As usual my boys are surrounded by lovely ladies! :)
Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Sorry girls...
It's February and love is in the air!
As usual my boys are surrounded by lovely ladies! :)
But even though they may be "#1 with the ladies".... "Sorry girls, Mommy says NO DATING"!
As usual my boys are surrounded by lovely ladies! :)
Sunday, March 14, 2010
I'm late! (No, not that kind of late... well, actually....)
I am actually a day late posting! Sorry if you've been waiting on me. I've posted my Saturday posts late in the day before but never a whole day late... there is a first time for everything though and I have a feeling that once Floodling arrives I will have a whole new meaning to the word "late"!
I was actually out of town without a computer on Friday and Saturday. I attended a FLAG conference (Foreign Langauge Association of Georgia). It was actually very fun and informative! I have a TON of new stuff to bring back to my classroom, and not just ideas! I did a "make and take" seminar on Friday morning and actually made some games and things to use. This was one of the first conferences I've been to where I didn't feel like it was a complete waste of time. I usually sit in the seminars falling asleep because they're boring or it's something I already know. Especially now that I teach elementary school I have a hard time finding sessions that apply to me (I don't teach grammar, I can't really use computers or internet.. and overall my kids are just not teenagers!). Elementary school language teachers are few and far between so most conferences are geared towards middle and high school. But there were a TON of seminars for elementary teachers this time. And every one of them had us either up and moving, or singing, or coloring, or doing something fun! Besides the awkwardness of having to share a hotel room with a complete stranger I had a really good time.
I left the conference a bit early on Saturday so I could get home and actually visit with my mom! That was a nice surprise. My dad was driving down to Birmingham, Alabama for a motorcycle track weekend and my mom decided to go with him and just drive out to Atlanta to visit me. She got here yesterday afternoon and we just sat and talked the afternoon away, went to Longhorn's for dinner (yay steak!) and chatted some more. She stayed the night and left this morning... thus the reason my blog post is late. It was so nice to see her, even if it was just for an evening. And she got to feel Floodling wiggle for the first time! Actually she felt lots of wiggles!
Speaking of... Floodling is obviously getting bigger these days! I can feel him more and more and his movements are getting a LOT stronger. I can actually feel him "shifting" now.... not just the little kicks and pokes, but I can feel my whole belly kind of shift as it feels like he slides around inside. It's still not painful, but I can only imagine if he's moving this much now what it's going to be like later on and he has even less space!
In fact, Floodling definitely is bigger these days. I had my monthly high risk OB appointment on Thursday. He's a whopping 2 lbs. 6 oz. or so now! He's still "above" the curve (somewhere in the 60th or 70th percentile... I don't remember exactly). Turns out last time when he was "right on target" it was because they had my due date in the computer off by a whole week! They had it as 6-11-10 instead of 6-17-10... someone read the 7 of my actual due date as a 1. While it's not a huge deal (I know it's highly unlikely he'll actually be on time) it does make a difference when it comes to measurements, and that's the whole purpose of these appointments! I actually caught it because I noticed that my last ultrasound pics said 22 wks 6 days but it should have been 22 wks 0 days, so I asked about it and the tech went to check on it. She came back and asked where I got the date 6-17-10 and I said "my OB/GYN" so she left again and came back and was like "oops...". Kind of scary! The doctor apologized several times... I know they don't like to be caught in mistakes like that.
Floodling is about the length of an English cucumber at 26 weeks, but instead of a fruit/vegetable picture, or a drawing of a baby inside the womb, how about a picture of what he actually looks like?
Isn't that a cool picture?? That's the front view, by the way. Can you see it? It took me a second, but once you see it it's really cool! (Kind of like a "Magic Eye" picture) I think it's much better than this front view at 18 weeks...
You can really see the shape of his chin though in both the pics! So cute!! My friend Stacey says it's my chin... I wonder if he'll have a dimple in his chin like Mommy too! I think that's much cuter on boys than girls... (And he is definitely still a boy.... once again he was flaunting it, the tech laughed.... I'm a little worried!)
P.S I uploaded 2 other ultrasound pics on my "Ultrasound Photos" page (in the right-hand bar or you can click here).
P.P.S Don't forget to vote on my poll also in the right-hand bar! Do you think Floodling will arrive early, late, or right on time??
