So I was watching the Sister Wives show last night and I guess they are under investigation (it was only a matter of time - they had to know that). They were talking about America having more understanding and needing to not condemn them for their beliefs and way of life, and honestly if they are there of free will and are happy I say let them be, it is not my choice or a way I could live (so don't get any crazy ideas Kris) but if they want it fine, and they don't seem to be forcing the kids into following in that path or abusing them or any of the other weird and horrible stuff we have heard about happening with other families that have come out in the news. Anyway a comment was made about this not being the America they were raised to know and learned about in school (comment in a future episode) and that got me thinking about the America we used to know. While I don't think minds were more open in any way and thus people lived in complete secrecy, I think all of these different lifestyles still went on just mostly unnoticed (because they were secrets I suppose). People just kept to themselves and tried to live their lives. So then I read today how an airplane went into lock down because three men were preforming some ritual on the plane that made the flight crew nervous about their intentions with what they were doing... turns out it was a Jewish prayer ritual and they meant no harm, but I understand the fear with the state of the world today and the events like 9/11 of course. How could it not raise some suspicion and fear. Anyway did people just not do that sort of thing in such a public realm before I mean I am fine with them doing whatever prayers they believe in and I am sure it had to do with praying before the flight and I don't really want a world were people can't be out there and themselves, but sometimes it just isn't the time and place... I don't really know the details of this event but so much of the time now it seems to be a "Hey this is me deal with it" attitude and it turns into such a big ordeal for the whole country.
Okay I got a bit off track there. Not sure why I got on that tangent, but it just seems so crazy these days.
So really this post should be about my being 17 weeks - well I will be starting the 17th week on Wednesday. I still haven't felt our little one, not with certainty that that was it anyway. I imagine it will be soon. This week the baby will be packing on the pounds, so I guess I should be too, well "healthy pounds," I do find that I am starving when I wake up in the morning. Baby is adding fat stores to keep it warm once it is born. It's weight will increase about six times over the next four weeks - I better get back on the cocoa butter to the belly again.
Our baby is also hard at work honing on his or her sucking and swallowing reflexes. The finger- and toenails are beginning to grow from their nail beds already and it weighs nearly 5 ounces and is a little over 5 inches long, about the size of a baked potato.
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