19 weeks!!!

We are just one week away from being at the half-way mark. Todd and I decided to start documenting the belly growth starting next week, so there will be embarassing photos to come.

According to our weekly "How your baby's growing" emails:

Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom about the size of a large heirloom tomato (shown below next to a quarter). His/Her arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of her body now. His/Her kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on his/her scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on his/her skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.

Yummy. Tomato, Vernix Caseosa and Pickling.