Blimey! The Bean is 24-weeks-old today!

The Bean is beginning to train for the the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (hence the use of the word "blimey" in the title; trust me, "blimey" is not part of my regular vocabulary). Do they even let 4-year-olds compete? Based upon her recent movements, she seems to be a strong contender for the floor exercises. Seriously though, I can literally see Tiffany's stomach moving as The Bean practices her routine. It's pretty amazing.

The Bean has probably gained a quarter of a pound and is about the size of decent-sized largemouth bass (about a foot). She'll soon start putting on that adorable baby fat that makes baby cheeks so hard to resist from squeezing. Acccording to Baby Center, "her lungs are developing 'branches' of the respiratory 'tree' and cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily."

So that's it for this week. For all three of our readers, we'll be back next week!

Week 23

The Bean is a big girl now--she is just over 11 inches long and she finally weighs in at 1 pound!! She is also a very active girl--it feels like she's doing somersaults at times. She looks red and wrinkly and the big developmental happening of the week is that the blood vessels in her lungs are developing in preparation for breathing. I've been sick this week with a cold that Adam was kind enough to pass on to me, so the Bean has been getting bounced around with all of my coughing. Here is a picture of the Bean and I hanging out at Niagara Falls a couple of weeks ago--see, I told you she's a big girl.

Bean Counter!

It's a bonus post! Thanks to my (Adam) Aunt Beth, we were pointed to a site where you can actually set up a countdown for your Bean. While it does feature an eerily floating bean in a womb, it's still cool to see how many days until Bean Fest 2007 (The Bean's Birthday). It's over there on the right side of the blog.

Happy Week 22, Bean!

Don't worry, The Bean is still around and so is her blog. We have no excuse other than laziness for not updating the blog lately, but here we go again!

The Bean has now passed the state of being compared to various food products, and is, according to BabyCenter, beginning to look the miniature version of a full-grown newborn! She is probably about 10.9 inches long and weighs almost a pound. Her skin is wrinkled, but will fill out as she puts on more weight. The lanugo (fine hair) is now visible all over her body. Her eyes are fully developed, yet lack the pigment that determines her eye color (which is probably brown since both her parents have brown eyes).

The Mother of The Bean has felt her moving for some time now, but the Father of The Bean can also now feel her movements as well. It's really amazing to think that there is an active Bean inside the mother! Just a few more months until The Bean makes her earthly debut!