"You keep those O'Neal boys away from our daughters!"
We had our official ultrasound this evening, and, let me tell ya, we were spoiled at the UW Medical Center in Seattle. The lady doing our ultrasound was nice enough and tried her best to tell us what she saw when she remembered that we were even in the room. We did get to see lots of ribs; a nice, steady, strong heartbeat (152 bpm tonight); lots of vertebrae; and all toes and fingers accounted for. But look at these completely awful pictures:
Here's U.B.'s face in profile. You can see the big fat head on the right, facing up, with face bones around the lips and a nose. You may also catch a most perfectly formed left arm, replete with five-fingered hand, and a wonderful-looking spine. That's always my favorite part, looking at how incredibly many vertebrae there are that somehow arranged themselves exactly as they ought within my modest little baby cooker.
U.B.'s nose and mouth look a little weird because the lady zoomed in too far and now you are looking at the facial bones and not the tissue that makes a baby face so very cute. Thanks, lady. At one point, U.B. even turned towards us, and she and I caught a glimpse of the face, closed puffy eyelids and all. It was so precious I started crying, because I'm a mommy and I can do whatever kind of emoting I like. But then when Ms. Talented Ultrasound Tech went to take a picture of this, she again zoomed the view too far back and we get instead this ghastly vision of U.B.'s perfectly-formed skull, eye sockets and nasal openings and all:
But before all this picture-taking occurred, two rather surprising things happened.
1) The tech took all these measurements of U.B.'s body and found that U.B.'s measurements are not only highly consistent with each other but also with what would be expected for the gestational age we had been working with. This means that U.B.'s due date is probably here to stay, and Lord knows why my uterus was "measuring small" at my last appointment, because the tech today estimated U.B. to already be tipping the scales at 1 lb 2 oz.
2) Like a good tech, she stopped over the baby's rear end and said, "I can tell you the gender if you'd like to know. Would you?" "Of course," we reply. "Are you sure?" she says. "Do you want us to beat it out of you?" we reply. "Okay," she says. "It is definitely a boy." And she points out to us most clearly a frank and beans dangling between his perfectly formed legs, far far away from any umbilical business.
Dada and I were rolling. Two boys...we can train them as our rowdy minions and unleash them on the unsuspecting public when they turn teen on us! And how much cash are we gonna save on baby clothes? The only problem, and it is a BIG one, is we are completely without ideas for a boy's name. The girl's name we had down pat, and it is a great one. But for a boy? How can you beat Isaac Thomas? We sat down with our old baby name book tonight, and the very best we could come up with between the two of us was Clobbersaurus Michael O'Neal. And that's just too much of a tongue twister.
Here's U.B.'s face in profile. You can see the big fat head on the right, facing up, with face bones around the lips and a nose. You may also catch a most perfectly formed left arm, replete with five-fingered hand, and a wonderful-looking spine. That's always my favorite part, looking at how incredibly many vertebrae there are that somehow arranged themselves exactly as they ought within my modest little baby cooker.
U.B.'s nose and mouth look a little weird because the lady zoomed in too far and now you are looking at the facial bones and not the tissue that makes a baby face so very cute. Thanks, lady. At one point, U.B. even turned towards us, and she and I caught a glimpse of the face, closed puffy eyelids and all. It was so precious I started crying, because I'm a mommy and I can do whatever kind of emoting I like. But then when Ms. Talented Ultrasound Tech went to take a picture of this, she again zoomed the view too far back and we get instead this ghastly vision of U.B.'s perfectly-formed skull, eye sockets and nasal openings and all:
But before all this picture-taking occurred, two rather surprising things happened.
1) The tech took all these measurements of U.B.'s body and found that U.B.'s measurements are not only highly consistent with each other but also with what would be expected for the gestational age we had been working with. This means that U.B.'s due date is probably here to stay, and Lord knows why my uterus was "measuring small" at my last appointment, because the tech today estimated U.B. to already be tipping the scales at 1 lb 2 oz.
2) Like a good tech, she stopped over the baby's rear end and said, "I can tell you the gender if you'd like to know. Would you?" "Of course," we reply. "Are you sure?" she says. "Do you want us to beat it out of you?" we reply. "Okay," she says. "It is definitely a boy." And she points out to us most clearly a frank and beans dangling between his perfectly formed legs, far far away from any umbilical business.
Dada and I were rolling. Two boys...we can train them as our rowdy minions and unleash them on the unsuspecting public when they turn teen on us! And how much cash are we gonna save on baby clothes? The only problem, and it is a BIG one, is we are completely without ideas for a boy's name. The girl's name we had down pat, and it is a great one. But for a boy? How can you beat Isaac Thomas? We sat down with our old baby name book tonight, and the very best we could come up with between the two of us was Clobbersaurus Michael O'Neal. And that's just too much of a tongue twister.
posted by Claire at 6:24 PM
8 Comments:
Congrats on another boy!!!! Think of how much fun the boys will have exploring!!! I was pretty sure you were going to have a boy by how high you are carrying (old wives tale I know, but if it was true for Britney Spears than it has to be true!!!) Keep it growing!!
Wow! Congrats! What a surprise! ;)
We are goign on the assumption that any further offspring produced by us are going to be boys (if we get a girl, it will be a happy surprise) So our boy name list is now extensive. Go take a gander if you want! ;) We think Benjamin is a nice name! ;)
Erin -- we actually do like Benjamin. Are you sure you wouldn't mind it being added to our consideration?
hooray for you!! your boys will have so much fun together. . .i have 3 girls and a boy. . .my girls are close in age and great pals. . .and they adore their little brother. . .Isaac is so LUCKY!! CONGRATS!
ohmygoodness! No! :) *I*would add isaac to OUR consideration if Tom didn't have some unexplicable issues with it!
Congrats! Cool another boy. I always thought 2 little boys close in age would be so much fun. Hopefully they grow up to be close brothers. As far as the name goes, my next boy would be Michael Francis but that is because it is named after my brother and my father.
Good luck and have fun on the name picking!
Congrats!!! I think I will only be having boys too, so I'm constantly thinking of names. I like the Irish ones though (ya think?) So along with Liam there could be a Shea, Finn, Connor, or Casey. How exciting! Another boy!
Congrats!!
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