22 & 23 weeks - Spaghetti Squash anyone???

22 & 23 weeks - time is really flying by! I was at the Farmer's Market last week and was surprised at how big a spaghetti squash really is! Although HerHe only weighs a little over a pound - much less than your typical spaghetti squash - it's still getting tough to carry this around!

HerHe's lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and (s)he's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath its gums. Eyes have formed, but his irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment. We even have some hair growing in - but if HerHE is anything like me - I was bald until I was almost 1. If you want you can even see inside my womb, (well not my womb - but a cool example of a womb).

So over the last weekend we did a ton of work on the house and baby's room. I finally cleaned out the closets in there - who knew you could fit that much stuff in two small closets! We built some extra shelves and put up a new bar for hanging baby clothes in one of the closets. We also painted above the picture moulding to prep for the crown moulding which will go up next weekend thanks to my handy husband!  (If you need your fireplace retiled or crown moulding put up - Steve is your man!) All of this prep work is making this more real. Along with really starting to feel the movement inside. 

We are going to use this area as a changing area for the baby - it was my art nook but we've move that to the laundry room. And I know you are all anticipating the reveal of the fireplace that Steve has been working on. We've got a few more days for it to be 100% complete so I am going to hold off for another post on the big reveal. But here's a sneak peek - we painted the interior of the fireplace this weekend but still need to hang a shelf inside. We're going to make the unusable fireplace usable by turning it into a little bookshelf!

On a sad note, AppleSauce was running around with a neighbors dog and seems to have hurt his back last week. So aside from his little pathetic broken ear (that was already broken when we found him at the Humane Society) - he looks even more sad now that we have to keep him immobilized and in his cage so he can heal. He's on pain killers and steroids to help with inflammation - so he's really out of it. It breaks my heart so see him like this. He needs to be carried down stairs and he's been trembling as soon as the meds start to wear off. I can only imagine if my human child gets injured! I know HerHe will at some point, but I don't have to think about that just yet. 

And because I included a pic of Saucer - I just had to include this pic of PC in drag!