Holidays are Over

Whew! What a whirlwind this year for the holidays. Baby T seemed to enjoy them except had a little snafu after Christmas dinner, where I got sick unexpectedly. It was really my first middle of the day m/s episode.

Baby T made out like a bandit and the scary thing is Baby T isn't even born yet! I have to admit that I also contributed to the presenting of Baby T with R. Sabuda's Winter's Tale book (insanely intricate pop-up book that is too cool/beautiful). I also bought a 'Make a Wish' Foundation ornament from Things Remembered and had our last name engraved on it. My plan is to get Baby T an ornament every year with baby's name on it so s/he will have a bunch of ornaments when they move out of the house...many moons from now. Kind of a legacy or tradition thing I am excited about trying out.

Nana and grandpa T got Baby T LOADS of stuff--3 leap frog toys, inlcuding the drum, a lap-top type thing and a stroller or car seat toy. Baby T also has a beautiful hand-made stocking Nana made that was filled with goodies like a thermometer, outlet covers, orajel, etc. Additionally, they gave Max and I a really nice camcorder so we can make baby movies from Day One. (I have however stipulated that there shall be no cameras--video or otherwise--during the actual birthing process or until baby has been cleaned up and dressed.)

Grandma V got baby 'Pat the Christmas Bunny' (PTB is my favorite baby book!) and bought our travel system with stroller and car seat for baby. We've already put it together and it is very nice:)

After Christmas I bought this really neat Christmas themed scrapbook and I am going to make the insert pages now so each year we can just add some pictures of baby and a little journaling about what s/he got for Christmas and the hot toys that year, etc. I am really excited about this project too!

So baby made out like a bandit! I can only imagine what next year will be like when there actually is a live and out-of-the-womb baby!

December 24

Lumpy pregnant belly. My belly button is so indented that I acutally have a huge belly dimple that makes my belly not totally round. Too weird!

Classes, Family Christmas, Vacation

I just signed up for all the classes we want to take regarding the birthing and care of Baby T. That should keep us busy in February-March--good practice for when we actually have a baby:)

Pasquale opened one of our presents for us last week. He was just too overcome with holiday spirit I guess. It was a book called "On Becoming Baby Wise" which is supposed to be helpful for getting your baby on a schedule and sleeping through the night early on. I am in the philosophy portion of the book and some of it seems hokey but the general ideas are good (I just think the presentation is a bit ostentatious). I was really excited Max's grandma Judy got it for us because I had wanted to check it out and the library copies are all gone. Someone I work with highly recommended it--seems like they are of the Dr Spock mind on a lot of things with a few 'twists' of their own. So thanks Pasquale for being bad!

There were about 45 people at family Christmas, ranging in age from 22 months to 80+ years old. It is always something else! Even though I called and tried to talk to everyone about being pregnant, AND put it on the family website message board, there were still several people who didn't know, including my dad and his family. Oh well, c'est la vie. It went fine except for the akwardness of turning around and finding my dad, my half-brother AND my half-sister all staring at my belly. I need to get a belly shot and post it so you can all see. I still feel like I am in the 'is she or isn't she?' phase--there is definately something going on there but I am not sure people know it is a baby. I hope they don't think I'm just fat. What can you do?

Next week we are off for 10 days in a row. I can hardly wait. I need a break and am especially excited since we can just relax and enjoy the season while only using 3 vacation days. Life doesn't get much better than this, does it?

2nd Ultrasound

Our second ultrasound was yesterday. I am now at 21 weeks and the baby measured in just fine.

My doctor is still very cool. Since we didn't want to know what we were having she didn't look either. She said it is too hard for her to keep quiet so she just doesn't look and that way no one knows. She was with us for about 10 minutes just looking around in there and at one point the baby's arm was up kind of like it was waving and I made a comment--then seconds later the baby moved his/her arm and actually did wave:)

If you can guess all three you win...knowledge! The originals are much crisper on this so if something looks fuzzy we can always show you the print-out version sometime!

6-8 weeks

Usually 6-8 weeks means 8 weeks, right? The baby furniture was ordered about 1.5 weeks ago and it has already arrived! Craziness!! The guy just called and asked if I was ready for it or if we needed them to hold on to it for a while. Considering I wasn't sure we would be ready for it in mid-January I know we aren't ready for it now!

I need to decide if/how we are going to paint and get a move on this I guess!

2nd ultrasound is tomorrow!!!!