17 Weeks and Kicking like crazy!

Well I'm into my 17th week now and the baby is moving around so much! I can feel flutters here and there and yesterday at the Dr.'s we listened on the fetal monitor as the baby swooshed all around in my belly and kicked. Hearing the movement is pretty amazing and I can't wait to see it on our ultrasound, only 13 more days to go until we can see Baby Duggan again!

Here's the 17 week update, and keep in mind they refer to the baby as a he but we still don't know if the baby has a twig and berries yet! Enjoy...
Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and he's around 5 inches long. The umbilical cord, his lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker. His sense of hearing is also developing. Your baby can move his joints, and his skeleton — until now, rubbery cartilage — is starting to harden into bone. Some of it will remain cartilage for years after he's born. A newborn's skeleton has 300 parts (a combination of bone and cartilage). As your child grows, some of these parts harden and fuse together. By the time your baby reaches adulthood, he'll have just 206 bones.
Wow, I never get tired of reading about what's going on in my belly, it's pretty amazing! In other news, we awoke to lots of snow this morning and a real winter wonderland outdoors. Kevin took some lovely pictures.

Last night while it was snowing...
A view of the front walkway and the neighbor's house...

This is a great photo of the snow and ice forming an extension to the barns roof...
Last night I baked some goodies for a weekly meeting we have at work. Each week someone brings something so I decided to make Banana Bread and a Chocolate Orange Ricotta Bread that my colleague Heather made and said was delicious. Both turned out great! I make a lot of Banana Bread and this has to be one of my favorite recipes yet. I know Chocolate Orange Ricotta bread sounds a little scary, I was definitely skeptical, but it was AMAZING!
Click for the yummy recipes for Banana Bread and the Chocolate-Orange Bread!
Here are the finished products... I used Cadbury dark chocolate, my favorite!
And the Banana Bread...