23 weeks and crap bags

Hey Auntie Sophie.

no picture this week, mummy has a cold and says 2 things, 1) she feels like a bag of crap and so 2) there is no way she's putting herself up for all the world to see until she's feeling better.

we're trying to make her feel better by kicking around lots so she knows we're ok. we aren't sure if that is helping much though.

we can hear stuff now, it's a bit muffled but we can hear the songs mummy dances to and feel when she's dancing to them. our inner ears have formed well enough so that we can also feel when we're upside down, and when mummy is laying down or walking around.

we are the size of papayas, and if you could measure us from the top of our heads to our toes we're almost the same length as a 30cm ruler!! so as far as those measurements go, we're pretty much as long as we're going to be, but we are soooooo skinny.
mummy and daddy say we are like little saggy baby bags at the moment. over the next few weeks we're going to start getting fat! we've currently got more skin than anything else so we've got to concentrate on filling out so we have lovely squishy cheeks to kiss when we get out.

we now weigh in at just over 1lb each which has taken the last 23 weeks to do. over the next 4 weeks we're going to reach the 2lb mark, so we're going to be very busy growing. mummy's tummy is going to grow by 1 to 2 cm a week. this week it's 109cm. daddy was trying to make her feel better until she held the tape measure around his tummy to show him what he'd be in 4 weeks time at our growth rate, its like adding a whole other daddy to him.

we are still practicing kicks, punches, stretches, sucking our thumbs and grabbing. we can both grab our own hands and feet and sometimes we grab our cords, not too tight though because we're still only little.
our tiny little lungs have been busy too, we've made little pockets which when we get out will fill with air so we can breath just like mummy and daddy do, we're just pretending to now.

this week we have been awake for longer than we've slept each day, and beacuse we're moving around better now, mummy has also had less sleep. we think that might be why she has a bit of a cold, sorry mummy!

Auntie Amy felt us kick on Wednesday, she went with mummy for a coffee and as soon as mummy sat down we started wriggling. we don't wait for it to be evening time now, we wiggle when ever we feel like it. and our wiggling is much stronger now...mummy puts her lip gloss tin on her tummy and we try to kick it off, sometimes we just make it jump a bit but we've kicked it right off a couple of times now.

so thats it for this week, just plenty of wiglging, getting nice and strong and hopefully not making mummy too tired.

will write again next week
lots of love
from
The Beans xxx