Your baby’s growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week. Since she’s almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), that makes for a pretty lean figure, but her body’s filling out proportionally. Your baby’s brain is growing rapidly, and her taste buds may be working now. Her lungs are developing “branches” of the respiratory “tree” and cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily. Your baby can hear more now, and you may even notice her startle at loud, sudden noises. But she’s probably getting used to the regular noises she hears around the house, such as your dog barking or the roar of a vacuum cleaner.

ETA: Roar of a vacuum cleaner? Not so much a regular noise in this house. Although I did vacuum the rug Saturday. But only because it reeeeeallly needed it.

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Here’s Donna with her baby bulge at 24 weeks. The good news is her belly button hasn’t popped out yet. She’s happy about that.

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Been a while since I’ve opened up a mac to swap hardware. Piece of cake still. :)

Dropping in a new 250gb hard drive into my Macbook Pro.

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Neighboor left my box on the porch. They’re not *that* crazy I guess :)

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So I placed an order online at Apple.com for some new software, and accidentally put a 0 instead of a 9 in the street address. So FedEx ended up delivering the package to a neighbor’s house. Normally, this isn’t a big deal. What has me weirded out is that this package required a signature, and this neighbor decided to forge my name & signature to accept the package.

I went over there last night when I discovered the tracking number showing the box as delivered, but nobody was home (or they were hiding with all the lights off). So I left note asking if they’d drop it off at my door today. We’ll see this afternoon.

Sucky part, Part 2 of the shipment is about to go out and I can’t change the shipping address. Luckily tomorrow is my off-friday, so I’ll have to camp out for the FedEx truck so I can get my stuff.

Who knows, maybe they signed for it and was going to try and find me (we’ve never met this particular neighboor. Hell, we’ve never any of them besides across the street and next door).

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Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound. He may be able to feel your movements now, so put on some tunes and dance around the house. No matter what race your baby is, he looks red now due to blood vessels showing through his transparent skin. His true skin tone will develop over the course of his first year. Blood vessels in your baby’s lungs are developing to prepare him for breathing, but complete lung development will take many more months. The lungs are the last organ to fully develop.

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