Kurt’s first kick

Tonight we were watching the three hour end of season special for Lost and Sophia was kicking around. I rolled the elastic off my belly and told Kurt to watch. She kicked and he saw – that was a definite kick! Kurt put his hand on my belly and finally got to *feel* his first kick.

Today we were playing City of Heroes and Sophia was kicking up a storm. She was kicking with more force than usual so I rolled the elastic down on my pants to see if the kicks were actually hard enough to see on the outside of my tummy and they are! It looks like a tiny muscle spasm but you can see it! I showed Kurt but when I asked him if he saw it – he wasn’t quite sure of what he was seeing.

Yesterday I finally managed to get Kurt to come to the baby store to check things out now that we know it’s a girl. I had a semi gender neutral snoopy themed decor picked out prior to knowing and asked him if he still wanted to stick with that. I pointed at a theme that I liked and he said he had his eye on that one too – The name of it is “sugar plum”. – my big strong man

I had my first ultrasound appointment yesterday and I called my parents immediately after, well after we went out to eat. This morning I sent out an email to everyone with pictures of the ultrasound.

One friend said:

Woo hoo a girl! I really like her name too, it’s so pretty. I always get a little chuckle though when one of our big bad male friends has a daughter! It always feels so just.

My reply:

Actually Kurt seemed a little relieved that it’s a girl. He has some strange idea that in order to be a good dad to a boy you’ve gotta play sports with him and Kurt isn’t into any sports. I kept telling him that a boy will mostly likely be attached to whatever sport/activity dad likes, which in Kurt’s case would be everything motorcycle. He’s already talking about a dirt bike for little Sophia.

Kurt’s mother said:

I have never seen an ultrasound before. I am surprised at how clear it is. She is BEAUTIFUL! But what the hell happened to Darth Jorgen?

My reply:

You should see the 3-D ultra sound pics they have out now. One of my co-workers got those and they’re kinda creepy. You actually see the face and they give it a flesh tone.

Oh and about Darth – Apparently Sophia won out during the great sperm war of January 2007.

That’s right Sophia – if you had been a boy there was a chance your name would have been Darth as in Darth Vader. Kurt even said once, “I hope he has asthma” – so that you would sound just like Darth. The other name he wanted was Erik, after his brother. My objection to that one was that it would seem like you were named after me, and Eric with a “k” just isn’t right.

Today, Mother’s day, I’m at the exact halfway point. I’ve been pregnant for four months and nineteen days and have four months and nineteen days to go – that’s if you’re going by the way that doctor’s measure pregnancy which begins on the first day of the last menstrual period and if the baby actually comes out on October first. Otherwise this entire post in null and void.

When I made my doctor appointment for today I asked if this would be the ultrasound appointment where I get to know the gender. “Oh we don’t do that here” she said, “They’ll have to give you a referral.” Damn it! Apparently they don’t have the ultrasound equipment there at their office. Kurt and I went to the appointment this afternoon…I now weigh 147 pounds!!!

The first baby kicks were pretty tiny but now they don’t feel like “kicks” at all. It’s more like I have a live fish swimming around in me.

The first general session got everyone excited the things they showed were very innovative and fun. The breakout sessions to follow were rather hit and miss as far as capturing interest and effectively showing a more in-depth view of the technologies being pushed. Evidence of this was seen by anyone that noticed all the tiny watch batteries on the floor from people bored or maybe curious enough to want to take apart the cool little penlights in our goody bag. I walked out of the Tuesday afternoon general session, apparently just before everyone else did. If it was really necessary to tell us “Why” we should be using these technologies then they are useless. I’m sure if it wasn’t obvious to us we would have been hanging out at the bars and gambling tables a lot more and not crowding ourselves into every corner of most sessions.

The free Microsoft software was a definite bonus and the food was quite surprisingly good especially the cheese blintzes with raspberry sauce for the Wednesday breakfast. Of course the coolest little gadget was the blue light “ice cubes” we stole from our glasses at the Mix07 party at the Pussycat Dolls Lounge in Caesars Palace courtesy of Silverlight.

The Venetian was a gorgeous venue for the conference, and I had a wonderful stay there with exception to the lack of hot water on Wednesday morning. On Monday and Tuesday it took quite awhile for the shower to warm up and on Tuesday night there was a note left after the nightly turn-down crew came through which informed those of us residing in that tower that the water would be completely turned off from midnight to 4am. I went to breakfast at a quarter after eight still un-showered. Not too big a deal I guess. I made sure to take a long shower before checking out though.

Ok this morning I know it was baby kicks I was feeling. I felt kicking for about thirty minutes around five in the morning.

I think I felt the baby kick. It felt like a cross between a muscle spasm and literally having a butterfly in my stomach.