We went to the in-laws for Christmas and Dan’s Grandmother and one of his aunt’s were there, which doesn’t normally happen. Normally it is just us and my in-laws. It was a nice day, though his Grandmother was a bit weird in her arguments, but it wasn’t a huge deal. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, and it was nice being together for the day. We’ll probably go see my in-laws again sometime in January since we need to get the list from them of Hindi names for the baby’s middle name, they have whittled the list down to about 80 names which should give us a decent number to chose from.

Overall, it was a nice day.

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.

Okay meant to make this post a week or so ago. Thanksgiving was fun, all my sibs but my sister and brother in law where there. 2 of my cousins, my aunt and uncle and my uncle’s sister and her two girls were there too, plus my Grandparents and my Grandmother’s aide, and Judy and Gary (close family friends, we’ve been having Thanksgiving with Judy for 15ish years). It was nice everyone had fun, my Grandmother seemed to be okay with the change in her enviorment. We did eat a bit early since we had to get my Grandparents and the aide back to Atlanta before the aide got off at 8pmish. Overall, it was nice though.

Friday Dan headed home and I headed back to the Lakehouse, it was nice, almost everyone was still there and my sister and brother in law arrived along with his new Wii. The Wii is a lot of fun. We had fun, played games, talked etc. Saturday my Mom and I headed back to Atlanta hung out at my parents house till Monday, was fine. Went out Sunday with Mom, one of my sisters and my cousin, we went to lunch, bought some cute baby clothes and took the two of them to the airport so they could head back, cousin to Connecticut, sister to England.

Overall, it was nice to see everyone again, I’m heading back to Atlanta in January I think because the floors are being done here and I probably shouldn’t be around all the dust and stuff that will be stirred up with them putting tile floors in the bathrooms and wood flooring in the first floor.

A nice trip all and all.

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.

I’ve been feeling the baby move on and off for the past few weeks. Nothing more then little butterfly flutters though. This morning though, I really felt it moving, felt like it was playing the drums in there.

I really wish this worked in the real world. I have been having some annoying backaches recently and my midwife notes they aren’t likely to get any better.

So this weekend we went down to Richmond for my cousin’s Christening. It was nice, got to play with the baby some and see a lot of my relatives. Overall had a good time. The Christening went well and everyone had a good time overall.

Monday Dan started his new job. He didn’t do much work on Monday (well none really), but he did get to sit through welcome to your new job meetings. Yesterday he didn’t have meetings but he still didn’t get to do much since his main computer is not set up right at the moment so he can’t log in. His laptop works but it is windows based so it doesn’t really help him at all except for checking email. So he got to spend yesterday surfing the web mainly. Hopefully he will be able to get his computer working today, probably just in time to leave.

K’s Bordatello (or whatever it is called) shot ran out on Saturday, well sort of, day camp requires it every 6 months unlike the vet which requires it once a year, so when I brought him in for daycamp on Monday I learned this. Figured okay we’ll get him a vet appointment during the week. Unfortunately the Vet at our petsmart doesn’t have an opening till November 7th. Which so isn’t happening. Apparently they don’t have a Vet working there right now, sigh. So we got him an appointment on Friday at Arundal Mills Mall’s Petsmart and he’ll be back in camp on Monday. Which will be nice since he’s going to be hyper by tomorrow and this weekend will be a pain with him not having his second daycamp session this week.

Otherwise not much else going on.