Picture That

171 ways to say "I Love You"

We had our second ultrasound. First off, it seems that Kendra was, thankfully, wrong on her dates. It looks like we conceived on Mother's Day, and the official due date is now Feb. 1st, 2008.


We got all sorts of new pics, which will be up in a day or so. But the coolest part, the part I wish we'd recorded, was we got to hear the heart beat. It's going at 171 beats per minute, and it's so great to know our baby is living.

That's it for now. More latter :D

100 Proof (babyproof, that is)

Yeah I'm really digging this baby thing. Here's a brief update because I just can't focus that much on a lot that's go.

• We're worried that either A) Kendra may have gotten her dates off by about a month or B) The pregnancy may not be viable. If B proves to be the case, then yeah I'm going to be sad as all hell because my life has changed so much because of this. BUT I know that we can do it again, which is more than I knew two months ago. Which, as of this date, is about where we're at (we're at 7 weeks, 3 days right now).
• We've nicknamed the baby "Baby Bean." This way, we have a name to refer to it as but we're not really wasting one of our names that we're trying to pick out or we're not stuck with a name we don't like,
• Names are hard. Boys names not so much, but girls names are a killer. We're trying to avoid family member names we dislike (which rules out a lot) and people we can think of with the same name that we hate. And we don't like a lot of people. Odds are if it's a girl we're going to either name her something based around a Greek deity or representative thereof or after a lesbian couple we're tight friends with. I think this is why I don't write books or short stories - I get hung up on the names.
  
• I love Babies "R" Us. For starters, the gift registry there is AWESOME. You can set it up so people can search for the registry by the grandparents. So, they may not know Kendra's new last name, but they know her mom. They have a book of essentials for new parents to make the registry a lot simpler too. Also, they give you this sweet gift pack of a lot of samples and essentials. We've got a small bottle, a baby plug (aka pacifier), breast milk bags, and coupons.
• More I love Babies "R" Us - They have lots of great classes. We went to the babyproofing seminar tonight. I asked lots of questions, and we got MORE free stuff - they give stuff out there like mad.
• Going back to registry's though, we're fans of Wish Fish in this household. You can see the full and generally updated "I want that" list at http://www.wishfish.com/wishlist/view.aspx?id=2507. Remember - you don't need to buy our love, but it doesn't hurt to try. In all honesty, this list is more a guideline than a hard and fast rule set. As an example, if we have a car seat on there it doesn't need to be THAT car seat - but it should have the same general specifications (5 point harness, separate base for the car, work for up to 50lbs, etc.).
• Tomorrow we're going to try and get another ultrasound to see if the baby is growing. We have another scheduled for next week too, but we kinda can't wait that long, yanno?
• If all goes well tomorrow I plan to do more cleaning to get the place ready for baby and start a babyproofing plan. I also am going to research some ways to do a cloth diaper without pins (because I'm cool like that) as well as start hunting down free baby samples.
• I'm also going to try and clean out my old footlocker to have as the baby chest - a place for us to start stashing baby stuff until about midway into the second trimester. This way if the worst does happen, we don't have it in plain view.

OK, that's about it for now. Sporadic updates to follow!

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