Notes from Daddy

Though Julie has been doing most of the work until now (e.g., finding baby stuff on craigslist, carrying the baby, ...), don't think that the daddy-to-be has been idle. I've taken my homework very seriously, as you can tell from the picture below. So far, I've learned many important things, such as how a fetus breathes, not to name our baby after people famous enough not to need a surname (Santa, Elvis, Tarzan or Roseanne), and that I finally have an excuse to spend long hours in a toy store.

Grandparents

We're in Toronto visiting my parents. They might be even more excited than us about the baby. Thanks to their generosity, the baby will never be naked or illiterate...

It's a boy!

We had our 18th week ultrasound on Monday. Unfortunately, no nice profile pictures, but they did a full anatomy scan and caught a lot of great pictures (our favorite is the one of the baby's foot (row 4, column 2), followed closely by the the one of a hand doing the "thumbs up" gesture (row 2, column 2) ). Don't feel bad if you can't make out anything in these images (the technician's annotations are somewhat helpful, especially the big arrow that says "Boy" (row 2, column 1) ).

First pictures of my belly

Since I was all dressed up for Lauren's 30th birthday party, Eric and I took some pictures of me and my belly last night... This is for everyone who's been asking if I'm showing yet... I'd say it's a resounding yes!

First Emotional Meltdown of my Pregnancy

I had my first major emotional meltdown of my pregnancy yesterday: one of my labmates moved a mirror in my laser table setup at work and I started to cry. Had to go find Eric so that he could hold me while I cried big sobbing tears. It was insane. Eric and I were both laughing the whole time, but still I was bawling.

I'm also at the point of wanting to put sticks in the spokes of people who bike on sidewalks when I'm walking. I have to thank Christine for putting this thought in my head back four years ago when she was pregnant.