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November 27 It's a bouncing baby...So, as promised, here is our gender update. It's a boy!!! A very healthy-looking little boy! He was moving like crazy during the ultrasound, leading our ultrasound tech to conclude that he was a very active little fellow this morning. Right now he weighs 14 oz, which apparently is 2 oz more than the average, so he's growing well! And he apparently has very long legs (courtesy of his mama, I believe!). We got to see his little heart beating away, and we got to watch him opening and closing his mouth as he tried to suck his thumb. So neat! I, of course, cried like an idiot...and Chris nearly did too.
So all is well, and there is little doubt that he is, indeed, a boy. Right in the beginning, he struck a pose that left pretty much no doubt as to his gender. Even if the ultrasound tech hadn't pointed it out to us, I think both Chris and I could've figured it out within about a second.
The other day when we were speculating about his gender, Pigwidgeon kicked me as we were discussing it. I think he was eager to share his knowledge with us.
 Check out our photo album for pictures of little Pigwidgeon. He's got his mama's long legs and his daddy's lucky belly.
 Hope you all are well! November 25 Thanksgiving WeekendWelcome to our new and improved blog! After using Blogger for a bit, I discovered that it isn't very user-friendly for uploading more than one or two pictures at a time. Once little Pigwidgeon arrives, we'll probably have a lot of pictures to post, so I decided to try something a little more picture-friendly. And thus, the better-than-ever Small Family blog!
Chris and I had a nice Thanksgiving weekend with his parents and family. It was quiet by Small standards...but quite pleasant to me, since I'm much more used to gatherings with just a few people. Large crowds aren't so much my thing!
 We took a trip to Happy Hollow Park in San Jose to see their new baby meerkats—so cute!! Unfortunately, Chris and I forgot the camera, so alas I have no pix of the meerkats.
However, I do have pix of our other weekend endeavor—painting Pigwidgeon's nursery and installing chair-rail molding. Check out our photo album to see the results! We worked pretty much all of Saturday and most of Sunday on it, but we're really pleased with how it turned out. We plan to add some accessories to liven it up, once we figure out the baby's gender and decide what exactly we want to do. The idea right now is that the green bottom of the room should look like a soft, grassy meadow, and the light-blue upper walls and ceiling should look like a beautiful sky. I plan to sponge-paint some clouds on the ceiling and maybe hang some glow-in-the-dark stars, so that Pigwidgeon has something neat to look at when he's in his crib. We're thinking the decor will probably be animals. If Pigwidgeon is a girl, I'll probably include some flowers and such as well. If he's a boy, we'll stick with something like monkeys. (Okay, yes...I'm pushing my animal obsession off on the kid, but there's nothing wrong with that! When he/she is old enough to redecorate, it can be changed.)
 I've also included pix of a lovely pie I made—it's a trial run for a pie I'm planning for Christmas. It's supposed to be apple-cranberry crumble pie, but I forgot to buy cranberries, so it's actually more of an apple-peach-currant crumble pie, sort of invented based on the fruits we had in the house. We haven't tasted it yet because it's still cooling. But if nothing else, it looks pretty!
Stay tuned on Tuesday. Assuming Pigwidgeon cooperates with the ultrasound tech, we'll be posting the baby's gender that day!! |
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