Your belly will get really big and a watermelon will grow inside it!
Or, at least, that APPEARS to be what's happening to me! This pregnancy has made me crave watermelon like its cool. Its so delicious and juicy and sweet. And, when diced into cubes and stored in a container, its just so EASY to sit down and eat the whole darn thing.
I've always loved watermelon, but this is a little beyond the norm. Mmm...Its so delicious that its distracting. I just cut the watermelon yesterday and its G.O.N.E. now. Or will be when I finish slurping the juice out of the bowl.
In other, non-watermelon-related news, we had our BIG ultrasound yesterday. Which, in some ways, was anti-climactic. The tech was nice enough and explained everything he was doing, but he didn't let Daddy and Smidget come back until the very end. By that time I'd been sitting in there for 20 minutes getting to see the little one all by myself and not having anyone to share it with (as nice as the tech was, they don't get excited for you, ya know?). We went over things like the Nuchal Fold (a test for Down's Syndrome risk)---which was normal. Kidneys, bladder, 4 chamber heart, and brain all looked normal. And, most interesting (to me), baby measured EXACTLY the right size. By the time I was 20 weeks with Smidget, he measured several weeks over "normal"---but this baby is measuring dead-on. That, and the fact that baby is so quiet in-utero makes me think that this baby is going to be very different than Big Brother. Personality AND size are bound to be different! We shall see!
FINALLY, they let Smidget and Daddy come back and view it with me...and after that the ultrasound was pretty exciting. It was so nice hearing Smidget call out to the baby by the proper pronoun and making a big deal about being able to see the baby. When the tech let us take a look at the genitalia, we were relieved to see that the same genitalia as we saw at 17 weeks. Not that we care about gender, but after I already went and bought bedding and made the registry, its nice to not have to re-do it. And, amusing to see how differently the baby reacted to us peeking...the first time we had to poke and prod to get a glimpse---this time, it was pretty obvious!!!
But, according to Smidget, baby's feet look kindof like a puppy :D
Good to know!
Alas, that portion of the ultrasound was far too short. After about 5 minutes, the tech printed out a few photos for us and sent us on our way, with Smidget chattering on about the baby (just loudly enough to make other folks in the hallway smile and tell me how cute he is. Which always makes me pretty happy...not because I don't recognize his ridiculous cuteness every minute of the day, but because its nice to know that I'm not totally biased and that other people see it too, haha.
If it were solely up to my judgement, my son would be declared the cutest kid on Earth and that would be that. But, I recognize that I am pretty biased about the whole thing. How could I not be? I'm kindof his MOM!
And now I have to figure out how to balance having the TWO most gorgeous kids on Earth. And the smartest. And the silliest :D See? Bias. But, they are both pretty cute :D
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