27 weeks

Slowly getting bigger.






I don't think Miles understands what is going on. We've tried explaining to him. The only part he seems happy about is there will be someone around to drop food for him. Fat boy loves his food.

We are having a baby....SQUIRREL

I keep having stranger and stranger dreams. I thought it would be fun to share one of my recent favorites.
At first I kept dreaming we were having a baby boy. This has shifted over the last few weeks to dreaming about a baby girl. Then the other night...Patrick and I were in the delivery room and I gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby squirrel (gender undetermined).


Patrick and I were so happy and we thought it was the most adorable baby squirrel we had ever seen. It cried like a human baby but chattered away like a squirrel when not crying. (In the dream it did not bother us at all that I had given birth to a squirrel). All of our friends and family came to see our broad-tailed baby in the hospital and everyone was so happy for us. Everything was fine until we brought Baby Squirrel (we were still picking names, but "Octavius" was a front runner) home and Miles and Ella immediately began snifing the car seat--yes, it was in a car seat...safety first! There was initially a lot of sniffing and whining on their part....then the dream took a sharp turn downhill when they chased and killed Octavius the Squirrel. Needless to say I woke up in a panic and haven't gotten over it yet.

25 Weeks

This is what baby & I look like at 25 weeks. I'm definitely getting bigger and finding some movements are a lot harder to do...especially bending at the waist (revelation!). Baby doesn't really like being folded in half.

New baby pictures

Here is what Baby looks like at 19 weeks. I think with the eyes all black it's a little creepy. I'm also glad the technician labeled the parts so we can tell what we are looking at. On the screen when Baby was moving around it was really easy for us to tell all the body parts. Baby even waved to us!!! We saw both hands and both feet. They are already cute.


The second picture is the profile and baby flipped over for that. So it's head is on the right side of the screen. I think it looks like Patrick in this picture. I really like it's nose. Patrick helped cover my eyes so we could wait to find out if Baby is a boy or girl. It was so tempting to find out since the technician could tell the sex of the baby but we are going to hold out for a big surprise at the end.

We should have had a puppy, instead!

Sarah hasn't been able to bend in the middle very well. And she's experiencing some muscle fatigue. To make her feel better, we joked about how we should have decided to get another dog instead of having a kid. At least I think she was joking.

Reasons that puppies are better than babies:

Puppies are house broken in, like, 2 weeks. Babies will gleefully soil themselves for years.

No woman has ever been laid up nauseous or with a back ache because she getting a puppy...unless it is some type of evil magic puppy, in which case we should probably not discuss it--the puppy might hear us!

Puppies will not poo where they sleep. Babies are not quite as discriminating. Babies need to learn some freaking foresight!

When a woman tells someone she is getting a puppy, no one slaps the smokes out of the woman's mouth.

You can use whatever foul language you wish around puppies, they won't embarrass you at your parents' house or Target later on.

If I show up at the kennel in cut-offs and a Hell's Bells t-shirt, no one refuses to give me my puppy until my wife shows up.

If your puppy runs, trips, falls and you laugh...people laugh with you. If it happens to your baby and you laugh, people gasp and someone calls DSS.

If my puppy whines, I can put him outside while I take a nap...well, I guess, in this case, it really isn't different at all, is it?

You can name a puppy anything you like. A baby will grow to hate you if you name it "Artemis the sprite" or "Mr. Booby."

You get to pick the cutest puppy. The ugly baby is yours whether you want it or not.

Jamie suggested this one: "People don't ask behind your back if the puppy is really yours or not."