July 19th

After a wonderful first anniversary weekend, a trip to the doctor's yesterday revealed that Susana is pregnant.  She really should have mentioned that a year ago.  It also revealed the 14-week-old bugger had a strong-ass heartbeat of 152 bpm.  Previously we'd only been able to see the heartbeat which, on an ultrasound, looks like a storm front coming in from the southeast at 10 mph pushing a high pressure front to the mainland.  The sound is quite interesting resembling Pac-Man on a rampage (whoosha-whoosha-whoosha-whoosha).  It also made my heart stop when I heard it.  Then there was movement.  How can you tell this by sound?  Turns out either every fetus is a club DJ scratching a record or the sound the receiver hears when there is movement roughly sounds like one of those screeching dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.  This made the hearing-your-baby's-heartbeat-for-the-first-time moment a little bit jarring -- whoosa-whoosa-whoosa-SCREEEEEECH-whoosa-whoosa-SCREEEEEECH.  And since we are talking about my kid here there was a LOT of movement.  Little snot couldn't sit still for longer than a few seconds before our eardrums were blistered by the sound of two cars trying to avoid an accident.  It was quite disruptive.  Yup, that's my baby alright.