18 Weeks - The Baby is How Big??

5.5 inches.  5.5 inches of another human floating about inside me.  The thought is insane to me.  Just to illustrate this 5 1/2 inches completely, here is an anatomically correct photo...

If you're like me, I saw this and just stared in disbelief.  I am not feeling a lot of movement yet, and I'm not really showing except for a poochy lower stomach, so pregnancy still feels unreal to me at times.  But Baby Cakes is really growing and rocking and rolling.  And speaking of rock and roll, little ears are completely formed and starting to hear the muffled sounds around him or her.  This baby will appreciate the joys of Metallica and Pantera.  

What else is 5.5 inches long?  I grabbed my tape measure and walked around the house, taking photos and finding out what else is the current size of our baby.

Baby Cakes is now the size of:

The mason jar of almonds and cashews that I carry around to fend off nausea and hunger pangs.

An okra picked from our garden last night.  Being a proper southern child, Baby Cakes will learn to love and savor all Southern delicacies, such as fried okra.

A dry erase marker.  I love dry erase boards and keep these around in various colors to leave notes on our fridge or in our dining room.

A bottle of Tums.  That I really hope that I don't need to ever use.  No indigestion or heart burn yet...

The bottle of Purell that Patrick forced me into buying.  I don't like the stuff, thinking germs introduced to the system are healthy... but I suppose with a newborn, we'll need to be careful for the first couple of months.

Two more weeks and we'll get to see our little Baby Cakes in ultrasound form.  We will be posting lots of pictures and maybe a video after August 16th!