boogie on down

So the Softball World Series was a lot of fun but,alas, the Pirates did not make it to the final game. Chris pitched the whole game and did a great job but a combination of errors and mishaps were just too much for the team to overcome. But a good time was had by all and they may begin a new season in a couple of weeks.

Today I went to the genetic counselor and after a meeting in her office where she entailed the hundreds of thousands of defects, genetic and otherwise, I got to get my longest ultrasound yet. During this procedure, the tech has to measure so many different things so it took about a half hour for her to do all her little things, during which time I got to see Kumar karate-kick me and generally break dance in my belly. It's incredible to me that I cannot feel him after seeing just how active and crazy he is in there. The tech said that he's just still so small (a little over 2 inches) and in so much fluid that it's too early to feel him but I'm kind of scared of how powerful this kid seems to be. While right now I am dying to feel something, I know that in a couple of months I am going to be cursing his brute strength and energy.

The length of the baby was on target for being exactly 12 weeks today (YAY!)and she said that everything else looked very good so from here we wait for the blood results in a week, and in a month I get to go back and do it all again and then we can relax. It seems silly to me to have to go back after a good result and normally I would say the one set of tests were enough but my insurance covers it and it's another ultrasound!!!! Who turns down a free ultrasound?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I did get some more ultrasound pictures which I will post as soon as I (meaning Chris) gets them scanned (I would say over the weekend because he has been working so late every day this week) but in the meantime I would like to share with you-

The View From Up Here:

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Tomorrow I go for my Nuchal Translucency screening and while I am excited for the ultrasound part of it, I am scared about the whole idea behind it.
We are going into this just assuming that everything is fine because honestly there is such a small chance of some sort of genetic defect, but it's still nerve wracking.

In the meantime, I'm on my way now to watch Chris play in the World Series of Softball.

Updates tomorrow.
Maybe even pictures.

the most wonderful day of the week

Chris joined a softball league and they play one day a week on Key Biscayne. It's a good thing for many reasons, but the main one is he actually gets to leave the office one day a week before 7:00.

That may seem like no big deal to some, but believe me when I say that most days I see my husband for 5 minutes in the morning (if I am not sleeping in because after all, Momma needs her beauty sleep.) (I know there is a rapidly approaching expiration to this excuse, what with wishing to have a baby in the house because I hear those little things really don't care much about beauty sleep. Or excuses.)

Anyway- where was I? Oh yes, I only see my husband a few minutes in the morning and then if I'm lucky, from 7:30 til we both pass out around 11. Or 10. (God, we sound old and boring. )

So, I went to watch him play softball this week and it was really fun. The weather is still pretty nice and spring-like and it actually got a bit chilly once the sun went down. Maybe because the field is about 100 yards away from this:

Ah yes- the joys of living in Miami. We'll revisit this idea when hurricane season gets here. But until then, we have softball. And kite surfing.

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