Sick Day; Getting Better

One Tuesday morning, we awoke to find you sick, Julia. Mommy and I were both a bit stressed out. We both had meetings that afternoon. We both were trying to figure out if the other person could stay home with you. We both got super duper even more stressed out when, as we were trying to figure this out, Preston took a big whole POOP on the floor! So, we understand that from your POV, we looked upset at you. But we weren't.

Alas, you disappeared as we figured it out, and I got out of my meeting, and I determined that I would stay home with you gladly.

When you reappeared, you delivered this note to me:

I keep this note taped to my wall at my office to remind me to be a better dad every day. I explained to you that I wasn't mad at you. And mommy wasn't mad at you. And you have nothing to be sorry about. And that I did. We were stressed with the dog poop and the situation, not you.

So I worked from home, and I had the BEST sick-but-getting-better-steadily-throughout-the-day-co-worker of ALL TIME. 

I got a lot of work done.

So did you:

I am so glad you were my at-home-co-worker for the day.

And thank you for frgiving me for seeming to be mad at you (which I wasn't :) ).

I love you. Always and forever.

Here Comes...the Son!

Your Mom, Aunt Shamsy and I just got back from your 18 week sonogram and it's 100% positive now: you are a boy!

They even took a nice picture of your "boy parts." Don't worry, I won't embarrass you by displaying this picture at your graduation or anything. But, I am gonna post it right here, right now:

See that arrow? See what it's pointing at? Now stopping looking at it, before you go blind!

Your appointment went perfectly: 8 fingers, 2 thumbs, 10 toes, 4 ventricles in your heart, 4 brain lobes, 1 tail. Everything was just as it should be!

You are a consistent little guy too: your heartbeat was, again, 150 bpm! Way to go!

But, you were sleeping with your hand draped across your face, so we couldn't get a good look at your profile! The nurse even tried to wake you up again by jostling you, but you wouldn't budge!

So, instead of a cute-as-a-button profile pic, we got a series of more "Skeleton Baby" pictures!

The good news is that you've really graduated from looking like an alien child and/or Predator. But, your skeleton REALLY makes you look like Jack the Pumpking King now (which is quite fitting for the upcoming Halloween!).

But, since you do now have a lot more subcutaneous fat, giving your face a little more shape and a little less skeletal appearance, you kind of also look like the ragdolls from "9."

So, you're clearly moving up on the cuteness scale! That's definitely a plus, but it's not like we had any doubts! Take a look for yourself...at yourself!

There you are, in all your glory! I think you're cute! It also looks like you have your mother's eye sockets! But, as we officially learned today, there's one trait for which you're definitely following in your father's biological footsteps!