The blob is coming soon, hence all the blob related posts. I’m sure once he’s here it won’t get much better, sorry (well not really, it’s my blog about my boring life so I can write about whatever I want too).

The crib and changing table arrived on Friday, yay! So now he has somewhere else to sleep (he had a co-sleeper and a pack and play already, he’ll probably start in the co-sleeper (bassinet) and end up in the crib when I can’t sleep with him right next to me. The crib looks really nice and the changing table is decent. We’re still waiting on his dresser, it is suppose to arrive sometime the middle of this month, so hopefully it will be here before he is. Overall though his room is almost all finished, yay!

We had the breastfeeding class last Thursday, best class of the three we signed up for. The person leading it was knowledgeable, the info seemed relevant and useful to have, and overall it didn’t feel like a waste like the other two classes we did. Definitely a nice change. Oh and for once I wasn’t the one with the furthest out due date, though I was second furthest out (but there were 2 people there due 1 day before me and 1 due 2 days before me, so I really wasn’t that far out at all).

My last OB/GYN appointment went fine, I’m down to weekly appointments, eek we’re getting close. I get another Ultrasound on Thursday because they want to check on him and see how big or small he is at this point. I’ll be 36 and a half weeks then so we’ll see how he looks and such.

Otherwise, we’ve been working on the house. We put up some shelves this weekend, bought baskets for various places, tried to put up the new closet system and realized that the master closet butts the firewall, which is a pain, since now we need to find cinder block drill bits (fun or something). Dan also put together the baby swing last night and it looks good. So hopefully we’re mostly ready for the blob whenever he decides to appear.

In other baby news, we think we’re going to try cloth diapers. We both sort of wanted to use them from the beginning but got talked out of them by various relatives. We decided we still want to try and see how they work, even though everyone claims they are a lot more work. So we ordered a couple to see how they work, and figure if they don’t we’ll go disposable since we haven’t made a full investment in cloth diapers yet, until we see how they go.

Other then that not much new going on here, just getting everything ready for the blob to appear.

Well I took my 3 hour Gestational Diabetes test and didn’t pass. Sigh, I was really close to passing to, if my blood sugar had been one lower after 3 hours I would have passed (it needed to be under 140 it was at 140). I got my testing kit and such and it is tons of fun to prick my fingers 4 times a day, really, highlight of the day right now…

In other baby related news, my baby shower was on Saturday. It was nice, had lots of fun, saw a bunch of my relatives and got a bunch of nice gifts for the baby. I love the scrapbook album my aunt made me, it is great.

My Mom came to the house on Sunday (after the shower on Saturday). My sister was here for about 10 minutes too till she had to go to the airport to catch her plane home. It was snowing Sunday so she didn’t get to spend much time here. My Mom has been here since Sunday though. Sunday we had plans, but because of the storm we didn’t get anything done. Monday we went shopping, bought some IKEA furniture for the living room and dining room and a bunch of baby stuff, that we needed for the blob. We also went out Tuesday and bought a couple of nice carpets to put over the wood floors we just had installed on the first floor. They are really nice, atty picked them up. My Mom also cleaned the house some getting our bedroom in order (we’ve been procrastinating about it) and worked on the blob’s room some though there isn’t much that can be done in there until the furniture arrives. She also painted the front hall and the dining room, and has decided our walls suck (which isn’t a surprise since they do). She leaves tonight so we’ll have a fairly quiet weekend, though we’ll be putting together the IKEA stuff and setting up the living room and dining room.

Other then that not much new going on.

From my sister. She is coming to the baby shower, but since she has to fly up from Atlanta she shipped the gift to us. It is our travel system (stroller and carseat combo). It is really nice, but really really big. You don’t realize how big they are in the store since they are surrounded by a bunch of other ones, but in the dining room it is much more obvious. It is really nice though and we need to check and make sure the carseat fits in my car correctly then we’ll throw out the box.

Other then that not much else going on, had my Midwife appointment on Friday and a measuring about a week ahead so just right. the baby is already head down, which is nice, hopefully he won’t shift in the next 8 weeks.

We went shopping to IKEA but they were out of the pieces we needed, hopefully they’ll have them in soon. Did a bunch of other errands as well. Other then that, big storm suppose to be coming through the area starting this evening, so we’ll see how bad it is. Otherwise I live a pretty boring life right now.

So I went to take the test yesterday, wasn’t expecting 3 vials of blood to be drawn, but I can deal with it. Got the results today, I failed. Blegh that means I have to go back next week for the 3 hour test and 4 blood draws that is just going to make my day (plus the whole fasting from midnight till it is over thing is going to make me sooo happy). Sigh, oh well, hopefully I’ll pass the 3 hour one and not have to worry about it again until the next time I end up spawning.

Well we think we’ve decided on the blob’s name. We are 99% certain it will be Desmond Kiran, we’re still discussing last names though because we really aren’t sure what we want to do there. Most likely he’ll end up as Singhal, but could end up as a Rosenberg or even something completely new, we just haven’t decided yet.

