Pine+Apple=Kaylin!

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

Not much new this week other than I plan to work on painting the toy box this weekend and next Wednesday we have a meeting with an in-home daycare provider. She has a son that will turn 1 in December so I feel confident she is up on all the new safety protocols for babies and such. We will also be looking at a church based center as well. If those two don't pan out, it's onto the more expensive centers.