Am I supposed to eat my kid?

So you know all of those pregnancy books and websites that tell you what to expect as you go along; why do they believe the best way to describe the size of the kid is to compare it to food? They compare it to things like watermellon seeds, pears, and even a pineapple which is my wife's favorite. They really couldn't think of anything better then a pineapple? Just what a pregnant women wants to envision giving birth to 5 months down the line. It would be like comparing them to animals and saying now it's the size of a shrimp, now a hamster, and now it's the size of a porcupine. Real nice. I guess from my standpoint at least they compare it to foods that I wouldn't eat anyways, mainly fruits and vegetables. We may have a problem if the size comparisons were things like swiss cake rolls, hamburgers, and pizza.

We also had a dry run of what dinner will be like a year from now when Amy and Mike brought over their 6 month old Natalie. Basically a lot of noise, a lot of pounding, and a lot of moving around. Very entertaining and very cute, but just a little different then the current dinner situation at the Becker's which usually involves sitting in the living room, watching TV, and eating things like a bag of doritios, some Hickory Farms beef sticks, and a Diet Mountain Dew. Although it did cause us to use our dining room table. That's right, the table we've used about 10 times the whole 4 years we have had it. The table was just glad to be used for something other than holding mail.

It was fun to get to see how a 6 month old reacts. Basically you just need something that can make some noise and that they can try to grab. In our case she was fascinated with a water bottle. So no toys will be bought by us, I'm just using things I find around the house.

Finally, what is up with the lead time on daycares. I contacted a daycare this week and was told the next opening was in December of 2009. What are people doing, picking a daycare and then making a baby? Do parents just go around putting their names on waiting lists in case it happens? I'm asking the question when we go to the next one on Wednesday, need to learn in case we have a second kid. Although we'll wait and see how this first one goes before making any more.

Doctor's visit next week I think, Ultrasound in two weeks, Cancun in three. Can't wait.

Doctor's visits

So about three months in we got to go to our first doctors visit. First off, the baby doctor's office, much faster than the normal doctor's office. The one where you make an appointment, show up 10 minutes early, and still wait 30 minutes to get into a room. Then a nurse comes into the room, does a quick check, and then you wait another 30 minutes. That's why I just avoid the doctor. Anyways, this one much faster, they put you in a room on time, and the doctor comes right away. Nice.

So Laura starts going through all of the checkup and the doctor asks how we told the family, so Laura explained the skydiving thing. Funny thing is that the doctor she called to ask if it was OK to go skydiving, is the same doctor in the room! She informed us it was the first time she had gotten that question.

We got to hear the heartbeat which was pretty cool and fast, so then we were pretty sure there was a baby in there. Then they asked if we wanted to try a quick small ultrasound, which we did. So we got to see the kid for the first time, very strange, you basically see the heart beating and then our kid was waving it's arms and legs all around. Crazy! Our doctor said it looked like a teddy graham, which it did. So first doctor's appointment ended, we are definitely having a kid, and we are not having triplets, oh well. No TV show for us like John and Kate + 8.

So a month later we have the second appointment. Pretty much a letdown after the first one. Laura weighs in, they ask her how she's feeling and that's about it. I was like really, that's it. The one crazy thing was that when they tried to find the heartbeat the doctor said the baby was moving around a lot. I told Laura I pictured a little mini baby running around in her stomach, in slow motion. Probably taking after it's dad, the great high school cross country runner. :) Let's hope not, cross country not very exciting to watch.

Next doctor's visit in a couple of weeks, ultrasound early December. Should be exciting!