Wednesday: water

Tonight I was getting ready for my shower and Flurry was on the side of the tub in the front. I kept giving her water from my hand because it was taking a while to get the right temperature. It finally was right and so I went around to the back to get in. Flurry did the same thing, but between the shower curtain and the plastic protecters. I didn't realize this until I bumped her into the tub with my knee. By this time there was a little bit of water in the bottom and so I wondered now she would react...she does love water.

She scrambled out so quickly that the whole event was over in a blink of an eye. I laughed at her...the whole event seemed like a good lesson.

Tuesday: counting

Today this child is 23 weeks old. Or something. Apparently at 23 weeks you get told your age by what size you are, not what age you are. Wouldn't that be cool as an adult? You could age backwards.

Anyway, that's not the point.

The point is that I'm annoyed with how months are counted in pregnancy. At 23 weeks, I start my 6th month and can tell everyone that I'm six months pregnant. Being six months pregnant lasts from 5m1d to 5m28d. When my baby is a real six months old, it will be when he is 6m1d to 6m30d. It seems like this latter way is how it should work. What especially annoys me is that they are measured differently. Sure, one seems like a better option, but either would be fine. BUT THEY SHOULD BE THE SAME. I always feel like I'm lying when I say how far along I am in months, so I try to go with weeks.

In more other news, I'm about halfway through knowing about the baby. I managed to skip week 20 because he jumped to week 21, so I'll celebrate today (by doing nothing special).

Sunday: hi

Hi.

Not much to say tonight. Oh well. Can you believe that the summer is almost done?

Saturday: evil genius

Today I played the game "Evil Genius" more than I should have.

I expected my minion to do the chores, since I was busy taking over the world.

Flurry just looked at me and yawned.

Friday: registering

Ben and I went to Target tonight to start registering. Not to necessarily scan everything we wanted there, but at least get started.

I think it would have been hilarious to watch us; we had almost no clue what we were doing.

"Let's choose a crib! I read that the slat have to be no more than so far apart and no drop sides."
"They all have those features."
"And they all turn into toddler beds."
"Well, I think that one is ugly."
"I don't like this one."
"That still leaves three to choose from."

"Let's get a mattress! The firmer the better."
" Extra firm or ultra firm?"
"uh.."
(We were able to figure that one out...one had more coils.)

"Let's get spoons!"
...
...
"There's too many."
Luckily, a nice lady took pity on us and recommended some.

"Let's get this shark towel."
"It doesn't look like a shark."
"I know. It actually looks like a monster and I think that'll be cuter."

"Let's get a pack-n-play!"
"This one has too much extra stuff."
"This one has a hood...that looks annoying to deal with."
"You can leave the second level in when packing this one up."
"Score."
(This was probably the easiest thing to choose.)

"Let's get him an electronic!"
"Only if you can justify why it should be on the registry."
"A large TV? He will need a large TV."
( We couldn't find one absurdly large enough.)
"Legos? How about Lego Pirates, the video game."
"ok."

Thursday: emails

Last night I sent an email to a few old co-workers to let them know that I was pregnant. Word spread and a bunch of people ended up emailing me back. It was a nice feeling.

Wednesday: a funny

Oh, I guess you'll need to click on the picture. I came across this while doing some training for work.

Tuesday: quote

(I couldn't find the quote but I'll credit it to him anyway.)

As my wise brother once said, "Change is hard."

Monday: baby advice requested

Well, now that we know we're having a boy (and the first baby shower is coming up soon), I'm looking for advice. I know there is a lot of advice out in the mysterious interwebs, but I'm curious as to what my friends (or random readers) think. So I'll happily read any advice that you have, although I will admit that I might not follow all the advice.

To get you started:

1. Registries

1a. We will be registering at Target. Babies R Us is about 45 minutes away from us. Would Babies R Us or Amazon be a better choice?

1b. What is something that you thought you needed but you really didn't end up using?

1c. What is something that you wish had been on the list?

1d. There are so many options...which items do we need to research ahead of time and which can we go to the store and pick our favorite?

1e. What specific things (with a brand) have worked well for you and that you would recommend?

2. Diapers

2a. We're considering cloth diapers. Any thoughts?

2b. How much extra work/time do cloth diapers actually take?

2c. Which brand of diapers (cloth or disposable) seem to work well or poorly for you?

3. Daycare

3a. What questions do you think we should ask prospective daycare providers (beyond the basics)?

4. Other

4a. What tricks did you learn that worked well?

4b. What other advice do you have that hasn't been covered in a previous question?

Sunday nights: they still hate me

Sunday nights still hate me. All Sunday nights.

I don't know what I do differently on Sundays that I don't do on Saturdays. I couldn't think of anything that I consistently do differently.

Saturday: random things

Lots of random things today...

Here is a picture of Flurry in one of her favorite places. Sometimes she just hangs out there, even if we aren't in the bathroom.




Ben felt the baby move today. He said it felt really faint (and it was one of the stronger kicks) but he was able to identify when the baby kicked without me saying anything.

Here I am at 21 weeks.




We went to a party with people from Ben's work tonight. I knew one person, so that was nice. Actually, I kind of knew two because I was an intern with one at JCI right after high school. we were doing the normal, "I don't think we've met when we looked at each other and realized that we did know each other."

Also I realized that I don't know what the word Ebenezer means, even though it is in hymn that I like (it was also the name of a church that we passed). It means "stone of help.".