The other thing I need to do is come up with a Hebrew name for him. Fortunately there aren’t any relatives he has to be named after, unfortunately this means we need to come up with a Hebrew name for him, without naming him after someone, which would have been easy since then you just use their Hebrew name. *Shrug* that’s life I guess, and I’m quite happy that no one has died that he needs to be named after, so all in all finding a Hebrew name for him is a good thing. Now I just need to figure out what it will be.

Saw the midwife yesterday, everything seems to be doing decently. I am measuring a bit big, 29 weeks, rather then the 25 and a half weeks I am, but the midwife wasn’t too worried since the baby looked good at the ultrasound earlier this month. Other then that I got the drink I get to drink for the gestational diabetes test in a couple of weeks, the first one is just drink the drink and get your blood drawn in an hour, hopefully I’ll pass it so I won’t have to do the 3 hour one, which sounds like a lot less fun.

Other then the baby measuring big everything else was good, I go back in 4 weeks and after that I am on a 2 week schedule, which makes the whole baby coming soonish seem even closer.

Had my second Ultrasound Monday. It went well, we saw the blob again, I’ll post the pictures later. They got the heart measurements they needed, they couldn’t get palate measurements, but we don’t have to go back because they may never get them. This is good since going into downtown Baltimore to John Hopkin’s Medical sucks. It is just a pain to get too.

Overall, everything looks good though. We didn’t get another look to confirm the blob is male, but since the first tech was positive I’m not too worried about it. We may do a 3d/4d ultrasound at the end of January beginning of Feb if we do we’ll confirm he’s male then, but otherwise we’ll stick with the male tag till he appears.

So everything seems good with the baby, we are still waiting on the list of middle names from my in-laws so that we can finalize his name, but at the moment it is most likely to be Desmond somethinghindihere.

Okay this post should have been up earlier this week as well, but that’s life.

Anyways I arrived home on Monday after Thanksgiving, and on Tuesday my Mom headed up to DC for a conference. We didn’t actually see her again till Thursday, yep a big whole 3 days of not seeing my Mom, I am so deprived. Anyways on Thursday she and Dan took the train back to the house and picked up K on their way home. I think we went out to Longhorn for dinner (sounds right at least) since I wanted a salad and baked potato. Friday she was here and Dan was at work. She had a conference call in the morning and in the afternoon we went out to Arundal Mills Mall. We looked at baby furniture at Burlington Coat Factory and decided we weren’t all that impressed by their stuff. We picked up a few baby outfits as well (shocking isn’t it?). Went out to dinner at Melting Pot in the evening which was nice.

Saturday was big shopping day, Mom was up so we could figure out baby room furniture. So we relaxed in the morning again and then headed to my in-laws. Picked them up and all headed to a Baby Specialty shop. We spent awhile there and found a couple of pieces of furniture we liked. Dan really liked one set and it was nice so we decided to go with it. Well sort of. The baby’s room is small, one could even say tiny, it is around 9ft by 8ft. So we didn’t like the long dresser, it didn’t have a lot of storage and it would take up a lot of room. We loved the crib though, so we got the tall 5 drawer dresser with it, which holds more and should fit in the room better. We also got a changing table, which is nice, not sure it is needed, but it will likely be useful so we’ll see. The furniture is by Sorelle and the collection is Chantelle, we got it in the antique oak finish which is nice, not too light or too dark.

After choosing and buying the furniture we went to another baby store, and then out to dinner. We then headed back to the in-law’s house and hung out for a bit before heading home. Dropped my Mom off at the airport Sunday morning and ran some errands after that.

Overall it was a nice weekend with my Mom and we got the furniture ordered, which is good since it will take 14 weeks or so for it to be delivered which puts us in early March about a month before the blob is due. Apparently baby furniture takes awhile to get. Now I won’t see my Mom for a month or so, which isn’t a huge deal, either, I’ll probably see her twice in January though it may be once in Jan and once in Feb, who knows, they haven’t decided on the date of my baby shower yet.

Here are the ultrasound pictures we got from the Ultrasound on Friday. There is a pictures of the baby’s hand, foot (kicking my uterus) and face. Enjoy!

… it’s a boy! We were both hoping for a girl, but we’re happy with a boy too. Everything looked good, I do need to go back in 2 weeks for another ultrasound though because he won’t move so they couldn’t measure his heart.

After the appointment we went to Baby’s R Us and I bought him some clothes, because how could I resist? We did our registry as well, hopefully we aren’t missing too much we’ll need.

We decided that we aren’t certain about our name choice of Desmond so we now have a list of a couple of names we’re debating between. We started with 4, added one and then removed 2. Our list of 5 was Desmond, Griffith, Gareth, Alastair and Sebastian. We are now looking at just Desmond, Griffith and Gareth, I think Gareth is winning right now, but who knows. We want to wait for my father in law to give us a list of Hindu names for middle names, and see what works together best.

Other then that not much new with the blob, other then he is fairly active now and likes to kick a lot. I will post the couple of ultrasound pictures we got once I get around to scanning them.