Quick Catch-up

Nothing exciting has really happened between April and now. A few things though are worth mentioning.

• Jen was measuring larger than they would have liked, so she took the gestational diabetes tests. Both came back negative for gestational diabetes. They are still keeping an eye on her, though. We hope it's just the way she's carrying.
• We had to go into the hospital one Monday afternoon because some weird stuff was going on. They hooked her up for observation. When it was all said and done, it turned out that she was a little under-hydrated. That was a relief.
• We've had two more ultrasounds since April. One was done by Mom and the other was done up here. I'm not going to post pictures because we're more than likely going to have another ultrasound done this weekend.
• We have started to feel the baby kick these past 2 1/2 months. That's been pretty neat. A little weird; but still neat. And he's getting stronger which has caused Jen some discomfort.
• We registered for stuff.
• We've gotten some stuff. Plus, our neighbors gave us a changing table and a crib. Unfortunately the crib is broken. We won't be able to use it.
• We've come up with a name. More on that later.

And I think that's about it. I can't think of any other milestones in the past 2 1/2 months. If I do, I'll just pretend like they didn't happen. You'll never know the difference.

What is it?

As I mentioned in the last post, the organization that has been taking care of our natal stuff offers free ultrasounds. And as in all pregnancies, the time came to find out what we were having.

As you can tell from the rest of the blog, we're having a boy (sorry, no suprises for those who didn't know). After we found out, which was on April 28th, we spent 4 hours that afternoon in Borders' coffeeshop looking up names and sounding them out trying to find the one name - out of 110,000 that we were comfortable with saying for the rest of our lives.

We had had a bunch of girl names picked out that we liked; we weren't really expecting to have a boy. We were in a bit of a pickle. Needless to say, we didn't figure it out that day.

A little bit of humor from the exam room, though. After the tech did the ultrasound, the doctor came in to "verify" things (I guess). The only thing he said to us was, "And there's a little something extra for ya." Ha!