Secondi

The Koorn family took the show on the road last week, and visited all three sets of parents plus extended family in Indiana (including my 100-year-old Grandma Elsie, in the pic above). We had a great time watching Freja show off all of her best tricks, and letting everyone get in lots of QT with her.

A few people asked me when am I going to start blogging about baby #2, which made me realize just how remiss I have been in keeping up with baby updates here on the blog. As you can imagine I don't have quite as much free time this time around, as I did when I was pregnant with Freja! That said, we are super excited about the new addition coming in March, and I will do my best to keep the blog current with updates about both babies.

Jan & I have been calling this baby "Secondi," as in second, in the tradition of calling Freja "Primo" when she was still in the womb. (They are Italian terms you might see on a menu referring to different courses.) Of course now that we know #2 is a girl we're trying to find just the right name for her - not easy after setting the bar so high with Freja Maxine!

And now your weekly baby update, at 18 weeks:
Head to rump, your baby is about 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a bell pepper) and she weighs almost 7 ounces. She's busy flexing his arms and legs — movements that you'll start noticing more and more in the weeks ahead. Her blood vessels are visible through his thin skin, and her ears are now in their final position, although they're still standing out from her head a bit. A protective covering of myelin is beginning to form around her nerves, a process that will continue for a year after she's born. If you're having a girl, her uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place.