Que onda bebe!

What a giant brain. Baby Chaud moved HIS arms a lot during the perinatal ultrasound. I was tempted (ie, eager) to upload the sex determining photo of my genetic legacy, but cooler, classier heads have prevailed. Instead enjoy this skelelicious cross section of our new son's face.





We had intended to celebrate our gender-specific baby with the purchase of a gender-specific outfit, but alas, alack, the post-Christmas sales leave much to be desired in the way of Fall and post-Winter gear, not exactly things a Gemini baby being born in late May will ever need.

We've got about a dozen photos of varying amusement. The entire experience was rather slick with the setup U-M has, a large room that is one part examination chamber and one part cinematic theater.

Enjoy your holiday time! The year of provenance will be upon us soon!

carrots and mustard

has anyone ever heard of a craving of mini carrots dipped in yellow mustard? me neither. when patrick had this snack yesterday, i thought for sure he was a daddy-to-be. yuck!

week 17

remember the 2nd trimester energy that was supposed to come? i think i have experienced it. although i enjoyed sleeping in late saturday, my days and evenings are filled with activity and i barely blink an eye. this weekend was filled with christmas preparations. lots of walking, but also making and eating cookies. maybe the pregnant glow will be next week. stay tuned for a new picture when the glow appears (maybe i can photoshop one in).

baby chaud is now the size of a large onion. i am amazed how many food comparisons baby magazines make. one week it was an avocado, another week a lemon. the amount of food parallels and pregnancy is enormous.

last night i ate a hot fudge sundae. i was driven to buy all the ingredients and meijers. patrick looked at me like i was a crazy, cause that is for sure not something i would normally give in to. we both enjoyed them, however!

baby chaud has a strong heartbeat. it measured in at 154 today and is right on track. next week, i will post the second photo from the ultrasound. i am looking forward to that as well as some flutters.

Giving the baby gonorrhea

Perhaps I shall give the baby the CLAP and while I'm at it, tuberculosis, influenza and of course, HIV.

All sorts of maladies in plush form!

You'll find some of these scurried away in almost any microbiology lab. Good fun, but I've never had a thought to buy one until now. Teaching science through stuffed microbes is both clever and disturbing, my kind of combination.

16 weeks

santa dogs

Development Report, Week 16

Fingernails, fingernails, fingernails. There should be some on Baby Chaud this week. Protein synthesis of this sort (keratin) requires cellular efforts of only the most advanced cells, so all is well. Mom had aspargus last night, which is a vegetable rich in folic acid, a key component of hematopoeisis or red blood cell formation.

Yesterday we took the dogs to see Santa. I doubt we'll attempt to drag Baby Chaud and two dogs to see a jolly retired man next year. Indeed, the entire concept of Santa seems wasted on anyone under the age of 2. I vacillate on how I might introduce the concept of Santa to my child. Surely, I have no problems with lying to children; some concepts are just too complicated to explain to underdevelopmed minds. Rather it seems like a tool ripe for harvesting for obedience, which once again, anyone under 2 lacks the ability to be swayed by. Still, there's probably going to be a good two years between 2 and 4 where the child will be unable to grasp what a lie is and totally be infatuated with the idea of a big fat man with a bag breaking into our house to deliver toys he's been slavishly working on all year with his platoon of non-unionized, tight-wearing elves. That must be a good parenting tool!

And oh yeah, chances are I'm going to be a Father right in time for Father's Day. How fortuitous!