Baby at 6 weeks

Baby at 6 weeks WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH YOUR BABY Your baby's length is now about 3 to 5 millimeters -- about the size of a peppercorn! The brain is forming three separate parts: the forebrain (memory and reasoning), the midbrain (translates messages from the brain to organs and limbs) and the hindbrain (regulates breathing and muscle movement). At this point the embryo is now three-dimensional and completely enclosed in the amniotic sac. Your baby's heart is now beating and blood circulation is evident. The kidneys and liver are growing fast, and the neural tube, which connects the brain with the spinal cord, closes. The placenta is rapidly developing, however, it will not take over hormone production until about week 12. What absolute and complete miracles babies are! You Were Created This Way! 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Camping with a Grand AM!

Camping with a Grand AM

We've had our car, a 2004 Pontiac Grand AM for about a year now, and I haven't missed our minivan yet, until we tried to go camping recently. We got the kids to get all of the camping gear together so we could throw it all in the car leave town. As soon as I got home from work, we brought all the stuff and laid it out on the driveway behind the car. Instantly, I knew we were in trouble. I looked in my tiny little trunk and then at all the stuff on our driveway and knew there was no way it was all going in there.

I stuck all the sleeping bags, pillows, and other soft stuff in the back seat with the girls, then I started on the trunk. After loading the campstove, the tents, and other gear, I had aproximately 11 cubic inches left to work with. It was time for a grave ultimatum.

I assembled the whole family on the driveway, and sadly said, "We have a choice to make, Clothes or Food. You're either going to go hungry or naked, because we can't fit both."

Now I'm guessing you're wondering what they chose...

Well let's just say the flame roasted salmon and garlic butter potatoes were terrific! For some reason our campsite was the most popular one there, with no shortage of visitors. Oh yeah, I'm also really glad we managed to fit in bugspray and sunscreen!

Kendal

It's Raining Babies!

Babie's Everywhere!

It is babies everywhere in the Jones house at the moment....

You wouldn't believe it....

I am prego,

My girlfriend Krystal just had her baby....

His name is Ethan, and he was a lumberjack when he was born...

9 something right off the bat....

AND...

My daughter, Krystal is also pregnant.....

Most of you probably know this by now...

and for those of you who didn't?

Well.....SURPRISE......

We phoned her a couple of weeks ago to tell her our good news.....

and instead we were the ones who got the surprise....

She is five months along...and looks pretty good, although a little tired.

Baby looks like a basketball underneath her shirt....

and she has quit smoking!

I am going to be a grandma before I am a mommy again...

and as if that isn't funny enough...Kendal will be a grandpa before he is ever a dad the first time round....

We just can't do anything in an orderly fashion in our family!

Next month she will be finding out the baby's sex....

so there will be more news then..

It is raining babies!

It's A Boy!

It's A...........

Boy!

Krystal is having a baby boy! I went with her to the ultrasound this morning and I got to see him moving around inside mommy! It was way cool!

I actually saw the "boy parts" before the technician said anything! Ultra sounds are sooo much better then they were thirteen years ago....

Krystal was dissapointed to not be able to use her girl's name...(Amira Danae) - Danae after Bree....

so now she is off to the name library to try to find a boys name!

However, she is excited to be having a son!

Every time she saw babies face she said.."Awwwww!"

Baby was being difficult however, and would not present his best face for a proper ultrasound picture, but the tech managed to at least get a side profile.

It was very cool, and also makes me excited to find out. However, I have a long ways to go to the ultrasound where they actually tell you what you are having....

(Krystal said she hopes I have one of each.... )

I am excited.

Love Robyn!

Surprise!

WE DID IT!!!!! Yaaaa!

WE'RE PREGNANT!

It took us 5 months...since we started trying at Christmas.....

I really couldn't believe it, so I had to take 5 HPTs and 2 blood tests before I would believe it....

Yeah...that makes sense....Why would I be pregnant when we were trying....

My first betas were 103 on DPO 13....

I hear that is good. I had my betas done again on DPO 23, but I don't find out the results of that until my doctors apointment tomorrow....

We were not going to tell anyone until I was 3 months along...but that didn't work too well for 2 reasons...

First..My belly has popped and people were starting to look at me a little strange at work...

and secondly Kendal and the girls have been telling everyone they know......(I think maybe they are a little excited!)

I had people I barely knew coming up to me on Sunday morning and saying "I hear that congrats are in order!"

So far I feel really good....

I have been really tired the last four days, and can't get near a chair or bed without passing out on it...including in church last night...

and I have had some low grade nausea off and on, but barely noticeable..just annoying...

So there it is People.....

BABY JONES WILL BE HERE FEB 14TH

How cool is that for a birthday....

Love Robyn!

Cloudy Thursday

Cloudy Thursday!

The title may sound depressing, but really being cloudy is a wonderful thing for me. The best thing really!

I haven't been handling the heat so well lately, and the fact that it is cloudy....also means that it is cool...

I am very happy with this.

Plus....I got to go for lunch with my hubby today, which hasn't happened much recently as he has been working way way too many hours......They are short staffed.....one guy went nuts and quit...and the other one got fired cause he stinks. (I mean both of those literally) That means that Kendal is pulling major overtime...(but not getting paid for it as he is on salary)

but today he got off because he has to go and see a surgeon about getting his wisdom teeth removed....

I am a little discouraged...it will cost $860.00

We will get reimbursed for most of it probably from Manulife, but first we have to pay for it and wait for the money to come back.

That part sucks.

However, I am glad that he had the day off. We went to a place called Brewsters cause we had a two for one coupon....and we are cheap.....