I wish it wouldn't feel so wasteful to get new sheets more often. They're so soft.

Thursday: donuts

Today we're not going to talk about how many donuts I had today, because it was more than I should have had.

But they were all delicious.

Tuesday/Wednesday: It's a...

...day we've all been waiting for: ultrasound day! Yay! The baby seems healthy, at least according to the initial looks. I'll find out in about two weeks if that isn't the case.

The baby on the side: head on the right. The baby was rather wiggly. It started in one direction and by the end had turned itself 180 degrees. We also saw its mouth open and close a few times.



We saw all the different parts, including a foot, arms, legs, heart, head, etc. As the tech was going through the different layers of the skull it looked kind of like a horror film, but the outermost layer always looked ok.






After doing the measurements they also moved the due date up a week to Dec 27. It's a little bit sad that it is closer to Christmas, but at the same time it would be nice to meet the baby earlier.

Well, on to the news that I know you've been anxiously waiting for...how my MRI scan went this morning. Imagine you're at a new age concert with a synthesizer and a wooden block...that's what it sounded like. Except you could see only white. I had the scan because of my weird, super short but super painful headaches that I was having in March and April. I haven't had them since then, but since it wasn't the first round of them the doctor decided to get the MRI done just in case. It was longer than I expected...20 to 30 minutes...and by the end I was getting sore from just being still for so long. I'll find out in a few days if there's something wrong, but I doubt it.

Ok, back to the baby. It's a boy. I had convinced myself that it was a girl so I was rather surprised, but not at all sad. I keep saying to myself, "It's a boy!!"

Tuesday: sleepy

Well, I had a special post all figured out in my head but then I got too tired to write it. So tomorrow you'll get an two for the price of one post, because I knew what I was writing about for tomorrow too.

did I just mess up my tenses? I'll blame it on being sleepy.

Monday: emails

Today I was hoping to receive several (3-4) email in my inbox when I got home. They were all "business" related...nothing fun, but still interesting and pertaining to things we're trying to do right now.

I only got one. I was a bit disappointed and proceeded to check my email every five minutes for the next half hour, even though it was after 5pm and no one was going to get back to me any longer.

Sunday: hmm

Hmm, I realized that I should write something tonight. Well, maybe not should write. But want to write. But...we didn't really do anything that profound again today. Flurry cuddled with us more this weekend than she has in a long time, so that was nice.

Saturday: rain

It was a wonderful rainy day today. I managed to get some chores done, but was also rather tired and so did a lot of relaxing. Relaxing and rain go well together.

Friday: dreams

I keep dreaming about doing chores. Which is annoying not only because I'm doing chores in my dreams, but they still aren't done in real life.

Thursday: turtle diagrams

I've been in training the last two days. At one point yesterday we learned about turtle diagrams. The instructor said, "This is a turtle diagram, for obvious reasons." However, I would like to say that it is not obvious. I mean sure, there is a turtle in the middle. But why a turtle? We'll also notice that three legs are inputs and one leg is an output, so there isn't even continuity with that.

It has seriously bothered me for two days now.

Image from here

Wednesday: food

It seemed as though everything interesting today centered around food. I had a donut for breakfast this morning (yay) but then threw it up. Then Flurry threw up her food.

I had some delicious bread and homemade jam for a snack, but then dropped the last bite on the floor. I was in training all day and so they gave us lunch, and while eating a big wind gust gusted and knocked my red HiC on someone's pants and lost the last two bites of sandwich to the ground.

On the upside of food, some friends from NY came by for the night! We went out for dinner, visited the beach, and stopped for ice cream. It was nice to see some familiar faces again.

Tuesday: M&Ms

A few weeks ago Ben put a few normal M&Ms in the Cheerio box. I found them yesterday. It was exciting and delicious...much better than getting a little toy in the box.

Sunday: normal weekend

This weekend was the first weekend in a while that felt normal. A nice amount of chores got completed...more than have been completed in a while but about the normal amount that used to get done before we both got sick. And the kitchen is clean! And we have the new sheets on the bed!

Saturday: Flurry's new food

Flurry used to get this food. I liked it because she seemed to be able to regulate herself on eating it. Once in a while she would eat all of it, but most of the time there was a little bit left the next day, so I knew she wasn't starving and that she was a smart cat and wouldn't get herself fat.

Then Flurry started having some small problems, so the vet recommended hairball control food. She loves this food. She eats her daily allotment within the first hour. She's chewed open the ziplock that we keep some food in twice. She looks at her food bowl with sad eyes whenever we're in the kitchen.

I don't know whether to be happy that we've found a food that she likes or sad because it now takes more work to keep her from overeating.

Friday: baby update

I finally had my doctor's appointment today. I'm supposed to be eating more vegetables, but besides that everything went well. The heart rate was 165 and the baby kicked once to let us know we were invading its privacy.

Wednesday: one of those days

Today was one of those days were one thing went wrong and suddenly every thing was going wrong.

:(

Tuesday: blast from the past

Today I was installing some training software on my computer at work. no big deal, right? Wrong. I need a floppy drive. The software requires a floppy drive to save data to...and you can't change it to another drive. I installed the software with a CD, so it made me wonder when the software was published.


2001

Really? floppy disks were almost dead by then. I had a box I brought with me to college, but rarely used it. So to not even have the option to change from the floppy seems idiotic.