Wow! It's Been a Whole Week!

...And I like exclamation marks!

Right.

I figured I'd make a stab at keeping the updates for this mostly weekly.

So I missed Wednesday this week. I have a good excuse. We were at a concert and by the time I got home it was happy antinauseant time and I was in no condition to type.

I missed Thursday too.

My only excuse there is that I really really really needed to see the last episode of House MD from Season 2. Now that we're caught up, life can return to semi-normal.


Now that the excuses are out of the way, let's move on to what we've been up to this week.

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Not a lot.

Mostly we've been showing people the blog and basking in the glory of the fame awarded someone who has a blog. Or we've been watching House. Or we've been playing on the computer - virtual people quest games or updating our facebook pages. Gads that thing gets addicitive REAL fast when you're not paying attention.

Jelly's been good. Keeping the movement to a minimum and only making its tiny presence known once in the whole past week. Yeah. The morning sickness seems to be back in full force. I now firmly refuse to believe it's ever going away. Whine, whine, moan, complain.

As I mentioned earlier, we took the Jelly to a concert. Actually we took the Jelly to a couple of concerts.

The first was last Saturday. Yep, it's April again. That means time for the annual Drug Trading Show. The show takes place over an entire weekend in April. On the Saturday of the special weekend there is a fancy shmancy dinner with way too much food, good quantities of alcohol, and some generally pretty awesome live entertainment.

This year's entertainment was Blue Rodeo. Jelly had a good time at Blue Rodeo but the bass was a little to strong and shook that amniotic fluid more than Jelly would have liked. I only know this because I've suddenly become hypersensitive to strong bass and not because of any feedback from the Jelly itself. So we backed away from the action on the dance floor and watched from afar.

This past Wednesday Jelly got to experience the comedic and vocal stylings of Jann Arden.

Massey Hall. Toronto. I had forgotten that the floor seats (at least near the front of the room) slide forward when you sit in them. This puts people in a slightly reclined position. A nice feature if you're sitting very close to the stage. This allows you to look up without having to stretch your neck in an unnatural way.

It also stretches out the uterus and surrounding area very nicely, allowing small Jellyfish LOADS of wiggle room.

Shortly after the opening act (SHeDAISY) began their first notes, Jelly began dancing a small jig around my bellbutton.

The jig didn't really end until we went home.

I've mentioned before that I've read lots of studies and books and articles and that I'm a nerd. Anyhoo, all the major sources say that it is too soon for Jelly to properly react to sound. So I'm gonna' go with coincidence on this one.

Fortunately for me though, the Jellyfish was kind enough to stay on the far side, away from the bladder allowing me to sit relatively comfortably for the show. Jelly also didn't protest much during fits of extreme laughter. Jann Arden has quite the sense of humour.

Well, that's about it for now. Sorry this isn't going to be a great ending this week, but if I keep babbling just to try to squeeze out a better one, it's gonna' get silly.

Sooo... until next week! With any luck, we'll have something really great to talk about!

Ciao fer now!

-HLC

Like she said... oh wow!

It's been a pretty exciting past few months, since we found out we were having a baby. Becoming a Dad is a really cool thing I think. At the same time it is scary too. Mommy and I are semi-addicted to the TV show House; only semi-addicted because when we finish the last DVD of season 2 (probably tonight) there wont be anymore left to watch, and the addiction will fade. :) Some of the episodes deal with babies, and young kids; these episodes have now become much harder to watch.

Right, so parenthood... We found out VERY EARLY, and that has made the pregnancy seem long. Does that make any sense? I don't even have to deal with the morning sickness that Mom has had. I'm sure it feels much worse for her.

We've had 2 ultrasounds now, and we even have a video tape of the second ultrasound. To date, that has been the coolest part of the pregnancy - sort of a window into my wife's belly! :)
And an opportunity to see our growing baby. I can't wait until I get to hold our child.

Holy Cats! We're gonna' have a puppy!

Okay,

So pretty much EVERYone already knows this... but we're actually going to be parents in September! How scary is that?! Nature has actually entrusted us with the growth and care of another human being! It's madness I tell you!

Okay okay... it's not gonna' be that bad. We're responsible, mature adults. We can handle this. We managed a year without doing serious, irreversible harm to each other and we kept the cat alive, so how bad could it be, really?

Moving on,

I'm a little scattered today

The details (for those of you who don't know already)

Current due date: 3 September 2007

How far along am I right now?: 20 weeks, 2 days (4 1/2 months)

How many Jellyfish are there in there?: 1

Do we know the gender?: No

Do we want to know the gender?: No

Do we like green and yellow clothes?: Yes. There is also a wide variety of gender nonspecific
reds, blues, and a light lilac colour that really isn't too feminine when smashed together with greens and yellows

How is Mommy feeling?: Apart from not really all that overwhelmed anymore, sick as a dog thank you. That's right, 24 hour 7 days a week morning sickness. The drugs are helping a bit, the wrist bands really aren't helping at all but I feel stylish when I wear them, and I've grown attached to them. Apart from the constant yecch, I feel fine. My energy levels are right about where they should be for now and I know from all the online message boards, and the studies I've been reading (I'm such a nerd) that things could be SOOOO much worse.

Why do I call the baby 'the Jellyfish'?: Peanut and Jujube were taken. My mother called me 'the parasite' (I believe this is not unique to our case), and I got the marine theme from a journal over at Babycenter.com where a couple called theirs the 'Guppy'. Though in their case, the marine theme had a much longer and more sentimental background. I just thought "Jellyfish" sounded funny. I've already started shortening the name to Jelly, so I'm hoping sometime before the child can be humiliated by its little friends, I will have stopped calling it Jellyfish to its face.

Anyhoo, there really isn't much to report at the moment. The critter only just started moving with any amount of regularity and I'm not even showing properly yet - really I just look like I've gained some weight.

Okay, a lot of weight.

In truth as of the last prenatal (last Friday) I'd only gained 5 lbs from the first prenatal.

Also, I haven't met my OB/GYN yet. Though I understand she's very nice and a good doctor. I'll have more details on her sometime in June.

So, whenever we get around to it, we'll try to post. If something really awesome happens, we'll post about it as soon as we get around to it... get the idea? I'm not very good at journal keeping. I never was. Usually I start off well and can keep it going for a couple of weeks but then I get distracted by something shiny and forget all about it and before long it's been three years and I'm just never really going to update that website ever again and....

Sorry. I ramble too.

Well it's late and I'm late for my happy drugs. I'd best toddle off to sleep now before I get more incoherent.

Ciao fer now all!

-HLC