Second Doctor's Appointment, and First Slumber Party (11 Weeks)

So we had our second doctor's appointment on Friday (technically the first prenatal visit, the last one was the initial diagnostic visit). Nothing really new to report: the baby's growing, Denine's blood work is clear, everything's A-okay. The baby is now about 5cm/2in, so I guess he/she's been promoted from peanut to Brazil nut. We had another ultrasound done (off the books, just 'cause the doc likes to do them, thanks Dr. Mullin!), so hopefully we can get this one scanned and posted in a more timely manner. In the mean time, here is the first sonogram that I forgot to post earlier.

 I always love looking at early sonograms, they're like "Where's Waldo" in black and white with static. For those without practice, the baby is the gray blob in the upper-left of the black upside-down-heart shaped blob. Yeah, it to me a few seconds, too...

Jamie's first slumber party was last night, his belated birthday observance. He's had people sleep over before, but never more than one person; I've officially decided that five boys between the ages of nine and eleven is about three too many, particularly when they're up and running around the house until about midnight. At that point two of them went home and the other three were banished to Jamie's bedroom, where they apparently played with Legos and DSs until about 3:00. It was fun but we are all pretty exhausted today, although the boys were somehow bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 9:00 this morning when I got up. Thankfully we shouldn't have to repeat the experience for about a year, at least.