Things I learned yesterday

1. It is seriously not cool to make pregnant women have to hang around with full bladders (or, rather, get stuck in traffic with full bladders) in order to be able to get a good ultrasound. Not cool at all.

2. I have a large bladder. Or so said the ultrasound technician, who, when she saw how full my bladder, actually let me empty it halfway and then still commented, You have a really big bladder. Who knew? And then why do I have to pee so much all the time? No idea.

3. Things with baby look good! We will get the full results next week (which, of course, could still be wrong), but so far, so good.

4. I am having a giant baby, or, rather, a really long baby. None of you are surprised, I know. You have seen Joshie. He was a big ole baby himself - about 11 lbs (!) and really long. As a youngster, he appeared to be developmentally delayed b/c he was so big. People thought, why can't that kid who comes up to his mom's waist walk very well? And it was b/c he was one year old. Awesome. Anyway, doctors, etc., basically measure how long your baby is to tell you how far along in your pregnancy you are. Well, we know just about exactly (give or take a day) when we got pregnant, so we have a good idea how far along we are. We've just about completed 12 weeks. Yonder baby in the belly, however, measured twelve weeks and six days big yesterday. This has sort of been the story all along, though every time we get an ultrasound the difference between where we are in real weeks and how big the baby is measuring keeps growing. Where am I going to fit this thing in month nine?

P.S. Belly pictures coming soon-ish...