Hello Friends & Family--

Things are still going really well! Baby Boy is doing great and I think is finally starting to grow (well enough so that I can notice). These past couple of days are the first real days I've felt pregnant and at 21 weeks it's about time! **I still need to post last weeks pic, but that would mean I need to find the camera cord! I'm on it though! In other news, we are starting to work on the nursery, in small stages of course. We are currently replacing all of the original windows in the house and the nursery window was just completed this weekend! Yes, this is something we are doing ourselves (with the help of a couple of friends). They were much needed as the other windows were old and single pain, not very efficient! With the window out of the way we are now onto deciding on a paint color and getting the decorating started! We still have not picked out a theme OR a name, but I assure you we are working on it!

Here's what our little man is measuring out at this week!

Your Pregnancy: Week 21

Gasp...is that a stretch mark?!! Take deep breaths and remember -- they'll fade after delivery No stretch marks for me as of yet! Your skin may also feel dry and itchy, especially over your emerging bump. Take a cue from your fetus, now coated by vernix (a milky, protective cream), and slather on the lotion.

Baby's now the size of a banana!
Baby's digestive system is busy creating meconium (a tarry black substance made of swallowed amniotic fluid, digestive secretion, and dead cells), which will fill the first diaper after birth. And, if baby is a girl, her womb is now stocked up with her lifetime supply of six million eggs (the number will drop to around one million by birth).

Hope everyone is surviving all of the snow and cold weather! This last storm brought us around 10", but not nearly as much as our neighbors to the North--Minnesota received 20"! Yikes!

Love,

Chris, Amber & Baby Z