Hot Chocolate and Fighter Jets

We all have one thing or another that gets us going. For some it's a smell an image or a song. For others is a loved one, a Red Bull or sugar filled treat. For Baby Peanut here at week 18...it's hot chocolate and fighter jets.

Over the past few weeks Amber has seen a trend while enjoying her afternoon cup of hot chocolate. Baby Peanut awakens with fists, legs and who knows what else thumping around inside of her belly. Not many other treats or drinks seem to get peanut going like a good cup of hot chocolate, but there are a few theories on why.

One is that the trace amount of caffeine in the hot chocolate gets the baby up and roaming. Another theory is that the heat of the warm drink is felt by the baby causing it to either get closer to or further from the stomach. In either case...Peanut is on the move.

Oh yeah. There was one other outside stimulant, well more like an experience that Amber noticed really riled up Baby Peanut. An F-16 fighter jet screaming by at over 500mph.

On Saturday, August 22nd Amber and Baby Peanut took in their first Air Show. All kinds of cool things to experience, but nothing cooler than the aerial display of the F-16 in full combat form.

From slow and low to high speed passes in full afterburner, the fighter jet stole the show. Baby Peanut was very impressed and from the first pass (shown here) the little one was doing flips, rolls and loops all on his/her own. Let's just hope this infatuation with jets continues on forever!

Back to the baby developments from BabyCenter.com.

"Head to rump, your baby is approximately 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a bell pepper) and weighs almost 7 ounces. He/she is busy flexing the arms and legs - movements that you'll start noticing more and more in the weeks ahead. If you're having a girl, her uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place. If you're having a boy, his genitals are noticeable now, although he may hide them from you during an ultrasound."

So we're two weeks out from our next ulrasound and can't wait! This is the big one as we'll find out if we're getting the Jungle Babies decor for Nikko Christian's room or the Sugar Plums for Ava Grace. Either way I've got two weeks before it's furniture assembly time.

Any volunteers?