I was actually out of town without a computer on Friday and Saturday. I attended a FLAG conference (Foreign Langauge Association of Georgia). It was actually very fun and informative! I have a TON of new stuff to bring back to my classroom, and not just ideas! I did a "make and take" seminar on Friday morning and actually made some games and things to use. This was one of the first conferences I've been to where I didn't feel like it was a complete waste of time. I usually sit in the seminars falling asleep because they're boring or it's something I already know. Especially now that I teach elementary school I have a hard time finding sessions that apply to me (I don't teach grammar, I can't really use computers or internet.. and overall my kids are just not teenagers!). Elementary school language teachers are few and far between so most conferences are geared towards middle and high school. But there were a TON of seminars for elementary teachers this time. And every one of them had us either up and moving, or singing, or coloring, or doing something fun! Besides the awkwardness of having to share a hotel room with a complete stranger I had a really good time.
I left the conference a bit early on Saturday so I could get home and actually visit with my mom! That was a nice surprise. My dad was driving down to Birmingham, Alabama for a motorcycle track weekend and my mom decided to go with him and just drive out to Atlanta to visit me. She got here yesterday afternoon and we just sat and talked the afternoon away, went to Longhorn's for dinner (yay steak!) and chatted some more. She stayed the night and left this morning... thus the reason my blog post is late. It was so nice to see her, even if it was just for an evening. And she got to feel Floodling wiggle for the first time! Actually she felt lots of wiggles!
Speaking of... Floodling is obviously getting bigger these days! I can feel him more and more and his movements are getting a LOT stronger. I can actually feel him "shifting" now.... not just the little kicks and pokes, but I can feel my whole belly kind of shift as it feels like he slides around inside. It's still not painful, but I can only imagine if he's moving this much now what it's going to be like later on and he has even less space!
In fact, Floodling definitely is bigger these days. I had my monthly high risk OB appointment on Thursday. He's a whopping 2 lbs. 6 oz. or so now! He's still "above" the curve (somewhere in the 60th or 70th percentile... I don't remember exactly). Turns out last time when he was "right on target" it was because they had my due date in the computer off by a whole week! They had it as 6-11-10 instead of 6-17-10... someone read the 7 of my actual due date as a 1. While it's not a huge deal (I know it's highly unlikely he'll actually be on time) it does make a difference when it comes to measurements, and that's the whole purpose of these appointments! I actually caught it because I noticed that my last ultrasound pics said 22 wks 6 days but it should have been 22 wks 0 days, so I asked about it and the tech went to check on it. She came back and asked where I got the date 6-17-10 and I said "my OB/GYN" so she left again and came back and was like "oops...". Kind of scary! The doctor apologized several times... I know they don't like to be caught in mistakes like that.
Floodling is about the length of an English cucumber at 26 weeks, but instead of a fruit/vegetable picture, or a drawing of a baby inside the womb, how about a picture of what he actually looks like?
Isn't that a cool picture?? That's the front view, by the way. Can you see it? It took me a second, but once you see it it's really cool! (Kind of like a "Magic Eye" picture) I think it's much better than this front view at 18 weeks...
You can really see the shape of his chin though in both the pics! So cute!! My friend Stacey says it's my chin... I wonder if he'll have a dimple in his chin like Mommy too! I think that's much cuter on boys than girls... (And he is definitely still a boy.... once again he was flaunting it, the tech laughed.... I'm a little worried!)
The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. He's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he's born and takes that first gulp of air. And he's continuing to put on baby fat. He now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel. If you're having a boy, his testicles are beginning to descend into his scrotum — a trip that will take about two to three days.
P.S I uploaded 2 other ultrasound pics on my "Ultrasound Photos" page (in the right-hand bar or you can click here).
P.P.S Don't forget to vote on my poll also in the right-hand bar! Do you think Floodling will arrive early, late, or right on time??
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Hi Guys!
Hi guys!!!
Surprised? I almost was! I almost completely forgot that I had an appointment today, which is totally unlike me because I'm usually counting down the days until each appointment where we get to see our Floodling. My mind has been like a sieve lately though, as I hear is pretty typical. Thankfully one morning this week it occured to me that it had been almost a month since we'd found out we were having a boy... which meant it was about time for another appointment with the high risk docs.
I have to see the high risk doctor monthly for scans to check Floodling's growth. Because of my CF and the possibility that I'm not getting enough oxygen they want to make sure that he's growing properly.
Thankfully things look great right now! He weighs about one pound, which is completely average for 22 weeks. In fact I got my "Your Belly at 22 Weeks" e-mail today which told me he should weigh 1 pound exactly! I asked this time how they get the weight- she said it's based on an estimate from measurements of the head, belly, and thigh.
