And the growing continues...

Well, we have made it through another four weeks and we are just three days shy of the beginning of the third trimester... my how time flies! Baby boy Rodes now has a name... Graycin James! There is no significance to the name Graycin other than we just like it, as for James, both Zeb and I have some pretty important and influential men in our lives that we would like Mr. Graycin to share his name with.

If you remember from last time, we were do for another ultrasound at our visit today. We were double checking the size of Graycin's kidneys. Last time, they measured at 5mm and 6mm... this seems SO tiny, but when you consider that they are really only grow to 1-2 cm those numbers were a little high. This time, his kidneys are down to 4mm and 5mm which means that they have begun to filter and process fluid like they should! Good news!!

Since we were there, we HAD to get new pictures and it was amazing to see how much he has grown and begun to look like a little person.

The first couple of pictures are of Graycin's face. He decided to look at the ultrasound wand the entire time so we got some good pictures of his face... if you can figure out what you are looking at! You might have to tilt your head to the right to see his face! His head is tilted to the side, so the black circle at the top is his eye socket, you can see the black, empty space above his eyes which is the sinus cavities in his forehead! As you look down and to the left of his eye you can see the lines of his nasal bone as well as the nasal cavities.


You can kind of see where his lips are and then the outline of his chin! It is amazing to us to how much detail there is in a little black and white picture! I think he is going to look like his Daddy! Zeb thinks that he is going look like both of us... who knows, for right now, we think he is pretty stinkin' cute skeleton baby! But then we are a littler partial already!

Graycin played most of the time that the ultrasound tech was showing us his arms and legs. You could see him playing with all the stuff around him and him opening and closing his fist! The picture to the left is him with his hand in front of his face, the one below is his whole left arm... you can see his forearm across the center of the picture and his upper arm in a grayish haze coming from his elbow. The white lines to the right is the vertebrae in his spine and you can see a few ribs right to the right of his elbow. Since he decided to play, we could see his foot and leg fully extended. The picture of his leg shows how much fat and muscle he is starting to get! He's not just all skin and bones anymore!!

Maybe I'm trying to be too descriptive and I should just let you figure out what you see!!

Last, but not least, is his spine.... and since we were in there, we had to make sure he was still a boy! He still took a lot of coercing but he decided to play nice and verify for everyone that he was in fact a little boy.














He is growing quickly! We start week 26 on Saturday, October 9th. We will start going to the doctor every 2 weeks. At this point little man has grown to about a pound and a half and is about 11-13 inches long!