Piggysnoot

Dear Baby,

You’ve been moving and grooving like crazy these last few days…I told your Daddy that it feels like you’re redecorating in there or something. I suppose you’ve been moving like this all along and are just now running out of room to do complete gymnastics routines in my belly. Sometimes when you’re really kicking (and/or punching), I can see my belly bulging around…now THAT is some strange ####. I guess I probably shouldn’t be using the word #### around you…but living in our house I’m sure you’ll hear worse…plus it really is strange ####…there’s just no other way to describe it.

Today while Daddy, Pixel, and I were watching the Crocodile Hunter Memorial Marathon, you were kicking pretty hard and your Daddy finally caught you and was able to feel you kicking around! I told him you had been moving and showed him right where to put his hand on my belly and less than a minute later he said, “there it is!”. You’ve been very elusive the last week or so…I knew he’d be able to feel you moving by now…but everytime I showed him where you were kicking…you stopped. I wonder if that’s an indication of your attitude-to-come?! Just between you and me and the internet…I think he may have been slightly creeped out at first…you know…the thought of a tiny person moving inside his spouse’s body is overwhelming…but to feel it happen…a tad bit creepy…don’t worry though, he’ll be the best Daddy ever…once you’re on the outside!

I bought you a few more clothing items this weekend at some garage sales. While washing and putting away everything I told your Daddy that I don’t think you’ll need one stinking onesie for your whole first 0-3 months. I didn’t quite realize the collection we have going of smaller sized stuff…but it’s all so cute…and cheap! Your Grandma bought you a whole collection of Winnie the Pooh books, too! They were super nice…but not board books…so these’ll have to be ‘Mommy and Daddy read them to you books’ and not ‘Baby looks at them and tears the pages books’. For your sake I hope you like Pooh because we rarely leave any Pooh things behind when we find them! I found a green onesie that says “Hello, I Am Adorable”…for only 50 cents! I couldn’t leave it there…so you better be adorable or I’m gonna be in trouble. I don’t want some smart ass in the grocery store seeing you and being like, “um…no…not really”. So see if you can work on that while you’re hanging out in my belly!

One last exciting thing to tell you about…we’re going to get another shot at finding out if you’re a boy or a girl…on Saturday! We found a place that does a thing called a gender scan ultrasound. It’s basically what we already had at the doctor’s office…but they’re going to be trying to find out your gender…the best part is that if you’re not cooperating again we get to keep coming back for free until you are cooperating! I’d prefer that we find out this Saturday of course because we want to get the baby registry done…but I like the insurance of knowing we can come back if it doesn’t work out. We’re also going to get a VHS tape of our ultrasound session. You probably will never know what a VHS is…but it’s how we used to watch movies…before DVDs. I hope we can find our VCR…that’s what you use to watch a VHS tape…

Love,
Mommy