Roy gets his first kick from the baby!

Roy felt the baby for the first time Monday night. Li'l baby Janelle has been kicking me and moving around for several weeks now, but every time Roy put his hand on my stomach, she'd get very still. It was almost like a game with our little stinker! Finally, on Monday, Roy and I were talking and he had his hand on my stomach, and she decided then to give him a good kick! :D :D :D

Our 24 week sonogram

This video is amazing. Shortly after beginning, the tech zoomed in on the baby's face, and you can very clearly see our baby opening and closing her mouth. (Gives me goosebumps!) You also get a good view in the video of her feet, spine, and ribs. But the closeups of her face are just really amazing!!

Our little stinker is a...

… GIRL!! Roy and I went in this afternoon for our second try at seeing what this baby is (last time, baby’s legs were crossed and curled up), and it’s a girl!! Little stinker did still have her legs crossed again this time, but the tech managed to get a good look when she kicked a few times. Needless to say, Roy and I are really, really happy! :) :) :)

I'll post the video from the sonogram tomorrow. :D :D :D

Lizzie

I just have to post this... Look how beautiful Lizzie (my baby sister) is. I was going through her myspace pictures, and I totally stole these from her. These are a couple of my favorites.





Love ya *BABE*!!

My first preggo picture post

Well, I figure the time has come for me to post a preggo picture of myself. As you can tell in the picture below, I'm definitely showing. This picture was taken about two weeks ago when I was at 20 weeks. Today, I noticed that I can no longer see my toes when I look down. :P

More U2 Humor

In continuing with the U2-related humor, I found some funny U2-ish clips online. Thought I'd share with you guys. Enjoy!

Vertigo (U2) Spoof

A friend of mine sent this to me, and it just had me rolling!! HILARIOUS!!

Here's our li'l stinker

Below is the video from our sonogram yesterday. It's a nice, long video since the poor technician was trying to turn every which way to figure out if this baby's a boy or girl. :D Looks like this babe was just chillin' out!

It's a...

...BABY!!!! A very shy baby. A baby who kept its legs crossed at the ankles the entire sonogram. My new name for the baby? The Stinker! ;D

Ah well. My shopping spree will have to wait. We'll have another try on October 16th, when they do another sonogram to re-check the umbilical cord. This sonogram was amazing, though -- we saw a close-up of the baby's heart, the spine, the face, feet, its little rump, stomach, bladder, cute little button nose. It's a healthy, wonderful baby ... but still a stinker!!

We were able to record the sonogram again this time, so I'll digitize the video tomorrow if our studio is available, and I'll post it tomorrow evening.

So, we have a little less than four weeks to go before we get another chance to see what this baby is. Wish us luck!!

Project Playlist

Yet again, my 17-yr old sister Lizzie showed me another really cool site. (My apologies if you've known about this for years.) Project Playlist lets you build a playlist of songs for you to post on your myspace, facebook, or any other social network site. I've permanently added my "Pandora Favorites" playlist on my Facebook account. I've also posted it below so you can get a preview of the wonderful music I'm finding on Pandora. Thanks Lizzie!

Next sonogram (aka "the big one")...

Greetings guys and dolls. My apologies for the delay in posting anything. Things have just been busy this summer. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that the next big sonogram (aka "the big one") will be on Sept.20th at 2:30pm. We'll find out then what this baby is -- a boy or a girl. (!!!) We'll post when we find out! :D

Baby Super Model!

Roy and I just had our third sonogram this morning, so I figure I should get on the ball and post some pictures!! (No problems or anything -- I had my first at 5 weeks, which was too early, and my second was last week, and today's was part of some routine testing.) Baby Adams, fyi, is currently the size of a large lime ... at least according to the books and websites we've been reading. *grin*

Below are scans of the sonogram from last week. This morning's pictures still need to be scanned; however, we did get a dvd of the procedure so I captured it and uploaded it to Google Video. Enjoy!!

Click on the images below to see a larger view.

July 12 (10 weeks, 4 days)







July 17 (11 weeks, 2 days)

Baby Adams Blog Debut!

