Week 32

Roman's first smile
Roman making kissy faces

32 Weeks

Look yet again a weekly blog from me. I am getting consistent. Maybe that means I am becoming ready to be a mom. I am nesting in my own way. I can't do any real nesting as we will be moving soon, so I can't set up a nursery or anything yet, but I finally got the baby clothes laundry soap, and washed all of Roman's clothes. I plan to take all the new born clothes with me to the hospital for him, since I think by the time he leaves the hospital he will have out grown them. Oh did I mention, at the last sonogram they predicted he will be 9 plus pounds at birth.

My mom got us a gift certificate to get one of those fancy 3d sonograms. I was so excited. I talked to Roman all week prior, asking, ok begging him to cooperate so we could see his face and see what he will look like. He was very active all week, like he always is. Then the day of the sonogram, he is calm and quiet the whole day.

We went into the office and we start the sonogram, and what do you know, he has again wedged himself up against my uterine wall and his placenta. We were able to see the bottom half of his face as you can see from the sonograms. So what we do know is that he has his momma's lips and his daddy's nose, the rest he wouldn't show us.

I had to walk around. I had to jump, and wiggle, and turn on my side and contort in many different ways. I was given chocolate to get him some sugar, but to no avail. He would not show us the rest of his face. The tech was so enthralled with his lips that when he did the kissy faces she snapped a picture and then when he smiled she snapped another and let us have those. We have to go back to try again, and I am supposed to drink tons and tons of water and bring OJ with me for sugar jolts. So I am crossing my fingers that he is going to behave next time.

Roman has been very active like I said. He seems to like to wedge his butt up into my ribs. He will lean into my hand if I rub on my left side, which is cool, but at the same time it can hurt, because he can really push pretty hard into my left side. I can't wait for him to get here. I think he will be a real cuddler, and I am looking forward to that.