fuzzy baby!

Owen is going to be a big brother. Fuzzy Baby is due Jan 1. This is his 20 week ultrasound. Fuzzy Baby was named at his 9 week ultrasound, where he looked like a fuzzy blob- unlike Owen who at 11 weeks had a clear head and nubber arms and legs which wiggled frantically- thus we named Owen "the Nubber" when he was a fetus. Fuzzy Baby lived up to his name at his 20 week ultrasound- his bits and pieces seemed obvious to the technician, but we could make out very little of them. The technician definitly saw boy parts, verifying Owen's belief all along that he would be getting a brother. This is the only picture we got of him- a bit more frightening than Owen's cute profile picture at 20 weeks. We suspect Fuzzy Baby will come into focus and get a proper name this holiday season.

Owen is very excited about becoming a big brother, most of the time. For a while, I think he thought that the baby was in his belly. Now it's pretty obvious that it's in my belly. He tells us the various things that he will be teaching the baby- like that he has to wear shoes upstairs because it is under construction. Hopefully that won't be the case by the time Fuzzy Baby wears shoes... Yesterday he was a little less sure about being a big brother, but I told him how special he would always be because he got to do everything first, like drive a car. So he is now very excited about driving Fuzzy Baby and Laurel to the coast to go to the aquarium.

As I mentioned, Owen has been sure all along that Fuzzy Baby is a boy- he looked at the 9 week blob picture and tried to show us how this clearly was a picture of a boy. Either Owen is lucky, or will be an excellent ultrasound technician one day.