Over the past few weeks we’ve had quite a few new developments. The three that come to mind are Christi’s belly and each boob... all three are growing at an unbelievable pace. Each morning Christi looks like Bruce Banner after a long Hulk rampage... Exhausted, stumbling around the kitchen, in pajamas that are torn to shreds from the rapid growth.
Aside from a couple episodes in the car, Christi’s flown through the morning sickness that accompanies the first trimester. One interesting development has been her acute sense of smell. When most people walk into a kitchen and smell a cake baking, they smell cake. Christi can smell: 2 cups of white sugar, 2 cups of flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, semi-sweet chocolate icing (that’s recently expired). The good news is that we can use her to find grub-worms in the backyard this spring.
Christi is now 14 ½ weeks pregnant. As each week passes, parenthood becomes more real. We’ve now transitioned from Dr. Vaughn (the in vitro doctor) to Christi’s regular OB-GYN, Dr. Seeker. There have been several sonograms and the babies are growing fast. They are now the size of lemons and are already fighting. Yes, even through the sonogram’s grainy picture, you can see a couple of little aliens punching each other like Rock‘em Sock’em Robots. I think we are in for a long, long 18 years.
