Baby Bump at 22 Weeks & Other Random Stuff

To the left you can see my baby's baby bump.  She's not all that happy about the shape her body is assuming.  I however, am excited.  

You may also notice a strange picture in the bottom right of the picture.  MSNBC was doing one of their prison documentaries when I took this picture.  What you see there is an x-ray of a prison inmate at about waist level.  The solid white object at the edge of the frame is the homemade shank he has shoved in a place we will not name.  I have impeccable timing.

I'm going to guess that it's normal for expectant parents to imagine all of the incredibly important, grand and historic things their child is going to accomplish: first astronaut to walk on the moon without a space suit, using nothing but the power of awesome to sustain them;  first person to summit Everest dressed in formal wear, using only a walking stick and a pair of good sunglasses; President of the World, a role reluctantly accepted after a massive public outcry that only Max/Kaylee could be as awesome as was needed to save the world; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Literature, Chemistry, and Medicine (simultaneously); inventor of whatever it is that ends world hunger; destroyer of hippies....just off the top of my head.

Of course the reality is that I don't care what the kid does as long as he/she is happy and healthy and roots for the Lakers.   

We haven't had a doctor's visit in a couple weeks.  We're getting to month six, at which point we'll be having a sonogram every week until the birth, just to keep an eye on things.  The amniocentisis results came back fine, so at this point it is just the doctors wanting to keep an eye on things, not an active search for something they think is there.

Overall things are going smoothly, Alison is still handling this whole thing very well, and other than a certain amount of indecisiveness about exactly what it is that she wants to eat at any given time, there really hasn't been any of the really tough stuff that I've heard about.   

We went walking around the 'we poop more money than you make' section of Dallas today.  Houses with columns and wrought iron gates, and stone lions outside the doorways.  It was a gorgeous day and I have to say, it's not quite Seattle on the first sunny day of Spring, but it was pretty sweet.

'Til next time...