Does God Endorse the Metric System?

Hi all,

Today as I was driving home from my wife's doctor's appointment, I thought of something--I believe that the metric system must be better than the imperial system, in fact, I think it is heavenly endorsed. Here is my rationale: After about 20 weeks, practitioners will measure a woman's fundal height to see "how far along they are." For women that are not overweight and have not popped out too many kids, the fundal height in centimeters (a metric unit) is compatible with number of weeks of pregnancy. For example, at 21 weeks, 5 days, Rebecca measured 22 cm. Today at 25 weeks, 4 days, she measured 26 centimeters. At 30 weeks, we expect that she will measure at 30 centimeters and so on and so....This correlation is well known and doctors/midwives/practitioners actually get a bit concerned if one does not "measure" within 2 cm of one's current date. Therefore, it is obvious to me---if something as awe-inspiring and complicated as growing and forming a human life uses the metric system, then goodbye "slugs", "foot-pounds, "bushels", "pecks", and "pounds" and hello "Newtons", "meters", "pascals", and "kilos".

Now some updating. Rebecca's appointment went well today. The doctor was very pleased with her progress. All of her stats--blood pressure, weight, and FUNDAL HEIGHT were normal and looking good. The baby's heart sounded great----it went something like this: thump, thump, thump, thump, thump....

Ok, we have made some progress on the nursery. We cleared out pretty much everything in the former guest room and moved in some of the baby's stuff. On Friday I put together the crib with the help of Rebecca and Hardy. It is pretty sweet. Take a look:



Other things that come to mind--hmmmm----oh yeah, last week we received the first baby gift from our registry. It is great. The baby will have tons of fun playing with all of its little parts. I bet she will spend hours and hours on it, climbing all around and seeing what kind of noises it makes. Thanks Joe, Heather, McKenna, Kyle, Nick, and Ryan!



Oh, this is not what you sent us??? Well, this is what was in the box when I got my camera---Rebecca is now telling me that this is not a Baby Einstein activity center, but in fact, a siberian husky. I hope that the receipt is inside the box b/c we already have a siberian husky and we do not need a second one.

Well, I think I will go to bed now. Just so you know--as I write this Hardy is having a dream beside me and he growling at something????

So that I can catch up, here are week 24 and 25 pics of Rebecca: