What Baby?

Baby Peach (for the 13th week size) has just returned from her first missions trip in West Virginia and her first experience with junior high craziness!! The entire four days of our trip the junior highers joked about how they think I'm having twins. I experienced everything from hearing the neverending chant "What Baby? Toler's Baby! Keisha's Twins!!" to even seeing a drawing of the future twins' faces on Toler's big belly (sparing you from seeing that picture!) to even having junior highers tossing corn hole bags for me to have twins. It was too funny, most of the time! :-) We won't know for sure anything until the first week of September, so I guess I'll just have to put up with it until then. I love those kids though and am glad to have all those who have "cursed" me with twins already as FREE babysitters any time I choose!

As for what Baby Peach developed last week and is developing this week, here's what WhattoExpect.com has to say:

12th week
"By now, your baby weighs a full half-ounce and is about the size of a large plum. Most of his systems are in place, though there's still plenty of maturing to do. For one thing, his fetal digestive system is beginning to practice contraction movements so he can eat someday, and his bone marrow is busy making white blood cells — weapons against germs once he's out of your safe haven. The pituitary gland (at the base of the brain) has started producing the hormones that'll enable him (or her) to make babies of his (or her) own in a couple of decades or so."

13th week
"What's up with your baby? Well, that big old noggin is now about half the size of her crown-to-rump length. By the time you give birth, her body will catch up, measuring three-quarters of her total size. In other news, the intestines are beginning to move from the umbilical cord to the abdomen, and the vocal chords are well under construction (the first step toward one day saying, "I love you, Mommy!")"

Tomorrow we take Baby Peach out of the country for his/her very first time as we go on our very first vacation and relax on the beaches of Punta Cana. Our baby is already experiencing more than either JR or I experienced in our first few years of life! Please pray for safety and good weather. We look forward to this time but will be glad to get home to our family and friends. God bless each and every one of you!