We had something called a chicken twister wrap. Yummy.

We don't have many plans for the weekend yet, but then we never do...and somehow they seem to disappear....

Saturday Kendal has to run sound for a wedding, and then Sunday after church we are meeting our friends Shawna and Jason out at Katepwa Lake. I am going to find shorts if it kills me and I am going to get wet.

They are back from Surrey now, and temporarily staying with Ja's mom in Katepwa till Ja finds a job....

By the way....good luck with your interview today Ja.....I know that you will get the job!

Hope everyone is having a good week! I will be back with an update tomorrow about Krystal's ultrasound!

Love Robyn!

Baby:

We have elbows! Your baby is now approximately 13-17 mm crown to rump length, or about 0.51 - 0.66 inches. S/he also weighs in at 1 gram! Toe rays are present as the toes begin to form. Gonads have become testes (for boys) or ovaries (for girls). Baby will move away if touched through the uterine wall. In both shape and size, it resembles a peapod and weighs less than a tenth of an ounce / 2 grams. The eyelids are fused and won't open until week 27. The wrists are more developed, ankles have formed, and the fingers and toes are clearly visible. Arms are growing longer and bend at the elbows. By week's end, the inner workings of the ears are complete. Though you can't yet identify the sex of the fetus by ultrasound, its genitals have begun to form. By now the placenta has developed enough to support most of the critical job of producing hormones. WOW! It's hard to believe that I am already 9.5 weeks into the job! Everything is going good so far...other then the fact that everyone is teasing me about twins as I am measuring very large for 9 weeks..... I am already in some maternity clothes. I wasn't thinking I would need those yet, so thank God for value village and a friend who just had a baby. My morning sickness has eased, and I am feeling lots better as far as that gos...I am still getting it, but no where near as bad... The worst part of everything is that I am STARVING all the time...I hope that eases up soon...especially since food doesn't really appeal to me to much right now... I am also having difficulty sleeping at night...I toss and turn all night and then get up two or three times to visit the little girls room.....Oh the joys..... My energy is better though.... I actually went for an hour walk last night around Wascana. It was really nice and windy out after the horrible hot spell we have had here lately. It was so nice that we ate out there too. Kentucky Fried Chicken. So much for any health benifits from the walk..... I did receive some sad news yesterday though. One of Kendal's cousins was pregnant and due at aproximatly the same time as me, and she miscarried this week.... I am going to trust God though that everything will be OK with us. The girls are very excited. Krystal is feeling well. She finally met her OB and he says that mother and baby are both healthy and doing great! She looks really tired though, and she is complaining about the hungry all the time thing too. She is still working two jobs, and will continue to do so for a while yet..... This Friday she will be finding out the sex of baby, so when I know more I will post! Love Robyn!

Weekend May 26-28th

Yay! It's the weekend again!

I don't really know why I get quite so excited....they pass by so quickly...but there you go!

It was the Cathedral Arts Festival on Sat.

We have gone every year since we have lived here!

There is a lot of free entertainment...and good food.....and stuff to buy....and lots of people to watch if you are into that.....(we are....)

Unfortunatly, it seems the weather is always against us! For three years straight, it has been cold and wet, and this year was no exception....

The one year it was hot....it was so hot that we all got sick!

However we went and we had fun anyways....

There were all kinds of booths with different things for sale....and buskers out to make a buck or two...

We ate East Indian food and watched some guys eating fire...talk about indigestion....

I think it took us about 4 hours to go through all the booths...and then the cold was too much for us, and we headed home....

but it was fun anyways....

and rain or shine, we will probably do it again next year!

Later around 6 PM, we headed off to the movies with a bunch of friends....

We went to see X-men 3!

I highly highly recommend it!

However, you should probably watch one and two first....(LOL)

We went back to Scott and Corie's afterwards and watched X-Men 2...

Maybe this weekend...we will watch the first one!

Sunday morning was church as usual....except that in the middle of the service my friend Brenda called...

They were stuck at Superstore with a dead battery....

So i took pity and rescued them in the midst of their plight....

I got to see my Mercy Buckets too!

Every time i see her she is bigger and cuter....

Sunday night we went to a dessert night at our church, in support of our friends Mike and Lynne who were here for Bible School, but are done and are now going back to Surrey to work in their Metro Kids ministry.

and then went over to Paul and Tammy's and blasted the crap out of everything on x-box!

Actually everyone else blasted stuff.

I died.

Miserably...

Over and over again.

That was our weekend.....

and now it is back to work.....

Hope your all having a good week!

Love Robyn!

Hayy,

My last couple of weeks since I last wrote have been pretty hard not only for me but for my family. We have just recently lost our uncle Jermey who we all loved very much. When I first found this out I didint even know what to say or do at first i didnt even cry i just went down stairs and watched tv as though nothing had happened but later i had relized that i had lost one of the closest people in my life the only thing that i was very happy about was that he was in a better place and that he no longer had to live in pain and knowing he was very soon going to die. And also i am happy that he knew god so one of these days i can see him again. But that is now passing over us but still we wont forget about him ever.Well other than that I have been pretty good I love our church and the friends I have there and I am Grauating this year from Grade 8 which I am also very happy about because i get to get dressed up all pretty... and I really want sing at the grad so if you could all pray that i win those try outs to sing O canada that would be great Oh yeah it was also just recently mothers day and my sister brandys birthday on the same day so i wish you guys a HaPpY BeLatEd BiRtHdAy aNd MoThErS DaY!!!! Love you guys lots but i think that i am going to take off buh bye!!

Love Bree Bear