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note: future baby posts can be found on my new blog, Spellbound Baby.
(I'm 23 weeks, or about five and a half months here)
While I was on vacation in San Diego my family threw me an early baby shower. Among the mound of awesome gifts bestowed upon Spellbound Baby was this stroller, which we came in the mail yesterday and was assembled this evening. We brought the baby over to get acquainted with its ride.
It's amazing how much thought goes into choosing each of these baby things. After what seemed like a complicated series of algorithms, we decided on this one because it offered us a full sized stroller that was light weight.
Plus, it matches the blog =)
Thanks for the stroller Dad and Sally. I'll post more pictures of the baby shower once I get them from my mom.
Not much of a newsflash for anyone living in the Midwest, but it is cold today. When I got home from San Diego yesterday it was no-coat-necessary weather (in the thirties) so I was a little surprised at how cold I was when I walked outside this morning coat-clad.
The suddenly frozen lakes should have tipped me off that it was about 9 degrees around ten this morning.
The greatest thing about this winter is that the baby will emerge from it with us.
Spellbound baby is halfway here. So I thought I'd post a little update:
We kind of think the baby is a boy. We have no reason for thinking this because we're not finding out the sex ahead of time. But for whatever reasons we find ourselves saying "he is kicking" or "I wonder if he ..." When we do this, we usually recover with "or she," because the baby might be able to hear us now and we don't want to give her a complex if she is a girl.
My mom, niece Elizabeth and friend Amy think its a girl. Feel free to guess for yourself; the odds are great.
As implied above, I can feel the baby kicking now. I started feeling him or her around 16 weeks, but the movement of their little hands and feet are a lot more regular now. Joe even felt the baby the other day, but that was a super-ninja kick.
After the baby is born we will stick their ninja feet in these starfish booties.
In other news, I'm headed to San Diego tomorrow to visit family. I'll be gone for a week.
Photo from our wedding
by Michelle King, MK Photography
As most of you know, we're expecting a baby around April 1st. The midwife due date has moved up to March 31. Maybe we'll have to get a pool started =). The baby and I are both doing great, now that I have recovered from my crazy bought with pneumonia. The illness doesn't seem to have affected Spellbound baby, who's measuring perfectly on schedule.
A few things about Spellbound baby:
First I thought it was a girl. Then we both thought it was a boy. Now I think it's a girl again. Whoever said the mother is 65% right, wasn't counting on me changing my mind =). At this rate, I'm going to be 100% right.
He or she is a wiggle-worm, ninja-kicker. Though I can't feel it yet, the baby was wiggling and kicking a ton when we had an ultrasound two weeks ago. Yesterday the baby kicked the machine the midwife uses to listen to the baby's heartbeat.
If our memory of genetics is as clear as we think it is (no guarantees) our baby will almost certainly have blue eyes, dimples and either positive or negative type O blood.
He or she will also have an awesome name we're not ready to share.
But we will share the sex, if the baby is willing to show us at our next appointment on a very special day, October 30. October 30 is also the anniversary of Joe's sister Jody and her husband Toby, as well as the birthday of their youngest, wrestler-dancer-kindergartner Joe E.
And, because the joke has already been said: Yes, this will be a highly photographed child.
