14 Weeks

  The countdown begins! 16 more days until we find out if baby Schachle is a boy or a girl! We are super excited and can hardly wait. We took another belly picture on Sunday. It’s been 3 weeks since our last picture and you can defiantly tell this little baby is growing! 

How your baby's growing at 14 weeks:

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

I don’t think Gabe has any idea he’s going to be a Big Brother in just a few short months. He is such a lover and wants to be the center of attention all the time. It will be an adjustment for him, but I think he is going to be the best doggie big brother ever! Here is a picture of Gabe announcing his news!

This weekend was the Dixie Deer Classic.  Robert entered one of the deer he killed this fall and won an award for the number 1 non typical deer killed with the gun. Below is a picture of Robert, Jake, and Zach with the famous deer of the season. Congrats to Robert!!