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.

Baby Edumacation

Less than 24 hours after the positive pregnancy test, we headed to our local Borders and purchased a pregnancy book.  Not wanting to go too outside the norm, we grabbed the universally agreed upon best overall guide to pregnancy: What to Expect When You're Expecting.  We're reading it together and each have our own bookmark.  The book basically follows the timeline of the pregnancy so we're going to try and stay a few weeks ahead of the curve. There's also a chapter I've already gone through that's just for Dads to try and make me more sympathetic towards the host aka Mom...nice try ;)

Positive Pee Stick

So, there was nothing really different about checking for a positive pregnancy this time compared to all the other times (some might know that Megan is a habitual pregnancy tester).  However, both of us had a feeling this might be it.  Not wanting to get our hopes up, Megan left the stick to do it's thing in the bathroom.  I went and checked it after 10-15 minutes and noticed that there was actually a very faint hint of a line (for this particular test, a single line adjacent to the existing line means it's positive).  Being pretty familiar with pregnancy tests at this point, I innocently told Megan there was a faded line and played it off as if it were a no-go, knowing full well that even a weak hint at a line indicated the pregnancy test was positive.  She jumped up to take a look and quickly corrected me that this was a positive result.  After I reread the pregnancy instructions two more times, I eventually agreed with her.  Megan took another test the next day to confirm hence the two results in the above picture.