Today we were treated to quite a show by our little one-to-be… He gave us a thumbs up (see picture above,) yawned, hiccuped, jiggled all over the place and showed us how he can kick Melissa’s bladder like Mike Tyson beating the crap out of a punching bag. As if this behavior wasn’t enough to make it evident, we were also shown enough anatomy that we can say with some authority that he is a boy.

I wanted to put some video up here, but they would not let us videotape it. Normally I’d understand that liability and whatever else can be an issue, but I’m curious as to why my sister-in-law is able to purchase her own DVD of her ultrasound. Depends on the hospital apparently!

Here is an additional image. You can make out his nose (which looks more like Melissa’s to me already…) pointing to the upper right and the general shape of his noggin. My very cool neighbor Susan told me that when you see a baby you immediately know what to name it… I told Melissa that these recent images lead me to believe that “Squishy” would be fitting.

-Daran

We had my sister-in-law (Melissa’s sister) Melanie and our nephew Connor over for a few days last week, and we all had a blast. We went all over town together and got to see many of Grand Rapids’ greatest sites… but imagine my surprise (and pride!) when my nephew figured out how to play a race car game at the age of 4.

Here’s a pic of me taking a break from mowing the lawn (nice clothes, D :-\) to get a couple laps in against the inevitable winner, Connor!

Is he giving us a cheesy thumbs up? Or showing off his race car thumbs of steel? You decide!

Oh come on, the baby page couldn’t stay GREY. You knew it wouldn’t last, right?

New blogger software and a borrowed theme with a new banner, and voila! Everybody’s happy!

Also, you can now add comments to the entries here by clicking “Comments” below the blog entry… w00t!

-Daran

The doctor moved the wand around on Melissa’s belly and warned us “Now usually we find the mom’s first…” But her eyes lit slightly as a persistent beat drummed through the device’s speakers. “… or sometimes not! That’s the baby’s!”

A grin split from ear-to-ear on our faces as Melissa and I glanced at each other briefly, and the realization hit home: Somebody’s in there.

I tried to record the experience of hearing our baby’s heartbeat the first time, but in my happiness managed to confuse the green “pause” icon with the red “record” icon and not commit a thing to tape. Why the good folks at Sony would think green means stop and red means go, I have no idea. I’ll get it next time, however.

The doctor also said that next time she’d let me try to find the heartbeat, and issued this like a challenge. Tish! Has my video game expertise not proceeded me, Doctor?

-Daran