22 Weeks

Time is really flying by!! I can't believe we only have 18 weeks, at the most, before we get to meet Emily. Eric and I have been keeping busy working on the nursery. We got the chair rail up and now I just need to put on the finishing touches and paint! I think it looks really good for two people who have never put up a chair rail before!!

So here are the neat facts about Emily at 22 weeks: This week Emily weighs in around one pound and is about 11 inches long head to toe! At this point Emily can hear well, and loud sounds may startle her. Eric and I have made a CD of us reading stories that we are going to send to Lori so that she can play them for Emily and she will get to know our voices. We read Horton Hears a Who, and I know that someday Emily will crack up listening to it. Eric and I were laughing so hard listening to the recording!! Between flubbing lines and starting off a paragraph as the narrator and then switching voices half way through after realizing it was a character speaking it turned out to be really funny!!! We have a couple of other stories to read to her, and we each also recorded a little message for her. Lori reports that Emily continues to kick and move around a lot. She also said that Emily is more active during the day, so we're praying that keeps up after birth, hehe!