When life gives you lemons...

You have to step back and take a look at the miracle of life that is happening before your eyes! I am the size of a lemon this week. I am busy doing a lot of little things in Mommy's tummy. I can squint, grimace, frown, and suck my thumb! I am also kicking and moving up a storm but Mommy most likely cannot feel it yet...Soon she will!

My kidneys have started to work enabling me to now use the bathroom. It might not be the normal thing to be proud of but Mommy and Daddy are VERY proud. Technically, what happens is the fluid that I am hanging out in, the amniotic fluid, basically cycles through me. It is sterile the whole way through when I swallow and then when my kidney's work to produce my #1's! Pretty cool if you ask me!

Mommy has been feeling pretty good lately. Her exhaustion came back though which she was a little bummed about. She has slept most of her 3 day weekend away, which bums her out because she hasn't gotten what she has wanted to get done...done. Oh well, it will eventually get done. Work has not slowed down for Mommy at all and when she gets home from her workday, she crashes hard! The only thing that hasn't been so good is the pain in her lower left abdomen where the doctors discovered her 3 cysts. They are really starting to hurt mommy again, but she knows that there is nothing she can do about them right now. Luckily we have our next doctors appt. in 2 weeks which she will be asking if there is anything more she can do. She has been listening very strictly to the rule of no lifting over 10 lbs. Harder than she ever thought!!

Daddy has been very busy around here too...He has been the biggest help to Mommy. Mommy is finding it pretty difficult to get around, with her joints being stiff and her equilibrium being so thrown off. It's amazing that for such a small thing that I am, how much it affects Mommy physically so early on! Daddy has been so helpful. He rocks! Daddy also has been busy back at his second semester back to school! He is working so hard to get his degree done so he can get a good job for when we make the move back home to the cities! He is also really busy at work but has a 3 day weekend coming up over Easter! He planned Easter lunch for Mommy and himself at Eagle's Crest Grille! It's a very nice restaurant out on one of the nicest golf courses in eastern ND! Mommy is so excited and Daddy is loving the menu!

Here are some fun pictures for you to look at!!

Mommy and "me"!

Daddy, Jack, and "me"!

My comparison to mommy's cell phone!

Just about the same length as something you may use every day! Scotch tape!

Can't wait to see you all next week with my next update! Doctor's appt. update will be given at 16 weeks!

Love you!

-Baby Horton