You can figure it out

(yep- that's the actual test)

Did you figure it out?

I am almost 10 weeks pregnant!  I'm due in mid-January.

This is our baby!

It's kind of hard to tell what you're looking at.  Our baby is still very tiny.  2.28 cm to be exact.  About the size of a grape.  In about 4 more days the baby will be the size of a kumquat.  The ultrasound technician flipped the probe to 3-D for a couple of seconds.  There was much more detail and it was very cool looking, but she didn't take any pictures like that.  It's probably a stupid insurance thing.  Anyway, I circled the pertinent parts.

That ultrasound picture was taken at 8 weeks 6 days.  We'll have another ultrasound in mid-August when we'll find out if it is a Michael Jr. or a Natalie Jr.

The heart rate was 178 beats/minute.  A hummingbird's heart rate is 250 beats/minute.  A sloth's is 45 beats/minute.

My official due date is January 18th, but I know better than anyone that the due date means nothing.

With my prior birth history (of one baby) I'll deliver on December 19th and have a Christmas Baby.

I'll be full-term on December 28th. 

That would make for an after-Christmas baby, which is fine and great, but our 10th anniversary is the 29th.  I'd like to be doing something fun, a.k.a. not being in labor.  I already did that on my 28th birthday.

January 1st might be fun.  We'd get to be on the 10:00 news and the hospital would give us an edible arrangement (hopefully a chocolate dipped one).

January 6th would be convenient because then I would only have to remember one day of the month when taking monthly pictures.

January 20th was my grandfather's birthday.  He would have turned 94 in 2012. 

If this is a boy in my belly, his middle name will be Stephen, after my grandfather (and my dad and my older brother). And no, we won't tell you first names until he/she is born.  Sorry.

Whenever this little baby decides to come (full-term, hopefully) is fine by me.  I'm just looking forward to bringing a baby home from the hospital and nursing a newborn when it's NOT 112 degrees. 

P.S. If you are reading this because I texted you about my posting a picture of you, don't worry, that obviously wasn't true. I just needed a way to get you to look at the blog asap. Tricky huh?