by Erin at 8:35 am
It’s a girl!
We had our “anatomy ultrasound” yesterday and she is a she. The ultrasound was really cool (we were able to see her heart, brain, spine, skeleton, FACE, among other things) but the pictures are really disappointing. We’ve learned, possibly too late, that it is better to have your ultrasound first thing in the morning when the tech is feeling picture happy. Apparently at the end of the day the tech just wants to get rid of you. We’ll try to put up at least one picture soon but I do have a bonus ultrasound next week (more on that later) and I’m hoping it will give us better photos.
Tags: it's a girl, ultrasound
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by Erin at 2:59 pm
We decided a few weeks ago that if we are going to read to MiniSquatch in the womb that we may as well read him/her Shakespeare. After some deliberation and feedback from the internet, we settled on The Tragedy of King Lear because, though we’ve both seen it performed, we don’t know it or other Shakespeare plays very well (as evidenced, of course, by our inability to answer Jeopardy questions while eating dinner a few weeks back). So we pulled out our giant Complete Works of William Shakespeare and proceeded to read Lear aloud in bed one night. We discovered, sadly, that neither of us have undiscovered theatrical talents and that we pretty much suck at reading Shakespeare out loud in a way that gives the words any life. Dan suggested that if we both had our own copy of Lear it might be easier to follow along.
there be more readables! go harpoon em with ye eyecannons ☞
Tags: Parenting Books, Reading, Shakespeare, TV
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by Dan at 2:22 pm
This xkcd panel’s been getting a lot of play in our house these past few months:
If you don’t know, xkcd is a web comic by Randall Munroe that I’ve maybe been a little obsessed with for some number of years. As you should also be. As everyone should be. The original of the above can be found here.
Tags: disassembled babies, we're adults!
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