(maria, this is for you)
Here is a blurry picture of my belly at 17 weeks 5 days...I have yet to master taking a photo in the mirror). It looks less big when I am wearing jeans instead of my cloud pajamas. But those pictures are even blurrier.

The baby is doing all sorts of gross stuff inside of me...stay away from websites that do pregnancy week by week unless you like hearing about the baby's bodily functions occuring inside of me. I am pretty grossed out. But on the bright side, the baby's ears are now no longer attached to its neck and should be in the proper orientation. Let's hope that the baby gets Soth ears, and not Lopez Palma ears!
We've have also started receiving some gifts.

The cute onesies you see above came from Tia Claudia. She is nuts. Mick asked me "what's a onesie?", so Claudia is going to come help me raise the baby and Mick will go cuddle with Claudia's husband Albert. Looks like Mick and I are ill-prepared for parenthood! It also looks like I need to learn how to focus with my camera before the baby arrives

My friend Lesley gave us the cute little elephant you see here. She was out in California with her husband Mike on a little mini vacation and we had dinner together on Sunday night. It was fun.
I think that is it for tonight. We find out the sex of the baby next week so stay tuned!