Office Exodus

We've decided to make our previous office into the nursery.  So, the guest bedroom is now a guest bedroom + office combo.  It took quite some time to get all of the furniture out of the office and closet, but it's pretty bare now with the exception of a few things on the wall and Ember and Biscuit's sleeping quarters.

We bought a new desk and big bookshelf for the new office guest bedroom + office that are more space efficient.  Thanks to Craigslist, we got rid of both of our old desks as well as a couch that's been in the basement forever.  Craigslist is the best thing ever.  People actually pay you to come to your house and remove crap that you don't want.

Next step -> remodeling!

Fluttering Heart

Today was our first doctor's appointment to confirm the pregnancy and make sure everything was going as expected.  The sonogram image shown here was one more tangible piece of evidence to certify we are actually going to be parents!

The doctor walked us through what to expect, a basic schedule of how the pregnancy will go, and gave us a ridiculous amount of prenatal vitamin samples (apparently the prenatal vitamin game is full of competitors that seem to purposefully make it hard to compare the options out there; see confusopolies). 

Something unexpected, at least to me, was that they can determine the heart rate of the baby by the sonogram video.  At this point, the heartbeat isn't audible, but the video software they use can calculate the heart rate by measuring the fluttering of the heart.  The sonogram image shows four points overlaying the baby which is used to measure the head to tail measurement as well as a focus point for the software to measure the heart rate.  Our baby clocked in at a rapid 142 bpm.  I especially enjoyed this part because it was the nerdiest.

If you squint your eyes hard enough, you can see in the initial sonogram images that the estimated due date is 10-29-2011.