It's hard to believe that it has already been three months.  Here's what's going on this week with Whisler Baby 2009:

Baby Stats:

Size: 2 1/2 inches
Weight: 1/2 ounce

Baby Developments:

Baby's face is looking more human as his eyes have moved to the front of his head and his ears are in place. Hooray! Other amazing fetal highlights this week:

The baby is able to swallow this week and practices on the amniotic fluid he or she floats in. (And you thought baby food was kind of nasty!) And in case you're wondering how a kid can breathe in all that fluid, here's your answer: Fetuses get oxygen from the blood pumped into their bodies by the placenta and don't breathe with their lungs. Mystery solved!

This is kind of gross, albeit fascinating, so feel free to skip ahead: the baby's intestines are well under way, but they aren't all where you'd expect them to be. Instead of all being locked away in the body cavity, some are dangling on the outside, in the umbilical cord. Fantastic.

Fingernails and toenails are forming this week. The chin and nose are also becoming more defined.

Junior has doubled in size over the past two weeks and now weighs almost ½ ounce. He's also now around 2 ½ inches long, about the length of your pinky finger or a Vienna sausage, which, in a few months, will be indistinguishable from one another.

What We're Doing

Laura and I are both planners so we are starting to make preparations to update our wills and create a living trust in the spring.  I also want to set up a 529 investment account for college.  I suppose my surround sound system just lost priority.