ho-hum

Boredom has plagued me as of late. I can't seem to find anything I want to do. I'm thinking maybe I should start knitting something for the baby but I just don't feel like it. I wonder if that's just one of those "baby blues" side effects?

While at Sam's Club this afternoon I picked up a new book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. It's relatively small so it probably wouldn't take me all that long to read it. EW.com calls it a "new book classic," which is a group of 100 books they put together that have been written since 1983. They could have just said they were the best books written in the past 25 years. I'm such a doofus that I sat here and went, "What's so special about 1983?" and then I was like, "oh duh." :oP I don't know how accurate the list is because number two on the list is Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire. GREAT BOOK, but I don't think I'd put it at like number 2. Wally Lamb wasn't even on the list and his books are fabulous!

Anywho. Tomorrow I will be 9 weeks along. Here is where the baby is!

How your baby's growing:

Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.

See what's going on in your uterus this week.

Note: Every baby develops a little differently — even in the womb. Our information is designed to give you a general idea of your baby's development


So that's that. I guess I'm off to read my book. Sorry if this post is sorta disjointed. My heart's just not into it today.