As lively as a turnip

So this is the start of week 17. The baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone and the umbilical cord is growing stronger and thicker. Bebe can move joints and is developing sweat glands. Size is still about 5-6 inches and the baby weighs about 5 ounces, about as much as a turnip. Fat is starting to accumulate and weight gain will increase more rapidly from now on.
On my part, I am feeling good still. My body is still looking forward to afternoon naps, but I can skip them if I need to. I am usually ready to head to bed about 9pm, if not earlier. On Saturday morning I was waking up with my hand on my belly and felt a bit of a faint fluttering a few times. I have not been able to repeat it, but it was nice to actually get some movement. John still has not gotten a chance to feel any movement yet.
John has been busy this weekend redoing the outside window frames in our upstairs back room (the white room as we call it). The lower part of the frame had rotted out and was allowing air in on windy days. We thought only the two windows on the north side needed to be done, but walking around outside on the garage roof we saw the west window was actually the worst. The weather has been clear in the low 80's all weekend, so a great chance to have the windows taken out. John has two windows 90% done and should be able to do the last one next weekend. We hope his being able to put in foam insulation will really help the drafts. We may have to take a look at some of the other windows as well!
The dogs got to play with the Triplett kids next door 3 days in a row, so they had fun being outside in the cooler air and sun. I keep telling Jana I need to get our maple tree to get a lot bigger to shade their yard in the afternoon. It has gotten several feet larger, but not enough to cast a good shadow.
We also picked up some paint to freshen the yellow room and to cover up patches from cracks and nail holes. I found that there are many layers of paint over some red wall paper on the bottom and blue wall paper on the top. A lot of blue and turquoise colors, maybe there were more boy babies in there than girl? It was built to be a maids room, so who knows. The Kelly green coming out from under the white trim is one of the weird parts. Hopefully we will be able to work on it throughout the week and get to organizing things soon!