Baby Does Not Like Thanksgiving

We traveled to KY to visit Jason's family for Thanksgiving this year. We left on Wed night and encountered some unusual traffic in STL that turned our 4 hour trip into a 6 hour trip. After finally arriving we got to catch up with Vicki, Stef and Ryan. We realized it had been almost a year since we had seen them. We usually do not go that long without a visit, but with the combination of our chaotic careers this year and Vicki's new work schedule it made it tough to coordinate a visit. Vicki and Stef slaved over a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, which we all stuffed ourselves on. Apparently baby did not enjoy the Thanksgiving dinner as much as I had and decided to make me very ill. I was feeling so badly, we had to cut our trip a little short. At least we will get a chance to do some more visiting next weekend when we go back for Stefanie's baby shower.

More fascinating developmental facts:

• Teeth started to form
• Baby is now the size of a dime and weighs less than a peanut shell
• Arms are now developed and proportionally sized

First Trip to the Doctor

We had our first appointment with Dr. Claudia Krasnoff this morning. We are proud to report that she delivered Daniel(son of our friends Jill and David) and is on the teaching staff at Washington University, which makes Jason very happy. His profession makes him somewhat of a healthcare snob. She did an ultrasound to make sure all was well and to get a measurement of the baby for a more accurate due date, July 6th. She told us that everything looks perfect and we could see the heart beating on our little coffee bean sized baby we will lovingly call Nuni(a tribute to one of favorite SNL skits) until we pick out an official name. After the ultrasound we spent some time in Dr. Krasnoff's office going over the rules of the road and filling out some paperwork. We are going to switch my prenatal vitamin to one of the new fancy ones with all natural omega-3 DHA, since I am not a fan of the fruits of the sea(seafood) I was glad to know that I would not have to attempt to choke down the recommended allowance of fish each week. Jason found much relief in knowing that there is in fact ONLY one baby hanging out in the womb, my body was also quite relieved.

Above are the pictures of Nuni, and one of those zigzags is the beating heart.

I guess we have some fascinating development to catch up on, here are the highlights from this week.

• Nuni now has it second set of non-functional kidneys, the third and final set will come tomorrow(no wonder I have been so tired two sets of kidneys in one week, phew!)
• The arms are like paddles still and the tail has diminished and leg buds are forming.
• A week from now, the baby will double in size
• Ribs started to form yesterday

Hmmm what could it be?

When I got home this afternoon there was a package on the front porch. Since I could not remember ordering anything, I assumed that maybe Jason had found another treasure on ebay. When I got closer and discovered it was an amazon book, I again assumed that Jason had order another geeky book about Six Sigma or maybe even another Steven Hawking intellectual nightmare. When I saw that the box was addressed to me, I knew that it must be a gift. I was delighted to find a sweet note from my friend Jenny Marti and "The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy". Knowing that Jenny and I have the same sense of humor and she told me that it cracked her up, I could not wait to start reading. I read nearly half of the book tonight....funny stuff.

Thanks Jen, Rob, Quinn and Tristan!

A lovely sentiment

There was a surprise in the mail for me today. The Dengler's sent us a very thoughtful congratulatory card. Thanks Julie, Gary, and Hannah!

We're expecting...but will baby be a Wilson?

I have given in to the peer pressure from my famly to start blogging about the pregnancy and then the baby, so I will do my best break out my inner geek and become a "blogger"....shouldn't be too hard given my profession.

I am sure by now that most of you have heard our wonderful news that we are expecting our first child in July. We got the good news last Friday, October 26th. We called Jason's mom one night this week and I am pretty sure she called everyone she new the minute we got off of the phone with her. We waited to tell my family this weekend in person.

On to the moral story of this blog....Wilson??? Well, off course our child will be a Wilson, but for how long? If she is a girl she will bear the Wilson family name until that anticipated Wedding day(unless culture dictates a new tradition in name taking). A boy, of course, will continue with that name for life.

Jason has a little sister and two cousins, Stefanie, Shelley and Harmon, leaving him with the responsibility of being the last male in the Wilson family line. The gender of our baby will determine the continuation or the possible ending of the Wilson family name, so will he/she be a Wilson? It will be some time before we will know for sure, but we can hardly wait to know so that we can start decorating the baby's room.

It is still early in the pregnancy, but everything seems to be going well. So far the only noticeable changes have been frequent trips to the ladies room and daily naps.