like candy

33 weeks...and it really feels like it's getting close now.

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

We've been eating a lot of pineapple lately; it's in season and sooo delicious. When Daddy eats it he always exclaims, "it's like candy!". That's what you are to us baby boy, sooo unexpected, sweet, and wonderful that you're 'like candy'.

Speaking of candy, we already have a Reece, and love him to pieces. This week, I'll call you Heath. I've always liked that name. : )

Thank you, Lord, for 33 weeks and another day.