My Pregnancy: Week 26

Baby's now the size of an English cucumber!

The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before.  She may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other.  She's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of her lungs.  These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when she's born and takes that first gulp of air.  And she's continuing to put on baby fat.  She now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches from head to heel.

I'm afraid there's not much to report on this week other than I have been feeling pretty good.  My energy levels are up and I am loving life!  My face is starting to break out more and more recently.  But if this follows the same pattern it did when I was pregnant with Leila, this is only the beginning!

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Yesterday Jason came home from work early so that we could take Leila to the Museum of Natural Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point.  They do a special every Tuesday in August that all of their entrance fees are only two bucks (they are usually much, much more).  This was the first time we'd been there since it opened and I was thoroughly impressed.  Leila loved every minute of it.  Hands down, her favorite area was the water room.  It will be nice to go back someday when the crowds aren't so nutso.

Bean Museum (Outing Failure)

Saturday afternoons tend to come around and we sit around a lot like the vultures from Jungle Book (What do you wanna do?  I dunno, what do you wanna do?).  Well, yesterday we decided that we were going to be proactive and come up with a plan to get us out of the house.  We didn't want to spend a lot of money and eventually decided that the newly remodeled Monte L. Bean Life Museum would fit our agenda perfectly.  After all, it is free and Leila likes animals, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, when we got there it was quickly apparent that we weren't the only ones who'd had the idea to come and things were pretty chaotic and loud right when we walked in the doors.  This caused Leila to cover her ears and start to get a little skittish right from the get go.  Unfortunately it didn't get better when we saw the animals.  Turns out she likes live animals but the stuffed ones really messed with her somehow.  This was a new thing since we've taken her to Cabella's and she used to love going to look at the animals there.  But she kept covering her ears and saying "scary" but wouldn't let me comfort her or hold her without melting down.  She just wasn't enjoying herself.

And then we found a small slide, that was packed with at least 10 kids trying to go down at once.  She really wanted to go up the treehouse and down the slide but wasn't forceful enough to make her way through the crowd very often.  And she didn't like that.

Needless to say we all got frustrated really fast and our visit barely last 15 minutes.  So we went to visit Grandma Larsen and eat ice cream sandwiches and homemade tamales instead.  Guess we will try the museum again in a few months and see if she does any better!