30 Week Update

Thirty weeks, technically ten weeks to go until our new baby girl arrives! She is moving and kicking all the time, and her movements are more noticeable than ever. We have rearranged Ruth's room to accommodate baby; however, Ruthie volunteered that the baby could have her bed and she could sleep with us in our big big. Ruthie says these are all the things she will teach her sister: How to swim, yoga, how to take pictures, to be a good girl at the "play place" (child care at our fitness club), and how to play... Mark took this photo of me yesterday on July 4th, 2011. 30 1/2 weeks.

The baby is about 15.7 inches long now, and she weighs almost 3 pounds (like a head of cabbage). A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds her, but that volume will decrease as she gets bigger...