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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
All Grown Up
The new baby is coming just in time...Sam started dressing himself yesterday. Picked out his clothes and everything. He was SO proud of himself, I didn't have the heart to tell him everything was backwards. ;)
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
30 Weeks!
Happy 30 weeks to the little froggie in my tummy :) Since he/she measured small at the last scan we got to see him/her again this morning. Sam had fun telling Dada everything the technicians said about the baby, even though Dada could see/hear for himself...
Head and legs are still a bit small (not overly worryingly so), but that could be for a whole host of reasons, including that he/she hasn't spent much time head down. All the organs look just fine, the brain does too, we're just going to have the itty-bitty baby my doc thought we'd have this time. Neither me or Sam for that matter were over 7 lbs so its probably another case of the crazy percentiles striking again. (Altogether baby is in the 32% which is totally fine.) His/her heart rate was 135 which is great, and estimated weight was 2 lb 13 oz, also pretty good.
This little one was surprisingly still at first, usually he/she is all over the place. Case in point: about 2 weeks ago he/she flipped head down, and has since then flipped spots about every other day. Over the weekend he/she felt like transverse (where he/she spent most of the past several weeks) was comfy, then he/she went head down again for our checkup, transverse again and last night he/she went breech and now the head is up in my tummy. I have more room than the baby is using in there right now and he/she seems to be quite happy making the most of it.
When this little one is awake he/she makes some very rapid movements, all the time. He/she likes to keep hands and feet all together for the most part, unless he/she's trying to flip and then I feel these long, hard, stretching, swiping movements in places. For some reason it reminds me of when Caspian gets stuck under the bed and has to scrape around to try and get out. During the scan he/she never stopped moving his/her mouth and sticking his/her tongue in and out. Silly baby, it was fun and funny to watch.
Here are some of the clearer pictures we got.
And as you can probably tell from all the he/she, his/her foolishness the gender is still a secret from Dada...I can't believe I've made it 10 weeks without slipping up!
Head and legs are still a bit small (not overly worryingly so), but that could be for a whole host of reasons, including that he/she hasn't spent much time head down. All the organs look just fine, the brain does too, we're just going to have the itty-bitty baby my doc thought we'd have this time. Neither me or Sam for that matter were over 7 lbs so its probably another case of the crazy percentiles striking again. (Altogether baby is in the 32% which is totally fine.) His/her heart rate was 135 which is great, and estimated weight was 2 lb 13 oz, also pretty good.
This little one was surprisingly still at first, usually he/she is all over the place. Case in point: about 2 weeks ago he/she flipped head down, and has since then flipped spots about every other day. Over the weekend he/she felt like transverse (where he/she spent most of the past several weeks) was comfy, then he/she went head down again for our checkup, transverse again and last night he/she went breech and now the head is up in my tummy. I have more room than the baby is using in there right now and he/she seems to be quite happy making the most of it.
When this little one is awake he/she makes some very rapid movements, all the time. He/she likes to keep hands and feet all together for the most part, unless he/she's trying to flip and then I feel these long, hard, stretching, swiping movements in places. For some reason it reminds me of when Caspian gets stuck under the bed and has to scrape around to try and get out. During the scan he/she never stopped moving his/her mouth and sticking his/her tongue in and out. Silly baby, it was fun and funny to watch.
Here are some of the clearer pictures we got.
And as you can probably tell from all the he/she, his/her foolishness the gender is still a secret from Dada...I can't believe I've made it 10 weeks without slipping up!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
"Tell me more about that"
"Tell me more about that" is Sam's new favorite question/phrase. If you are a parent, or just like to laugh at them whenever you hear their kid ask "why" one hundred times, "tell me more about that" goes way beyond "why?" Why? At least with "why" eventually it will devolve into "because that's how God created this or that" or "you'll have to ask God when we pray tonight."
With "tell me more about that" it NEVER ends. I love Sam's inquisitive mind, his incredible imagination and his ability to comprehend a lot of what we're saying when we do tell him more about that. That being said, it's hard to be driving home trying to explain the aerodynamics/mechanics of why Larryboy's airplane can go from being a car, to a plane, to crashing into the ground without actually crashing because it exchanged the nose of the plane for a bore head and is drilling into the depths of Bumblyburg. (While maintaining enough focus on my driving so as not to crash myself.) I tried to just say that it was just because the car changed parts when the buttons were pushed and leave it, but he wanted to know what a bore head does. I had to "tell him more about that", and then I had to explain how Larryboy's plane can fly in the first place. Then I had to explain why Larryboy had to fly high into the air to be able to crash into the ground with enough force; and then why he couldn't just drive down. Somehow I managed to muddle through without giving him a load of bad information that would need to be corrected down the road when he's in the top of his class at the CO School of Mines, because this kid remembers everything and has brought up that specific conversation since, and eventually segued it over to Larryboy flying to visit Uncle Eric in Alaska.
BUT then I had to tell him more about that.
[P.S. If anyone out there has any statics/chemistry/physics/geology/etc. textbooks lying around, I might need to borrow them. I don't think "Physics for Dummies" is going to hack it much longer :S]
With "tell me more about that" it NEVER ends. I love Sam's inquisitive mind, his incredible imagination and his ability to comprehend a lot of what we're saying when we do tell him more about that. That being said, it's hard to be driving home trying to explain the aerodynamics/mechanics of why Larryboy's airplane can go from being a car, to a plane, to crashing into the ground without actually crashing because it exchanged the nose of the plane for a bore head and is drilling into the depths of Bumblyburg. (While maintaining enough focus on my driving so as not to crash myself.) I tried to just say that it was just because the car changed parts when the buttons were pushed and leave it, but he wanted to know what a bore head does. I had to "tell him more about that", and then I had to explain how Larryboy's plane can fly in the first place. Then I had to explain why Larryboy had to fly high into the air to be able to crash into the ground with enough force; and then why he couldn't just drive down. Somehow I managed to muddle through without giving him a load of bad information that would need to be corrected down the road when he's in the top of his class at the CO School of Mines, because this kid remembers everything and has brought up that specific conversation since, and eventually segued it over to Larryboy flying to visit Uncle Eric in Alaska.
BUT then I had to tell him more about that.
[P.S. If anyone out there has any statics/chemistry/physics/geology/etc. textbooks lying around, I might need to borrow them. I don't think "Physics for Dummies" is going to hack it much longer :S]
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