He's Full-Term Today!

OK, so all things being equal, today Katy would have been 37 weeks along, which would have been officially considered full-term. Today is the date at which we are now supposed to draw comparisons for Zac's progress on things as he develops. For example, though he is 6 weeks old today, in developmental terms, he's just a brand new baby. For example, if a regular, full-term baby begins raising their had and chest while on their tummy at three months (I think this is too long, but that's what a developmental chart I found on WebMD mentions), then we are supposed to be patient if Zac doesn't do that until he's about 6 weeks older.

Now, that's likely a bad example because we give Zac tummy time and he can already raise his head very well and almost his chest. In fact, yesterday he turned himself completely over on his back after starting on his tummy, and he moves himself forward on his blanket if we put him on his tummy. So let's use another example from that chart. According to averages, most children sit without support and crawl by 9 months, give or take a few weeks. If Zac takes 10 1/2 or 11 months to do this, that'd be something the doctors say we should expect. Since he's been so aggressive in picking things up to this point, I'll be shocked if he is slower to do anything than a normal child, but it's interesting to kind of watch things and see if he matches up with a slower pace like they said or if he tracks just like any other full-term baby would.

Zac had his first visit to Dr. Ogden yesterday, the same doctor who Katy has had since she was a child. Zac is now 20 inches long and weighs 6 lbs, 12 oz. Wow!

A few new things today. I've added a second slideshow which has pics of Claire, Katy and me here and there and I'll continue to add to that. There are some from our vacation last summer to South Dakota taken at Sylvan Lake in this bunch. If any of you have seen the second National Treasure movie, part of it was shot at that lake (though they attempt to make it look like they're really just on the back side of Mount Rushmore). It's a very pretty place. This slideshow is presently at the bottom of the page because I'm having trouble convincing the system to let me place a second web album over on the right side. Also, if you have a Windows add-on that lets you place widgets on your desktop, you can now add our blog as one of those. That link is on the right side of this page.


Also, today I wanted to add in a picture of the cake from the reception we held at Katy's mom and dad's the week after our wedding in 2006. I added this in because just last night we began eating that cake topper. We were fortunate to get two cake toppers when we married, one for the wedding in South Dakota, which my family ordered for us and one for our reception here in Nebraska. We already went through the one my family gave us, and since this past week was the second anniversary of when we first met, we thought it'd be a good time to pull out the second cake. I can tell you that, in fact, the cakes both tasted just as fresh as they first did. It amazes me that can be the case.