33 weeks and 39 1/2 inches

From 1-24-09 Due Date

So Jeremy thinks that I didn't measure correctly last week, that is why I was 32 weeks and 38 inches around, so this week he measured me and I am 33 weeks and 39 1/2 inches around.

Babycenter says "This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood."


Most of you have probably heard of a website called Facebook. Well, since not everyone is a part of it, I wanted to include Jeremy's "status" updates that he has written these past few months about Baby Long's arrival. I would say he is definitely an excited Dad-to-be:

8/20/08 Jeremy is excited that after Michelle's big ultrasound today... we're having a human (there was some question that it could be a squash or ET)!!!

8/08 Jeremy spent the day looking for baby furniture with Michelle.

9/22/08 Jeremy is wondering what his & Michelle's baby is going to look like.

9/28/08 Jeremy is staring at his wife's pregnant belly and lovin' it!

10/20/08 Jeremy is trying to figure out why they can't make baby furniture that doesn't require hands the size of a 3 year old & the strength of an ox to put together?

11/17/08 Jeremy had fun with his niece Molly this weekend and his other niece Tate tonight. Can't wait to have my own little buddy to play with in a few months!

1/8/09 Jeremy is excited that the doctor said the baby may come 1 1/2 weeks early!!!

1/15/09 Jeremy just enjoyed some tasty chocolate chip cookies with Michelle while waitin' for that baby to pop out. Giddy up cowboy... or cowgirl!

1/17/09 Jeremy and Michelle are going to kick our doctor in the crotch if that baby doesn't pop out today after getting us all fired up that "it will be here before Sunday"!

1/18/09 Jeremy Long had fun playing games today. Took our mind off wondering when "the kid" will get here. It can't stay in there forever... or could it?