2 years old! ; 22 weeks; Ty's Birthday Party and edited baseball pics

First, here are some wonderfully edited pictures from the baseball game 2 weeks ago. Thanks Dad for your wonderful editing ability!!!




We had Ty's birthday party last weekend and it was wonderful! Of course a sports themed birthday! It was just low key with lots of toys outside, bagels, coffee, juice, fruit, #2 cookies, cupcakes for the kids and carrot cake for the adults! What a great time!

Thanks to Fern for making the banner for the kids to color!
Our new kids picnic table


Ty's new t-ball set

Golfing
Khalil made it! YEA!!!!


mowing the lawn


coloring on the banner



Happy birthday big boy!







YUM!!!!










Check out our belly bumps!



Proud Mommy & Daddy of the new 2 year old!

Playing hockey




I love this one!



Smooches!

Thanks to Torrey, Jay, Simone, and Jasper for the wagon! What a hit!
Oh do I love this boy!

A blue bicycle helmet and a blue bicycle from Gee Gee Sue and Pops!! WOW!!! What a wonderful present....he's been talking about it for 6 months!



The two handymen putting together the bike

Riding his bike:

Week 22: Baby Bluey is a Papaya

With Baby Bluey

With Tyler:

I'm feeling really good, although definitely bigger than I was with Tyler by maybe 3 weeks. I started prenatal yoga this week with Fern and it was really great. How wonderful to go through pregnancy with your best friend. We are so lucky!

So everyone seems confused that some of the week's fruits seem smaller than the previous week. Hopefully this will help: It's not about the overall size of the fruit. They are comparing the length of the fruit to the size of the baby.


At 11 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound, your baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn. His lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and he's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath his gums. His eyes have formed, but his irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment. If you could see inside your womb, you'd be able to spot the fine hair (lanugo) that covers his body and the deep wrinkles on his skin, which he'll sport until he adds a padding of fat to fill them in. Inside his belly, his pancreas — essential for the production of some important hormones — is developing steadily.
His fingernails are almost fully grown, and his organ systems are becoming more functional and specialized. He has a distinct pair of lips, and his first canines and molars are developing below her gum line. He looks like a miniature newborn. Blood is traveling through the umbilical cord at four miles an hour, fueling her growth with oxygen and nutrients.

• Your baby weighs close to a pound at this point!
• Your baby can now hear your conversations more clearly than before!. When you talk, read, or sing, expect her to hear you. Studies have found that newborns will suck more vigorously when read to from a book they heard frequently in utero.
• Eyelids and eyebrows are fully formed.
  
• Fingernails have grown to the end of the fingers.
• Be prepared for all those "Why" questions coming! Your baby's brain has entered a stage of rapid growth, especially in what's called the germinal matrix. This structure deep in the middle of the brain serves as a kind of factory for brain cells and disappears shortly before birth. But the brain's amazing expansion program continues until around the five birthday.
• With some help from mom, baby's liver is starting to break down bilirubin, a substance produced by red blood cells.
• If your baby is male his testes begin their descent to the scrotum.
• Primitive sperm have formed and he is producing testosterone.