eeet's aliiiiiiiive

so for a week or two i've been feeling weird little tickles that i thought just *might* be the baby moving around, but this weekend i finally felt a definite kick. you know those little fisher price vacuums with the balls in them that pop when your kid pushes them around? it felt like a little toy vacuum ball pop.
in other news, we painted some furniture for grayboy's room - i was originally going to go with orange and gray but ended up liking the green/brown a lot better. the green is a little lime-ier than i was thinking so i may re-paint the green bits but here's what we've done so far -



(i just noticed that this one is all weird and pixel-y, hmm)

we're going to use it as a changing table - the changing pad fits on it wonderfully.

and then a nightstand/mini-bookcase -



(also pixel-y...my pictures are generally not like that - must have had a weird setting in my export from lightroom. i will investigate)

i was going to post some images of some gifts we've gotten from our parents but i think i'll wait and re-export so i don't have all that weird pixel nonsense happening.

oh and you voters are mean!!! apparently grayboy is going to be late and huge. awesome.

19 weeks

Big week this week!

Gremlin is starting to designate different areas of his brain for the senses - hearing, taste, smell, sight, touch. He may be able to hear us now...I suppose I'm going to have to start watching my language. Hm.

He weighs about 8.5 oz and is about 6 inches long; babycenter.com compared that to a tomato but that seems like a damn big tomato. His arms and legs are the right proportions to each other, his kidneys continue to generate urine and he's starting to get some hair on his head.

We had an ultrasound today and had a great ultrasound tech - she actually made me laugh until i cried at one point.

Pretty early on she could see the sex and remarked 'well, you're right to be calling it 'him'' (ya, a boy!!!! hoooray, what fun! of course a girl would have been perfect as well.)...I turned to Nate and said 'a boy! we're having a boy!' - he had completely missed her comment and was sooo confused as to how I had figured it out. He then asked the tech 'how do you know it's a boy' and she shot right back with 'because of the penis' which is when i laughed hysterically for a good minute, it was awesome. later on in the process he (the baby, not nate) mooned us and we got a great printout of the penis in question.

so a boy! good job, voting majority. I had to buy a few blue things today but feel like i kept it under control for the most part.

i suppose i'll have to come up with some new polls now...hmmmm.

we have pics from the ultrasound but need to get them scanned. i'll put them up as soon as they are ready!