Ride for Roswell

Today we rode our bikes on the 9-mile course of the Ride for Roswell http://www.rideforroswell.org/

The girls had a blast, Sophie riding for the first time without training wheels. Ande brought her friend Hannah, Hank rode with us and ofcourse me (belly & all) & Adam. I think our team, "Nuts about a cure" raised about $700, the whole ride total was a little over $1.5 million!

Roswell is the cancer research center and hospital that treated Adam about 2 years ago for testicular cancer... ensuring his life and ability to live it as evidenced by our pregnancy. Days like today make me grateful to have my husband and now be carrying his son. I saw so many people riding "In Memory" of someone, I am lucky to only have one name on my "In Memory" list, and one very important name on my "In honor of" list!

The baby loved the ride, kicked me the whole time! My rear end though, whew, I wont be riding today or tomorrow... I don't know how people do the 62.5 mile course. Ofcourse, when not preggers or riding with children, I could be motivated I suppose. Maybe those cute padded shorts would have helped? Maybe Annie and Ben would fly over for a ride and challenge Adam and I in one of the coming years?!?

I invested in one of those pregnancy belts as my last shift at work did my back in. Unfortunately, I have a 4-night-stretch starting on Sunday night (tomorrow night) and I ordered the belt online. I may not see it until night 2 or 3. If you think working as a nurse is bad on your back, work labor and delivery pregnant! I am, however, pleased that I don't have swollen ankles or hemmoroids to match my waddle and aching back. I am so looking forward to visiting my Tucson family and indulging in one of the prenatal massages that my sister has been raving about!

So enough of my rambling... I am going to go contort myself and try to paint my toenails!

Oh, Boy! He's gonna kill me for naming the blog FRUIT!

So here are some ultrasound photos of our Baby BOY!!!! He was happy to show off his "parts" but we were unable to get good face shots. The second picture is as close as we could get. He still looks skeletal, perhaps I ought to be eating more??!?

The debate turned into a compromise, if we find out the gender, I get to try cloth diapers. Not too hard to decide as it is win-win for the find out team. Now we know the gender of our baby and we will put less garbage into landfills and save money on expensive disposables. Plus, as I understand it, cloth diapered, breastfed babies have less diaper rash and potty train sooner. And how can you resist a diaper named Fuzzi Bunz?

So... now we have to name him.

Since discovering our baby was our son, I have started feeling him kick and move more. The ultrasound really brought the fact that I am pregnant into more of a reality. Not that my increasing size hasn't been an eye-opener, but I feel more motherly and less frumpy. I am also excited for the oportunity to mother a son as I think I have shown I am pretty good at mothering daughters.

I am going to look into adding some boy-specific items to my wish list. If you're interested here is the link. It is a work in progress as I haven't yet shared it with Dad... http://froogle.google.com/shoppinglist?a=SWL&id=67dff93f3d9c3964e6dee826affd0ff989f2c29

One thing to note about this wishlist is that none of the links in it work, so essentially it is just a list of items we want or need with pictures and suggested stores where google told me that item was sold for the least amount of money.

One neat item I couldn't get to load onto the wishlist was located at http://www.snappiescontainers.com

I think that after my son is born, this blog is going to turn into Jeanne's shopping recommendations for the new mom....