Baby Update

On Tuesday I had a 4D ultrasound because I have never had one before and I wanted the experience. Rick was not too excited because as he put it, "You're going to see him in a couple of months-why do we need to spend all this money now?" It was expensive, and even though money is tight for us just like it is for everyone else, we have justified spending money before on other things that I have thought were unnecessary so why can't I have something?


Anyway I loved it, and I even got Rick to admit it was (mostly) worth the money. Not so much seeing what our baby looks like (after all, we WILL be seeing him in 11 weeks!), but seeing what he's up to in there, the expressions that he makes, you know-basically what life is like for him in the womb. He was moving all around, giving the tech quite a hard time getting good shots, and we found out he was breech at that moment-I never would have figured that out since he is so very active. He feels like he's all over the place, and I can't ever tell which position he's in. We got to see him open his eyes (looks more like a slit versus wide open like out-of-the-womb eyes), take a drink of yummy amniotic fluid, and yawn. Of course I have to share some of the photos cause he is just too cute to keep all to myself: In this first one (on the right) he has his arm/hand up the side of his face; he's kind of resting on it. His foot is sticking up touching his nose. (I couldn't do that if my very life depended on it!)

His profile:



A yawn (must be tired from being up flip-flopping ALL NIGHT LONG...)

His momma's little nose and a perfect hand:


So now when my guy is moving around and giving me heartburn, or when I see the horrid varicose vein on my leg, or when I'm up every hour to pee I can picture him in there and it helps me not to care so much about the discomforts. Not that I wasn't excited/happy before, but feeling like I know him so much more because I can picture him in there is really cool! I always secretly thought women who paid $$ to have these ultrasounds were kind of lame, but now I totally get it!! It was an amazing experience!

The tech said she was surprised how active he stayed the entire time-he never settled down, and despite all the movement we never got a full front view of his face. At least there's still some element of surprise for when he's born. He also hid the frank and beans, but we are 100% sure he's a he so that's okay.

Of course we had big brother and sister there with us. Yeah, that was fun. I thought at least Sarah would be interested in seeing what was going on inside my tummy, but she really didn't care, or didn't understand, or both. Instead she was interested in jumping from the bed onto the adjacent couch to the floor. Patrick was pretty good until he started crying and trying to escape the room. Poor Rick had to leave and hang out in the car for the rest of the session, but at least I got a DVD recording so he watched it at home while I tried to remember everything the tech described (hey some of those body parts look a lot a like!).

I will be 29 weeks on Monday which means I am running out of time to get everything done. You'd think with having kiddos already there wouldn't be too much to prepare, but really there is. I still don't have Patrick in his new room-he doesn't even have any furniture, just the new carpet, blinds, and fresh paint. Also I was hoping to get all my pictures in albums to make room in our closets. I am nesting for the first time in my life (never had that with the other two) and I do not like it! It would be different if I could actually get things accomplished, but what happens is I get distracted while doing a normal, everyday chore, such as vacuuming. Okay so I'm vacuuming and I'll notice the baseboards are filthy. So I bust out the Magic Eraser and start cleaning the baseboards. Then while I'm scrubbing those the grime on the walls becomes apparent so I have to clean them. This will take hours so I'll set the kids up with a tea party or with playdough or something to keep them busy which, of course, leads to another huge mess that I then have to clean. My point is: nesting is BAD because in order to accomplish the insane cleaning I neglect the normal, day-to-day things that HAVE to be done, which leaves the house looking horrible and ultimately leads to way more work. So I have all these ideas in my head of things I want to tackle (the utility room, the kitchen cabinets, the closets), but the reality of life with two very active young children prevents me from being able to do any of it. IT IS LITERALLY DRIVING ME NUTS. I can't stand the filth, but I can't get it cleaned either. AAAGGHHHHH!!!!