Right now you're about 24 weeks pregnant and your baby is as long as an ear of corn.

24 weeks o' baby.

I had class last night and all my buddies are CONVINCED I'm having a boy. Sounds good. I haven't seen these birds in a few weeks so it was nice to catch up but it also reminded me of how boring and symptomless my pregnancy is. I know, I know. I'm one of the lucky ones. I didn't have my head stuck in the toilet for the first ten weeks, I didn't have a crazy sense of smell, I'm not having cravings. Nothing. Nothing at all. I'm one of those people who wants the full experience though...if I'm supposed to have cravings- I WANT THEM! I want to be able to eat a whole pizza because "I can't live without it!!!" Nothing. I'm a little disappointed but I'm sure there will be plenty of times when I get my money's worth.

I had a stern talking to with Fancy this morning. I reminded him/her that although I'm very glad that s/he is quietly enjoying his/her time inutero to make sure s/he gets in line for brains, muscles and common sense. No one likes a dummy. His/her father and I have a VERY keen sense of humor so I'm pretty sure we'll be able to take care of that...but I don't want Sleepy Head to miss out on the important stuff.

Fancy shocked Todd last night. S/he's pretty active from 9 until about 11 and I was feeling some kicks to I put Todd's hand on my belly and s/he KICK REAL hard- he jumped. You could tell he had his first proud dad moment. It was cute- now he's been calling him/her Pele all day.

I had some frosted mini-wheats for breakfast this morning. Not sure why Madge didn't buy them growing up. Bananas and cold milk with cereal is always good. I'm bruising very easily these days (which I hear is a side effect of adding fish oil to yer diet and to fix it you have to ingest more iron- a pregnant lady needs 27 mg/day- and to help with the absorption of thaaat, you have to ingest more vitamin C.) Frosted Mini Wheat has 90% of a normal person's DV of iron. It has zero Vitamin C.

So I was talking with Madge yesterday for my daily Gram update- and it turns out when she fainted and fell two weeks ago because her ticker wasn't working, she broke two ribs. I've broken a rib once (from coughing when I had pneumonia) and it's awful. And ya know what the treatment is? Nothing. Not a damn thing you can do. Gram is a tough cookie.