Alex and Nate

What are little boys, made of?
Frogs and snails,
And puppy dog tails,
That's what little boys, are made of.


Week 23

Your baby is positively HUGE, a whopping 1.1 pound (or almost at least!). That is quite an accomplishment for someone that used to weigh less than one ounce. Your baby at 23 weeks is the size of a small baby doll you might purchase for a little girl.Your little one is now about 11 inches long! Your baby is still making remarkable changes at 23 weeks pregnant. His skin is still quite red and heavily wrinkled. Your baby can hear loud noises in the womb from now and as you continue your pregnancy week by week, so don't be surprised if your baby seems to move around a bit when you are vacuuming or are in an environment where loud noises are quite common. Every day your baby stays in the womb increases their survival rate by approximately 3 percent during weeks 23 and 26.

I can feel the babies moving and kicking now, the doctor says they are very active boys! They are one and a quarter pound each! Exactly the same weights and doing really good. And they have names:

Alexander and Nathan!

Alex is great for the doctors, his sonogram pictures are always perfect. He says at my right hip almost all the time- Alex at 23 weeks:



Nathan is all over the place, he never stays still for the sonogram pictures and is generally misbehaving :) One time he had his feet in Alex's face kicking. This is Nate's 23 week picture:









They assure me that he is in fact human and not a demon baby...


Now that they have names I want everything they own to be personalized. Here are their little sippy cups:

Crystal gave a a baby blanket- when there was one baby! I got a second one (after searching 4 targets) and sewed on their names for them: