together we're heavy

i spent the day creating our baby registry. it was fun! my friend angie also has a pair of these for her son. i must have them! i looked yesterday to see if they had any with the union jack on them...and guess what? they're only sold in australia and they don't ship to the u.s. :( i will hunt them down and find them though, because baby ____ will have them.
last night we watched the sonogram video. it was so neat! i know no one but us will probably ever enjoy it, but i thought it was so cool. we think he might suck his thumb! isn't that cute??? elliott says that he has my chin and cheeks. :) we could see so many details...hands, feet, etc. this little guy is a mover too. he never stopped the whole time.
it's pretty cool knowing the sex of the baby. now we can actually put a name with a "face". this has really made the pregnancy and the idea of a baby so much more real. needless to say, we're happy!

it's a BOY! :)
this is what i have been suspecting, but it was still nice to find out for sure. the sono itself seemed to go really fast. i want to get home & see the video so i can see him again! according to all of his measurements, everything looks good! that was great to know.
so, if the 85% girl is correct, i say we hook up an arranged marriage! what do you say? i'll call you tonight & tell you more.

if we can indeed find out the sex of baby seymour, i'll post here later today! :) send good thoughts to the baby and tell it not to be shy...

i've started retaining more water in my hands over the past month or so, but yesterday, i noticed a startling phenomenon that does not make me happy AT ALL. my feet are getting bigger! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
did i mention that i already have the biggest feet on the planet (size 10)? not even my big running shoes feel comfortable today. :( i also noticed last night that my normally very skinny feet are a little swollen at night! normally when i flex my toes, i can see the bones from my ankle to my toes. not so last night. i could see them from ankle to about mid foot. this made me quite sad. the best is yet to come in the foot department, i fear.
wedding rings, which i contemplated having resized smaller before i got pregnant now fit just fine. i'm taking them off at night so they aren't so uncomfortable in the AM. not that i can't take them off or anything, i just don't like tight rings. i told e the other day that we're gonna have to get me a big fake once they really don't fit. this makes me sad too because i love my rings.
olivia, the other night i had a dream that you were told at your next appointment that you were having a boy. i have had three dreams that our baby's a girl, but i still think it's a boy for some reason...i'm confused! :) oh, and it kept me up in the night kicking! be careful what you wish for, right?

we were geared up to take bradley classes starting in early january that would last until feb. 27. this made me a little nervous, since i'm due around the first of march, but i thought, "oh well, we'll try it anyway." well, this weekend, i was looking at our hospital website to see what parenting & breastfeeding classes they offer. i realized that they recommend being done with all of your classes 3-4 weeks before your due date. huh. they offer a weekend lamaze class that costs $70. the breastfeeding class is $30 and the parenting class, $40. the bradley classes are a whopping $225. we could take 3 different classes and still spend less than this ONE (granted, 6 week) class! i'm going to ask the doctor what she thinks. i am also leaning toward the lamaze because i am not opposed to drugs, and i think the bradely classes are going to encourage no drugs...i don't want to feel like a loser if i opt for an epidural. i also want to get a hospital tour (included in the lamaze class) and get a feel for how the hospital does things. i'm not going to get that at the bradley classes.
i'm also rethinking the diaper situation. while i care about the environment, i also care about saving my sanity...plus i read that the chemicals that cloth diapers put into our water supply isn't great either, and the cost, if using a diaper service vs. getting diapers at costco is not going to be significant...oh the dilemmas. e seems really sold on cloth diapers, but i think when push comes to shove, he will like the ease of disposable. i'm going to have to research this a bit more.

i wonder if every pregnant person feels this way or if it's just me, but i feel like i can't really get close to this baby until i meet it personally and everything goes ok. i think worrying that something will go wrong before then is preventing me from really wanting to bond with the baby. i think it may just be my worrying nature. i have a good feeling that everything will be fine, but there is always that feeling in the back of my head that says not to become too attached, because you never know. i feel bad that i feel this way. i also feel lost about what we need, when to get a pediatrician lined up, and how to take care of a brand new baby. i guess i'm starting to feel the countdown now that this pregnancy is 1/2 over, and it's causing me to be panicky. i'm really excited, don't get me wrong, but i'm also really nervous. i babysat constantly when i was younger, but i have never been around a brand new baby 24/7...i need encouragement!!!

i am feeling the baby moving FOR CERTAIN as i type this! it was pummeling me for about 30 seconds! what a great feeling. :)

i think i have been feeling the baby moving around, but i'm not sure. once it was definite, but the past few days, every so often i'll just feel a bubbly feeling. i have started to get somewhat of a line below my bellybutton. i also noticed that my lower abdomen is harder on one side than the other...what is that about?
phase 1 of room reshuffle begins tuesday when they will install a phone jack in our room so we can put the tv in there (tivo requires a phone line), then move the computer into the living room, freeing up the baby's room for a makeover of trading spaces proportions. i hope i have a pic of what this room looked like before i started taking down the cloth wallpaper...a monstrosity!
the other night i woke up on my back and felt like there was a bowling ball on my stomach...i guess the baby's growing! :)

so it has been handed down from brian wilson himself (of beach boys fame) that the first song the baby should hear is "God only knows". feel free to read the whole story on my other blog. :)
i haven't felt the baby move yet, but i have been feeling the organs/intestines/whatever else shifting around and it does not feel good! in the middle of the night, i sneezed and it woke me up because it hurt so bad in my side. elliott was concerned that it had somehow hurt the baby, but i assured him that i read that this happens and it is normal. i just didn't expect it to be that painful. hopefully that will subside some?!?! i have started getting up much more gingerly after several times of getting up too quickly and it causing pain (nothing as bad as the sneeze). i am starting to feel a lot more pregnant and big.
now that we know the baby can hear, we've been talking to it more. this morning, e sang the love boat theme song to it. what a great childhood this kid will have...it'll be like the 70s, but with all of the modern coveniences of the 2000s-directv, ipods, cds, etc...what a life!