week 27

average size: 13.6 to 14.8 inches, 1.5 to 2.2 lbs.
what's going on with baby: "She's practicing inhaling and exhaling with her rapidly developing lungs, and she's showing brain activity! Her brain will keep on getting more complex from here on out."


this past saturday, i went into the 3rd trimester! home stretch! and what a great way to celebrate by...re-painting the windows? hahaha...

erik and i have been trying to think of a good time to re-paint the windows to cover up all that chipping lead paint we have, and it's been difficult because he's always so busy with school (obviously), and i can't do it myself because of the paint fumes and lead paint exposure. so last week we thought saturday might be a good day because his dad offered to help, i could leave the house, and we could stay the night at his parent's house since easter was the next day and we'd be out of the house visiting family all day anyway, so that's when they did it! they worked ALL DAY, and chipped/re-painted 13 of our windows!!! i'm SO glad it's done and over with. they look so much better, and most importantly, now they will be safe for our little girl :) here's a little before and after:

the inside part is all we cared about because these windows don't open anyway, so the outside still has lead paint chipping, but it can't get in to harm her. we also need to clean up the edges on the window's glass, but that won't be hard (just take a razor blade to the glass and scrape off where they painted past the wood). 

SO YAY! i'm very happy this whole thing is over with. and, when we came home after being away for 24 hours, i thought we'd still be able to smell a little bit of paint smell, but NOTHING!!! even better! we chose zero VOC paint (zero volatile chemicals), but could not find low/zero VOC for the primer beforehand so i thought for sure we'd still be able to smell it a bit, but nope! awesome!!! 

on wednesday i tried again to hear her heartbeat for fun on erik's stethoscope but still couldn't hear it. however, i cracked up laughing because when i pressed on my tummy a bit with the stethoscope to see if that would help, she punched or kicked it! hahaha...so, i heard her little punch quite nicely on the stethoscope lol...i called erik over, and he did the same thing, and she did it for him too. invading too much of her space, i guess! sorry!

next tuesday is that giant doctor's appointment with my glucose test, ultrasound, and midwife check-up, so i'll just update on tuesday instead of monday so i can include all that stuff :) i'm hoping to get more photos of her at the ultrasound!!!