Right, so…I’m a bit behind. Today is Oirish Tirsday and I haven’t written an update from last Thursday yet! I also have to go to work in a bit and don’t have a lot of time to write.
So, instead of including the huge intro I have been including, just check out last week’s Socks update and it has all the links to previous posts, otay?
Actually there isn’t much to update about: everything is fine and normal and growing like crazy. We both wonder in what universe there are avocados bigger than navel oranges, but who are we to argue with pregnancy books?
I did try to find ‘Button’ in different languages last week. Bouton (French) is the nicest version, but I also like Tecla (Portugese) and Tasto (Italian). At least according to Babelfish, anyhow. I was probably a bit drunk and was trying to translate the word zipper instead.
Bear has also gotten into the spirit of names. He’s been randomly throwing out ideas here and there. Socks can’t really focus on a name until she knows the gender of Button, though – and I agree. I can’t name a pet until I meet it, how can you name a baby when you don’t even know boy or girl? Of course billions of people have done so, but hey, she has the technology and she intends to use it.
Button is moving around a bit more now. No ‘big’ movements, but Socks can tell there’s something different going on inside her. She said someone told her the early movements would feel like popcorn popping. She thought that was sort of strange…but now agrees that is the best analogy.
At this point Button can also hear Socks’ voice, pretty cool, eh? Even cooler is that from here on, babies hear and remember their mother’s accent, and actually even cry in that accent when born. I heard about this on television, and the best article about it I found (quickly) on the net is this one. I find this pretty amazing, myself.
Time to get ready for work, yuck… But I have one last Bear story. Apparently he has such a phobia of ‘outie’ belly-buttons that if Socks’ navel pops out when she is further along, she might have to hide it with a Band-Aid.
AAAAA! The horror! Run away, run away! 😀
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“Wyatt, I am rolling”. (sorry, I a lover of the movie Tombstone) Babe, you had me rolling about the belly button! That picture is perfect, like a Belly Button Godzilla. Que slow motion and dinosaur noises. We just hope it doesn’t come to the band-aid but ya do what ya gotta do.
Yay for being preggo! I’m just loving every minute so far. So glad that you can come along with me on this crazy wild ride.
Have a great day at work babe. I’ll hear all about it later 😉
Funniest thing about that picture, for me, is that it appears to be of a young child…what if Button has an outie, too? Aaaaa……
It’s growing so fast!
I know! I have a poor sense of time, so seventeen weeks feels like…um…either a year, or a month.
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