27 weeks

I was home Thursday night, and Megan has been wanting more photos taken now that her belly button is about to pop, so we shot these.

These photos were shot at 27 weeks, the last week of the second trimester. I wanted to go for something more artsy, but since we don't have a studio, per se, I improvised.

Megan told me today that our babycenter.com daily e-mails say the baby is 14 1/2 inches long right now and he will get to be his maximum height (or length) over the course of the next three weeks before he starts to fill out weight wise. My guess is he's longer, probably about 15 or 16 inches.

In other news, the baby's room is coming together. Since we were snowed in on Thursday, I spent the morning putting together the dresser and changing table. Wrigley still isn't sure what to think as our former bedroom continues to see daily or weekly changes and she's confused as to why the room is empty.

We've let her walk in there, though, and sniff around. Megan had her in the rocking chair and also let her smell the baby's clothes. We're positive she has an idea that something is changing, although we don't think she knows what that change is.

We continue to prepare Wrigley by tugging at her ears and tail, and we try to stick a finger in her mouth so she knows what the baby might do. So far, she'll put her teeth on us, but she doesn't bite. She just licks. We praise her for being a good girl in hopes she'll do the same for the baby. Overall, we know the cohabitation of Wrigley and the baby will not be an issue. Wrigley is very laid back and loves kids (we'll see how much she loves them when the baby wakes up in the middle of the night and is crying). She is more of a quiet follower who loves to be around people.