school! One of which is just reviewing for finals :) I can taste summer break!