Last night it started snowing around 8:15 and kept it up most of the night! We woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland this morning!

Unfortunately, it was bright and sunny by this afternoon and it's nearly all gone. It was fun while it lasted!!

My nurse called last night with the results from my bloodwork part of the NT scan I had last week (to check for Down's and other birth defects). Everything came back really good! What a relief! I am still loving my doppler and can't get enough of hearing this little one's heartbeat. It is normally staying in the 160's.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! We are staying at the Hyatt Regency in Houston tomorrow night for Calvin's company Christmas party, can't wait to get away!!

Week 14

Your pregnancy: 14 weeks
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How your baby's growing:This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.