28 weeks

for the visual learners

Questions preggies ask

n: Preggie ladies have non-stop questions running through their brains. They vary greatly from "What do I look like from behind?" to "Did I just smush my baby?" (not to mention a lot of daunting ones we try not to think about). Here are just a few questions that just don't seem to stop:

-Would I be able to write a short, yet profitable book about heartburn?
-Where is the closest public restroom and how disgusting will it be?
-Exactly how smushed are my internal organs?
-How will I ever find enough room to eat Thanksgiving dinner?
-Why do I suddenly have a pimple on my eyelid?
-Where can I buy tennis shoes without laces?
-Will these broken blood vessels on my face ever go away?
-What exactly is taking so long? (this refers to just about anything, anywhere.)
-Did I forget something? (again, this refers to just about anything, anywhere.)
-What is the word I am looking for...?
-If I could eat anything for dinner what would it be?
-Tums or Rolaids?
-If I don't continually put oil on my belly, will it just suddenly crack open?
-How am I going to be able to breathe in a couple of months?
-If I can't lay flat on my back, is the backstroke bad too?

and naturally,
-What is my baby going to look like?

little miss giggle

J: Not that she wasn't before, but N and I have noticed that she is laughing more. A lot more. How's that for an unexpected symptom of pregnancy!

She laughs over dinner. She giggles in the morning. She even chuckled a bit when I found her in the kitchen taking a swig of lemonade from the bottle at 2 this morning.

She told me she thinks its how her body is releasing tension. (This is infinitely better than the crying-to-release-tension tactic her body was testing out the first few months.)

I can't even begin to express how deeply I appreciate this.

And really, its too bad this pregnancy thing has to end—I'm starting to really enjoy it.

sonogram #2—video

J: Who wants to see a movie?

Old wives say

J: We've been threatening to write this for a while. So, without further ado:

HOW TO DETERMINE THE SEX OF YOUR CHILD
as told by random people and relatives

"If you're carrying low and wide its a girl, or high and narrow its a boy"

"Tie a gold ring on a string and let it hang over her stomach—if it swings in a line its a boy, if its a circle you've got a girl."

"Listen to the heart rate. A high heart rate usually is a girl."

"If you crave fruits and sour items its a girl. Want junk food? Its a boy."

and then there's the chinese calendar—not even close to understanding how this one is supposed to work.


Hey people: if I wanted to know, I would've found out.