Thursday, August 20, 2009

Nickname

I was just talking to someone I know who is Russian and whom I'd told previously about Baby. He asked me, "How is your insider?" HA! I loved that - especially how it sounded with a heavy Russian accent. I think I might nickname him my "Insider" until his birthday.

Anybody else out there have fun nicknames they had for babies before/after they were born? My household is extremely pro-nickname. The winner is actually Buttercup, our cat - referred to as Cup, Cuppaluppagus, Cuppopottomus, B-Cups (thank PrisonBreak for that one), and Cups-is-the-Pottomus, to name a few.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Week 18

Oops, forgot to post this one earlier, I guess!

If you've seen Facebook, you know already, but...

We're having a boy! He's absolutely adorable, and seems perfect in every way. I've never been incredibly impressed by other people's ultrasound pictures, but this experience absolutely blew me away. I love being able to think about him as "him," as our son instead of simply our baby. The day-to-day, moment-to-moment experience seems much more real now.

He yawned while we were watching, but the technician didn't include a picture of it (grrrrr). She noted how unusually visible his heart (with all four chambers) was (sheesh, she didn't include a picture of that, either, even though she took six or seven! Grrrrr times two).

Anyway, we're halfway there (amazingly!). So far, so good!





Week 20




The front view is at the request of Alena, but I have to say I don't love it. :-)