Friday, February 22, 2008

Big Brother is watching...

...he just doesn't quite get it yet. And who can blame him?

We rewatched the videotape from our 9 week ultrasound today. Jack very cutely repeated after us, "There's a baby. Do you know where that baby is?" His response was, "I wanna 'punon' (put on) Daddy's 'sooz' (shoes)."

I regularly read a popular blog by a woman who really struggled to get pregnant. She's now expecting her second child, and she recently polled her readers asking when they told the older siblings about the arrival of the new baby. Of course, there were some who told the older child as soon as they peed on a stick. And then there were others (especially among her large readership of women coping with infertility) who waited much longer because they did not want to have explain what it meant if their pregnancies ended badly. My favorite response was from a woman who quipped that they had brought the new baby home 3 weeks ago, and they
still hadn't told the older sibling.

I think I like that mom's plan. Jack's got plenty of time to learn to be a brother. It's on our minds a lot, but for now it's just a boring topic of conversation to him.

We're through the first trimester. Mama's gained a pound on top of the holiday weight. The nausea and the fatigue are waning. The Basham Chamblee household eagerly awaits its new addition, due around the first week of September.

Here are some clips from 3 weeks ago...at the time the baby was just under an inch long and shaped pretty much like a kidney bean with buds. In the first video, you can see Kiddo shaking his/her budding shimmy a little.




In the second video, the little blip at the center of the screen is a heartbeat.




p.s. Dear Aunt Melanie, New Baby is sorry that Mama can't run with Team Basham in the big Peoria race this summer, but she will happily come and hand you Gatorade from the sidelines. Go Team Basham!

2 comments:

Sammy said...

Congrats! So happy for you all!

MD said...

What? Yay! Holy Cow! Amazing! We are so excited. I had to read this like 4 times to make sure it said what I thought it did. I SO hope we are back in Atlanta by September...Congrats and we love you guys!