Archive for January, 2007

Here’s some of the pictures from our second trimester screening. During this exam, which takes about 90 minutes, they measure just about every bone in the babies body, the size of the internal organs, heart rate, everything. It’s really cool to watch. We were lucky, because baby was moving around a lot, and they were able to get all their measurements pretty quick.

Oh and if you haven’t already figured it out, we’re 19 weeks pregnant.

In this first picture, you can clearly see an arm, with an extended index finger.

From New Baby

These are the feet, taken from the bottom looking up.  It’s too soon to count toes, but we did count fingers (I got 10).

From New Baby

A profile of the face

From New Baby

Here you can see the face, and the spine

From New Baby

This profile looks like the baby is a duck.  I’m told that’s normal.  If you’re a duck.

From New Baby

I’m driving today, and the person ahead of me was going ridiculously slow. Everyone knows that the proper thing to do in that situation is to politely tailgate. So I did. After about 5 seconds, I see the guy in front of me wag his finger in the rear view mirror in the “uh uh uh” side-to-side motion, as if to give me a stern warning that I am doing something naughty. But he made the finger motion really fast! And instantly my nintendo-honed reflexes kicked in, because that reminded me of King Hippo from Punch out.

King hippo would make this really rapid motion, I can’t remember exactly what he did but it was your cue to get out of the way, and punch him 3 times in the gut while he pulled up his pants after every hit. You finished the job with a nice roundhouse to the face. Or something like that. Road Rage meets Punch out. I wonder if the guy in front of me had two band aids crisscrossed over his navel. Because that would have made me extremely happy.