Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. To meet his increasing nutritional demands, you'll need plenty of protein, vitamins C, folic acid, and iron. And because his bones are soaking up lots of calcium, be sure to drink your milk (or find another good source of calcium, such as cheese, yogurt, or enriched orange juice). This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in your baby's hardening skeleton each day.
Now everyone's favorite part, the belly shots:
I sorta like the last one best, not only do those shorts fit better now then when we painted the outside of the house but it looks like I have consealed a ball under that shirt. I guess this gives you a hint as to how the nursery is coming along...we bought the Elfa system on Friday so we could get the closet in order. Once I had that system in my hot little hands I simply couldn't wait to get it in. I had the closet cleared out before Dominic even swapped the SUV for a car, about 15min. We filled holes and primed the whole thing that evening and the following morning when Dominic worked I painted the final coat (it's the same as both bedrooms in our house, imperfect pearl). The system is pretty easy to install and since we've done one before we made quick work of this one. I have a few of our dressier things and some clothes that are too big for us in there now but I'm going to do a little more purging before it all goes back in. Overall I'm thrilled with the results. Oh and the baskets at the bottom are holding toys and blankets and I intend to use them mainly for toy storage since they're at a great level for baby to reach! Total for the closet system, baskets and paint $400.
The walls were filthy
And the new tele came in handy!
Painted and ready to install the new system
team work :)
It's not all back in yet but not everything is going back in so I'm only putting those things that are CERTAINLY staying back for now.
The walls were filthy
And the new tele came in handy!
Painted and ready to install the new system
team work :)
It's not all back in yet but not everything is going back in so I'm only putting those things that are CERTAINLY staying back for now.
And to prove that I don't have a bunch of stuff left to find a home for...here is the desk that was piled high last time. I do have a few frames underneath because I'm horrible at deciding where to hang things.
However, I did get out my trusty hammer and tape measure and get a few things on the wall like our wedding gift from Cindy and my parents....our family tree. If you pay attention you'll notice that the tree is not yet completed but I have until our first anniversary for that, right Cin ;)
And off topic still, I'm really trying to pare down my closet so that one day soon Dominic and I can share the master. This is only half of mine, but the other is not really used too much, mainly just long hanging stuff that's rarely worn. His is actually 2ft longer than mine right now but if we ever want to have a baby then we need to clear some space and that means combining. Remember a while back when Dominic purged??? At least I've got him started ;)
Just incase you were wondering, this is the adjoining dining room. Much more spacious, and with new tulips for this week
Just incase you thought I was truely finished, here is the desk with all the 'what do I do with this' items....I think the majority are destined for the trash since we don't really use any of this. With the exception of my wonderful basket, thanks mom! 
We decided to take a little walk and find out what else the festival had to offer when we stumbled upon the asparagus eating contest. This is no amature competition, it's goverened by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. We waited in the hot sun (mid 80's) for the competition to begin and were amazed at the different approaches to readying the stocks for quick consumption. Many of the guys were pouring tons of beverages and drenching the stocks with water. Two of the best were in attendance, Joey Chestnut and Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (both currently ranked higher than the well known Takeru Kobayashi). Of course the hometown boy Joey (he's from San Jose) won for the 4th year in a row...you might notice the numbers they're holding up, that's how many pounds they have eaten already, and the final was more than 8lbs for both first and second place (that's in 10min)
Now that eating was the furthest thing from my mind, we continued to walk around and stumbled upon another fun competition, a dog competition. The pups were in a relay where they had to jump the hurdles and pull the ball off the board and return back when the next dog took off...it's amazing how well they time those jumps so they don't even lose stride.
At this point we were trying to avoid sunburn and decided it was best to head home, but again we came across something interesting...check out the truck we discovered between stockton and modesto....I made Dominic slow down so I could capture this unique vehicle
Finally we arrived home and thankfully were NOT sunburned, here is the pup in her typical weekend rest period, followed by her crazy time, she literally moves from one straight into the other without provoking and the back to rest again
I was doing my morning blog role call and found these 
