Presenting Baby Skeletor

First, the question everyone asks: No change, still pregnant.

Second, the promised new ultrasound picture of Baby Skeletor. It's a closeup of the big, jowly, melon-headed face (the face is horizontal and almost fills the screen). The forehead is to the right in the picture; the two dark spots are the eyes, and the whitish spot in the middle is the nosebone, I believe.

Told you it's not pretty. I hope Baby looks a little less demonic in real-life form! I'm starting to doubt we'll ever find out.... Sigh.

Martin and I May Be Stressed ...

... but Baby is not. Had our non-stress test and "placenta juice" check today to make sure that Baby is holding up OK in post-due conditions. Everything looked great! Baby was shy, but we did finally get a nice look at his/her face during the ultrasound. I'll scan the picture in later and post it. Baby's got a big ole melon, that's for sure (what a shock looking at big-noggined Martin and I). Everything else just had that ultrasound Skeletor look -- big, black eye sockets, etc. What's not for a mother to love?

Passing the Time

So ... what does a mother-to-be do to pass the time while waiting for a past-due baby? Well, the answer, it turns out, is pretty much anything to keep herself busy. Today, for example, I mostly spent the time muttering "Not fun anymore ... grumble, grumble. ... So tired of this ... grumble, grumble." I also was lucky enough to visit Hot Doug's with Kelly and her beautiful girls. It was an oasis of fun in the middle of my crabbing.


As for other days, I've made a little illustration of some of my favorite things to do:

* watching TV (my blessed Martin found me Season 1 of "X-Files," and I'm almost done)

* talking on the phone -- my million daily calls always go like this:
Caller: "Anything?"
Me: "Nope."

* doing freelance work (you've hit rock-bottom when freelance work is your "treat" of the day)

* going on a walk (to try to shake the baby loose)

* knitting (I started this scarf for Martin three years ago if that shows how often I usually do it)

* reading (I've been tearing through the books, trying to "stock up" for when Baby takes up my reading energy and time)

* cleaning (see note about freelance work)

* taking Maalox (usually while cursing and grimacing)

* sleeping (see note about reading)

* aimlessly searching the Web (soooooo not interesting, by the way)

* wondering why I didn't just go ahead and start the school year after all (Who cares if the students would have only had me for a month or so before I left for the year? At least I'd have been busy.)

Have any suggestions on Web sites to entertain me? Other sources of diversion? Post a comment!

A Boy...but when?

So, with 56% of the vote, "boy" is the winner on the "guess the sex" contest. But when the heck is the little bugger going to arrive? New polls up to the left. Feel free to justify your response in the comments here.

sigh...

...oh well. I've updated the coutdown to my new guess: Thursday at 11pm.