there's a bunch of stuff i should probably be doing right now, but i just don't feel like moving.
this past week has been exhausting, and we both worked hellified overtime last nite. actually came home from work together....that never happens...i'm usually home first.
i hate working nites. hhhhaaaaatttttteeeee it. but you gotta do what you gotta do, eh?
my mum got some pictures developed from the wedding and showed them to us the other nite, they were pretty good. there are literally hundreds more to be developed over the next few weeks. we had disposable cameras on all the tables (nine in all) and steph and kathy and sherry all made sure that every..single..picture was taken. so that will be fun. i wanna see what kind of pictures everyone took. knowing my luck they'll all be pictures of people's asses or of me picking my butt or something of that nature.
cos i pick my butt constantly, you know.
wednesday was the ultrasound. hoooo boy. i wanted to wait to write about it until i could post some of the pictures, but my mother had to steal them so she could take them to work and show everyone in the entire damned world. heheheh. i'll probably get them back today. hopefully.
anyway.
got up at seven like i said i was going to (for once i got up when i said i was going to)... went to the bathroom... commenced drinking water. this is one of the worst tortures a person can endure. i'm convinced of it. bamboo stick under the nails set aflame? nothin. drink two full bottles of water right after waking up and then have your belly poked and prodded and try not to pee yourself.......now that's what they should have done in vietnam. err....or not.
anyway.
mum came over (cos she wanted to see the baby tooooo), and she drove dave and i to the open mri place that was doing the ultrasound. by this point i had to pee so fucking badly that every bump was literal hell. then we actually got to the place and they kept making me get up sit down get up sit down get up fill out this form sit down get back up here's another form sit down bla bla really had to pee.
the lady finally called my name and i went back into the dark little room...sat on the crispy meat deli paper they put on the exam tables...yanked the pants down a little and here comes the goo.
i liked this goo better than the goo at oz's office, though, because it was heated. haha...
next was another form of torture. the lady starts looking at the baby, typing along on her lil computer screen...never once saying anything to me about the baby... or how the baby's doing... like if there was a horn or a cloven foot or anything... and the screen is turned so that i can't see a damned thing but the bottom right corner... and every time i'd strain my neck to try to see she'd make me lay down again ("i need you to lay back and not tighten your stomach muscles, mmkay??")... so of course, i started asking her questions. incessantly. until she was forced to stop typing and tell me every last detail of what she was recording over there. hahaha...
so for the record all the organs are where they should be..haha. baby's just as big as a 21-22 week old fetus should be, moves around just like a 21-22 week old fetus should, liver, kidneys, lungs, heart.....all completely normal.
*sigh of relief*
by this point my bladder's about to burst. i was curling my toes and trying so hard not to pee right there on the table. the lady went and got dave and my mum while i sat there trying not to pee myself.
once they were in there we finally got to have the cool part of the day. the lady turned the screen around and there was the baby....in all the blue-ish gray glory of the screen.
and he's a boy, by the way. weeeeeeeeeeee
he was sitting in there with his legs crossed and his arms up, at one point he made a fist and had it over his head like fight-the-power which was hilarious. he wasn't cooperating very well with the lady taking his pictures because every time she'd get an angle she liked he would move...haha. and would only let her get a heartbeat for about ten seconds...hahahahaha...
i was holding onto dave's side and my mum was holding onto his back....so that was sort of funny too...
we could see the baby's little heart beating and his fingers and toes... and his little nose and lips and his chin and his neck... and his little ears... and his eyes... well his eyes are fused shut for a couple more months but we could still see them...heheh... he moved around all the time...which was funny... the lady was getting a little frustrated with him and i kept thinking "dude it's only nine in the morning...this is quiet compared to what he'll be doing around two this afternoon..." i'm telling you, the little guy is relentless. he only stops for a few hours out of the day. other than that it feels like a constant muscle spasm down there. he's getting to where he can kick harder and he's gotten me in the gut a couple of times and knocked a little of the breath out of me. heehee...he's so mean. i love him so much..
the lady moved the thingy down across his back once, which was cool...because we could see his little spine and his ribcage... then she went under his butt and mum and dave and i all sort of gasped because whoooooooooooaaaaaaaa.........that was a nutsack. i mean there is no mistaking this little guy....he's most definitely a boy. haha.. there were a few more angles we saw that made it quite clear...and he wasn't ashamed of it obviously (like a true man), he kept spreading his legs wide open and giving us the crotch shot...hahaha. and there it was, the little penis and did i mention this kid has a gigantic nutsack??? he'll love me later for writing this. but seriously......i don't think it would be wise for my mum to hold out for a girl after that ultrasound.......heheheh...
i love the pictures they gave me...which are like, ten in all. so many of them. which rocks. and i swear i'm gonna post them once my mum gives them back to me and i have a spare few minutes. in the first one he's got his hand up above his head and you can see all five of his little fingers...i love the little fingers and toes. he's seriously.....the coolest thing. and hey....we made that. haha.....go us.
overall it was the absolute coolest thing in the entire frickin world. and the weirdest. feeling him move and seeing it on a screen simultaneously........yeah. a little strange.
he's kicking up a storm right now...it's getting around afternoon time. he's always wide awake in the afternoons.
so that was the coolness of wednesday. the rest of the week = not so cool but ah well cos it's over.
still got a bunch of stuff i should be doing, so i guess i'll get to it.
*smooches*
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