Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Little Alien has a heartbeat
Only one, so I can’t make any more jokes about twins. Which run heavily on both sides.
We’ve been keeping this quiet until we had the first checkup, which has now happened, and past the most dangerous time, which is also over.
We’re at 13 weeks, due October 4th. And very happy to be able to talk about it openly now. Yay! It’s made things very interesting. For instance, driving all the way across the country with morning sickness...
The above, with the title as the subject, is what I e-mailed out to a couple groups of people to announce the baby after making the initial post about it today. I figured that would provide another perspective.
Funny thing was, when it came time to announce it, I couldn’t think exactly what to say. I’d planned on Deb posting first, but she asked me to. Luckily I tend to become inspired while showering. Thus the cryptic list of things affected that we couldn’t talk about openly before spilling the beans. Over the course of time, I’d imagined posting many times, including potential titles.
The one on this post was inspired just last night, when we got to hear the heartbeat, based on what has lately solidified as the baby’s nickname. Previously I had in mind “the swimmers are strong in this one” as a title for announcing it.
At any rate, it was a calculated risk, which I should have known had a result rapidly approaching certainty, given the absurd fertility of my male lineage. Since we both knew within about a week of “meeting” (first talking on the phone) that we wanted to marry, and that we thought highly intelligent people should breed heartily for the good of the world, it was far from unwelcome news.
If you watched Wonderfalls Friday, you know what the first name will probably be if it’s a girl. We both completely lost it when the priest’s daughter was introduced to him.
Anyway, I need to get back to working, so I have some hope of affording all this, but I wanted to follow up on the first couple posts with a tad more detail. Even if it is fun to torment the readers with crypticism.