Monday, September 24, 2007

cooking and other domestics

some say when you become a wife-y, it's time to strap on that apron and get vaccuming... maybe not in that order, but 'taking care of' your hubby and your house is to be high on your list of priorities. if cooking meals means baking chicken with a dash of season salt, tossing a bagged salad, and steaming frozen veggies, i am a master. if cleaning means decorating the entire house when your husband is out of town, i take the cake. lately, however, i haven't been so proud of my routine. my cooking (and variety) doesn't come close to what i think it should be when children are involved and my cleaning (deeply or even picking up) is no where near the tidyness level for infants to crawl around. so, enter this site, a great tool to get and keep me on top of my wife-y and motherly game!

Monday, September 17, 2007

five-month ultrasound

cute, huh?

we had our five-month ultrasound today. baby green is growing so well! i am doing such a good job :). this is the appointment that requires extra attention from the ultrasound operator, so it wasn't a chatty appointment, but very neat just the same. guests aren't allowed in the room until the end and pete wasn't able to be there, so i was all alone watching our baby move for about an hour. the operator takes shots of all sorts of cool things: ventricles of the heart,bladder,umbilical cord, etc. taking a profile was difficult because apparently babies in utero find their thumbs around this time! we had to 'catch' the baby with their thumb out for a profile pic - in the picture above, you can see his/her hand just above the head. the operator also measures the baby and stated an expected due date of january 28th. i guess due dates don't change from this check-up unless they are 14 days different than the original estimate -- looks like february 3rd holds ground!