Hi Folks! Last week Roy and I went in for our first sonogram. At that time, the baby was the size of a small grain of rice. This week, the baby's about the size of a peppercorn. I've uploaded the picture from the sonogram. It's two shots side by side. If you click on the image and go to the flickr page, I have notes on the image explaining what you see. :D

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!

Roy and I found out last Friday at that are expecting! I'm about 4-5 weeks along right now, and the baby will be due around Feb.4. Can you believe it?!?! Needless to say, Roy and I are really ecstatic!

Watch out world - Roy's got a digital camera!

Roy's birthday is coming up (May 30), and last month I got him a digital camera. Now he's snapping pictures left and right. He's even created his own Flickr collection of photos. Below are some of my favorites. (As always, click the image to see a larger view.)

Do you Jaiku?

I posted recently on Edugeek Journal about Twitter vs. Jaiku, and I'm quickly moving over completely to Jaiku. Really nice functionality and just too easy to use and incorporate other feeds. I'm planning on putting a widget to this blog so you guys can get minute-to-minute updates on just what I'm up to ... b/c I'm sure you're just dying to know! :P

Can't Stop the Serenity - June 23!

Attention Browncoats in the DFW area! Be sure to pick up your "Can't Stop the Serenity" tickets soon! Your chance to enjoy "Serenity" on the big screen and support a charity all at the same time!

Catching up... March Dallas Comic Con

I have absolutely no excuse for not posting in such a long time. So, as I sit here at a Starbucks in the Austin Radisson hotel, I realize that I have internet connectivity and time to kill. So, let's catch up...

Back in March (I know, it's been too long...) I attended the Dallas Comic Con fan day, and there were several special guests that were of interest. I originally went to meet Morena Baccarin (Inara, from Firefly), but I ended up getting to meet some other actors. (It turns out I'm much more of a geek than I'd originally realized!)

Morena Baccarin - She was nice, but very rushed. Not nearly as cozy an experience as Ron Glass, but then again there were about 100 folks behind me in line, so I understand.



Clare Kramer - (Glory from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") At that time, I hadn't yet seen Clare's character in "Buffy", but I decided to meet her and snap a picture b/c I knew I'd end up loving the character. And sure enough, now that I know who Glory is, I cannot believe I actually met her. She's such a funny/interesting/great character in the show. Anyway, she was incredibly nice!



Ernie Hudson - (Winston from "Ghostbusters") I couldn't resist getting my picture taken with a Ghostbuster! He was so incredibly nice, too. And it was cool seeing the various Ghostbuster fans walking around in full costume.



Walter Koenig - (Chekov from "Star Trek") Nice man. Made me realize just how long ago the Star Trek show and movies came out. He seemed very tired when I met him, but then the ST fans that were in the "line" were kind of ... fanatics... so I'd be tired too.



Peter Mayhew - (Chewbacca from "Star Wars") Nice man. It was the end of the day, and he was nice enough to smile for a quick picture as things were closing up.



Good times!

My Heroes Theory....

Damn, I love this show. I have never before speculated so much on the future of characters in a tv show. I was just discussing a theory that I came up with, and I received approval/interest from two friends, so I figure it's legit enough for me to post it here.

*Takes deep breath*

Ok... we know that Hiro from the future goes back in time to tell Peter to 'save the cheerleader...." We find out from the online novels that the reason he did this is b/c when Sylar was about to explode, Hiro stabs him but Sylar heals and proceeds to blow himself up. Hiro says that this is b/c Claire can heal herself and that Sylar got her brain; however, we don't know if hiro knows this for sure or if he just assumes it b/c he knows about claire's ability. However, claire is not the only "healer" in this group. Which might explain why after informing Peter about saving Clair, Hiro goes back into the future and nyc is still leveled. What if instead Hiro stabs Sylar, Linderman heals sylar (we know L. wants the explosion to happen b/c this puts N.P. into office), Sylar explodes, nyc still leveled, and saving the chearleader didn't really help anyone ... except Claire. Maybe Hiro did change history, but Linderman somehow either found out about it and made the future still happen ("you can't fight the future") or just ended up being in the right place at the right time.

What d'ya think??

Very cool "No Cellphones" advert