Everything else checked out too... cerival length, location of the placenta, amount of amniotic fluid were all great. If you haven't figured it out by now I am by nature a worry wart, and having been through one miscarriage already really doesn't help that aspect of my personality. It was great to hear that all those things were normal because at various points in time I have convinced myself that they are not.... yeah... I'm great at doing that :P
I did find out that Floodling is kind of upside down down right now. She said it was nothing to be concerned about, but asked me if I have had to go to the bathroom a lot lately.... and I totally have! The urge to pee was pretty bad up until the beginning of the second trimester when it seemed to ease a little (I've read that's normal... as baby kind of "ascends" into the abdomen he doesn't press on the bladder as much any more, until the space is just too limited again). Well, lately it seems that I have to go all the time! The other day I noted that I went three times within one hour! The urge seems to be worse if I'm up and walking around as opposed to sitting- I can hardly make it through a half hour walk at the gym without needing to run to the restroom! The tech said that he'll hopefully (for my sake) wiggle himself out of that position eventually.
And just in case you were wondering, we're still 100% sure he's a boy. Unsurprisingly I started to worry about what would happen if they were wrong last time. I hear stories of that happening, and people on a forum I read post pics asking if the "stuff" is actually a penis, or just the umbilical cord. Well, the first thing the tech this time said was "oh yes, he's definitely a boy! You can see the scrotum and penis right there!". So I'm pretty convinced now that we're 100% okay going ahead and painting in blues and what not.
On a side note, I'm wondering how long my belly button is going to last... and by that I mean how long it will remain "innie" before it "pops out". It feels so tight lately and there's really hardly a belly button there... it's so shallow! Curious if my mom "popped" too.... I hear not everyone does.
Another foot pic... I can't resist! Baby feet are too cute! I think this is what has been bumping my belly button lately!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
It's a Boy!
As such I figured the blog could use a facelift!
We finally know! And I can say I was more surprised than I thought I'd be! I honestly thought I didn't have suspicions one way or another as to whether I thought we were having a boy or a girl, but apparently the back of my mind was saying girl and I didn't really realize it! Apparently most everyone else was saying girl too as the vote was 64% in favor of girl! Big surprise today!
So the scan went really well! Everything looks good.... our little boy looks happy and healthy! The doc said he can't guarantee he'll go to Harvard or Yale but things look great. Jason said it doesn't matter anyway, as long as he has a good golf swing. ;)
I could actually tell before the technician told us for sure that it was a boy. As she went through checking out each part she was showing us his legs and thigh bones. Then she moved on without saying anything, but I was pretty sure I had seen "something there".
Sure enough, when she did go back to show us, I was right! She said he had everything hanging out, like he was showing it off and proud to be a boy! She said there was no denying it... we could see that all the pieces were there. :)
It was really cool to see our baby like that and not just the blob we've been seeing! We could see him moving his arms and legs around! The technician even kind of "zoomed in" on his head and I could see him opening and closing his mouth! Practicing "sucking" as the weekly updates have said... that was awesome! She wanted to get a good profile pic of the whole body, but he wouldn't sit still long enough. One second he'd lay flat then the next his feet were up by his head... it was kind of funny.
Things are definitely starting to feel more real now! And I have to admit I have already been doing a few preliminary searches for bedding and other items now that we know! I couldn't resist!
We finally know! And I can say I was more surprised than I thought I'd be! I honestly thought I didn't have suspicions one way or another as to whether I thought we were having a boy or a girl, but apparently the back of my mind was saying girl and I didn't really realize it! Apparently most everyone else was saying girl too as the vote was 64% in favor of girl! Big surprise today!
So the scan went really well! Everything looks good.... our little boy looks happy and healthy! The doc said he can't guarantee he'll go to Harvard or Yale but things look great. Jason said it doesn't matter anyway, as long as he has a good golf swing. ;)
I could actually tell before the technician told us for sure that it was a boy. As she went through checking out each part she was showing us his legs and thigh bones. Then she moved on without saying anything, but I was pretty sure I had seen "something there".
Sure enough, when she did go back to show us, I was right! She said he had everything hanging out, like he was showing it off and proud to be a boy! She said there was no denying it... we could see that all the pieces were there. :)
It was really cool to see our baby like that and not just the blob we've been seeing! We could see him moving his arms and legs around! The technician even kind of "zoomed in" on his head and I could see him opening and closing his mouth! Practicing "sucking" as the weekly updates have said... that was awesome! She wanted to get a good profile pic of the whole body, but he wouldn't sit still long enough. One second he'd lay flat then the next his feet were up by his head... it was kind of funny.
Things are definitely starting to feel more real now! And I have to admit I have already been doing a few preliminary searches for bedding and other items now that we know! I couldn't resist!
Here are some of the peeks we got of our Baby Boy Floodling!
Our baby's side profile!
His foot (towards the top) that I'm sure I will be feeling more of!
He's definitely a boy!
A kind of eerie front view, but you can see the already cute belly!! (Head is on the left, belly on the right... you can see his forehead, eye sockets, and chin shape!!!)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)