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