LEMONADE!

How to make a make-up salon in two easy steps, by Julia, who woke up on a Sunday morning with this idea. 

Step 1. Make a sign that says "Kate's Make up Salon" and tape it to the front door; set up all make-up in inviting fashion in your room. Tape sign to front door.

Step 2. Await customers; when no customers appear within reasonable time frame, pivot...pivot immediately!

How to make a Lemonade Stand in a few easy steps, by Julia.

Step 1. Make a sign:

Step 2. Get an eager employee/customer:

 Step 3. Ask Mommy to buy ingredients at the grocery store.

Step 4. Load up picnic basket with supplies and go to a place where thirsty people will be sure to be: Yaya and Baba's house.

Step 5. Set up shop.

Step 6. Smile, and watch the customers come flooding right in:

Step 7. Reuse cups with out washing them, don't wash your hands, redistribute money to future customers so they can buy some lemonade, drink a lot of your own product.

Step 8. HAVE FUN!

Julia, you have the best ideas and the best enthusiasm. You are a little entrepreneur... and a lady with a PLAN. You're a DOER...you get stuff done...and make people happy...and with you, lemonade or not...Life is so so SWEET!

Check it out in real live action!

Big Baby

So, here we are at week 14. You missed this week's you-to-fruit comparison, didn't you? Well, fret not. In week 14, you are approximately the size of a Lemon!

How cool is that? You know, your Mom LOVES lemons! She ate so many of them when she was a kid that she wore down the enamel on her teeth and, consequently, they didn't glow in black lights. But, that's all been fixed now. Yay for modern dentistry!

Some cool things in your development this week:

• You are "making urine"- that sounds just like your dear old Dad. I make urine quite frequently.
  
• You are breathing amniotic fluid. Okay, so that sounds a bit amphibious. But, eventually you'll breathe good old air.
  
• Your liver, kidneys and spleen are developing like crazy! You'll need all of those, fer sure!

And, this one's pretty cool. You are growing thin, downy, feathery hair all over your body for warmth. I know you may be worried that you'll look like me after I got my head shaved or Uncle Jeremy or some kind of Wookie, but don't worry.

This hair growth, called Lanugo, is only gonna stick around while you're in the womb. It's cold in there, apparently! They have some high tech images of what this Lanugo looks like:

See, you look more like Mark Twain than a Wookie. But, you're definitely in a part-mammal, part-amphibian stage in your life. Which means you could, theortically, star in Waterworld 2. (Don't worry, these jokes will be hilarious later in life).

But, the most interesting thing, to me, is that, apparently, you're above average already! The Bump says that at week 14, on average, the baby is 3.4 inches long.

A week ago yesterday, you clocked in at 4.o inches long, from rump to head! That makes you significantly larger than the average-sized baby! Almost 1/3 bigger than the average!

This revelation was greeted with a humorous exhange between your mother and I (very intelligently debating the difference in our respective sizes):

Aaron: "Our baby is way longer than the average length. The Bump says that at week 14, on average, the baby is 3.4 inches long. But our baby measured 4 inches long. LAST WEEK!"

Holly: "Really?"

Aaron: "Yeah, look at me!"

Holly: "Are we gonna have a big baby?"

Aaron: "Yeah, look at me!"

Holly: "Yeah, but look at me!"

Aaron: "So, look at me!"

Holly: "Yeah, but look at me!"

This went on ad nauseum until our batteries wore out. We haven't gotten any stats on percentiles or anything like that, yet. But, if this lemon information is any good, you might be a big baby!

Whether you'll be big or not, I still can't get over how much you've grown from the first time we saw you! You're a little person in there now; at first glance you were just a smudge with a heartbeat!