Howdy and welcome to Week 17.

Elyla is now the size of an onion, so we’re definitely veering off from the fruit department now. I am wondering if now that we’ve got vegetables, we’ll move to meats soon.

I’m sure a small ham would work in a few weeks.

Onions are a bit like avacados for me in the fact that I really don’t like them. However, they do DIFFER in that they can be served on pizza or as RINGS, which aren’t too shabby.

So this week the little kid is finally hardening its skeleton, which up until now I guess has been pretty flabby. It’s also growing some fat around its bones and cartilage, so more and more it’s starting to look like his/her father.

Lastly this week, the baby can no longer run from the law because it has tiny little fingerprints! I can’t believe how early they form, but I guess that’s how they get ya.

Mom is doing good, seems like the headaches and stuff have passed.

We’re headed to San Diego on Friday to visit some family, so that should be a fun drive. Only 70 degrees there compared to 115 here!

Until next week!

I don’t like guacamole. Not a single bit. It looks gross, it tastes gross and I can’t even bring myself to SMELL it.

But this week, our little Elyla is the side of an avacado and…well…I just keep praying next Tuesday gets here to we get put this week behind us and hopefully move on to a better fruit/vegatable.

Jina of course loves the stuff, so I’m sure she’s happy about it, but I’m looking forward to maybe a mango next week! Who knows?!!?

There is also another development in the Elyla’s changing body: She’s growing little bones in her ears, and should now be able to hear VOICES and stuff!

This poses some problems for me, especially since Jina gets to spend more time with her than I do, for obvious reasons. And to top it off, I’m out of town right now, so I have a lot of DE-PROGRAMMING to do when I get home.

Stuff like “Hey Elyla, just so you know, House Hunters isn’t the only show on TV“, or “You ignore what mommy says about us never needing a bigger TV” and “Let me tell you about the time many YEARS ago when your mommy used to stay up past 9pm” and other important details.

But the big thing I may tell the baby tomorrow night is how awesome it’s been being married to her mommy for the last 10 years, because June 19th is our big milestone anniversary!

We celebrated it last year, so we’re keeping it low-key this weekend - just a dinner, maybe a movie and some good, quality time spent together - but it doesn’t diminish the fact that 10 years is a HUGE deal to us and we’re so very proud that we’ve grown only closer the entire time.

It’s strange how you feel you know someone (including yourself), and then 10 years later, you look back and realize how childish you both were, and how the decisions you made at the time seemed to be done by another person.

I’ve now been in a relationship with Jina for over a third of my life, which is amazing when you think about it.

Well, here’s to 10 more years, this time with an added person thrown into the mix!

That’s right, I used a knock-knock joke to title this blog. I don’t expect anyone to forgive me for it, but I’ll get over the slip-up eventually.

So here we are, it’s Week 15 and our little baby is the size of a Naval Orange. I really do love oranges, but my favorites lately are those little Calfornia Clementines, or California Cuties, which are the little tangerines that taste so very delicious.

The baby this week finally has longer legs than arms, and apparently all his joints are functioning properly.

Elyla is also said to be squirming around like an orange with a life of it’s own, but Jina still wont be able to feel it.

I have to say, the day that happens…the day Jina feels it kick, and then I do…kind of freaks me out. But in a good way.

We’ve got about six weeks left until we find out if it’s an Eli or a Lyla, but it just can’t come quick enough.

Jina is doing great, although still having some issues with headaches. But her energy seems to be slowly on the rise.

On a side note, next Thursday, June 19th, is our 10th wedding anniversary. I think some people find it hard to believe we’ve been married that long, and I’m one of them.

10 years??? Amazing…that’s such a long time, and it doens’t even feel that long. More like 20.

I kid.

We celebrated the whole thing last year with our trip to San Francisco and Sausalito (pictures here). We figured we might be pregnant about now and it would be much better to enjoy the 10th anniversary a year early.

Seems like it worked out pretty well.

I’m going to disagree with that quote above just for now I think.

Because little Elyla is the size of a lemon today, and while lemonade is truly delicious, I really can’t see me doing anything with that yellow fruit besides writing about it.

And honestly, a little baby the size of a lemon is NOT a bad thing.

The weird part is…last week Elyla was the size of a peach, and if you had asked me the question “Which is bigger? A peach or a lemon?” I’d have answered “peach.”

But apparently, a lemon is bigger in the pregnancy growth chart, so we’ll go with that.

Now, I am not a huge fan of lemons really. I mean, I can’t remember the last time we had one in the house other than to cut it up, and drop it down the running garbage disposal to make it smell all fresh and nice.

However, there is one lemon I am a huge fan of, and that of course is Liz Lemon.

If you never watch 30 Rock, then you have no idea what I’m talking about, but Liz Lemon is on it and played by the amazing Tina Fey. She created the show, she writes the show and she’s a friggin’ riot. In fact, it’s my #1 ranked comedy on TV right now.

Take that Office!

So our handy dandy baby guide also tells us that our kid is starting to suck his thumb this week, which is pretty great. If it’s a boy, I’m sure he’s already learning his daddy’s bad habit of chewing on his fingernails.

He’s also wiggling his toes, breathing amniotic fluid, growing some thin, downy hair over his body to stay warm…and oh yeah, starting to make urine.

I’m really not sure how I’d feel about carrying a kid around inside me who is using my uterus as its own swimming pool.

Jina is doing okay, but had a major headache that lasted almost all weekend. We started looking stuff up on the internet on Saturday on how to find relief and ended up trying some Peppermint Oil that you inhale, which is supposed to help out a bit. It did…somewhat.

But some water-soaked, microwaved towels on the face were the ticket. We gave that a shot late Saturday evening and it seemed to work.

We visited our new OB last Thursday and we really liked the place. They are also moving in two months WAY closer and right next to the hospital we want to give birth at, so that’s a big plus.

We’re at Week 14 now and should find out the sex at our appointment during Week 21. I’m starting to get REALLY excited for that day and impatient. It’s high time we get the verdict on Eli or Lyla.