Breaking the news to our Fur Babies, among other things

So we love our fur babies and treat them better than probably some children are treated in the world. Sad but true. We have been a little concerned with telling them that there will be a new addition to our family. In their presence we have sort of spoken around the issue and haven’t really let them in on the secret yet. Imagine my surprise when I realized that Zamboni did know. I know this because whenever the dogs and I travel to see Karlis, Zamboni ALWAYS rides on my lap. I drive this massive diesel Ford Excursion when I travel so actually it is more on the arm rest and not on me. Well Karlis warned me that that must stop since my stomach is now carrying not only our future child but something that caused us much sweat, tears and money to produce. So when we went down on our trip to see Karlis for the weekend I was shocked when Zamboni didn’t even make a move for my stomach. He has to know, there is no other explanation. What a good little dog! I think we will still wait to break the news to the other two. There might be a problem with each of them. Biscuit is a t-tiny bit possessive of her mom. OK, I have family that reads this and they are gasping at this statement. I must fess up she is really really possessive of her mom. I don’t know how well she is going to take to sharing HER lap with someone else. She usually loves children but they kind of make her nervous so we will probably have to do a little extra work with her. Lastly, on to Slim. He has a completely different issue. He likes to, well um, I am stalling here. Ok I will just say it…he likes to hump small children. We have no idea where he got this undesirable act. I swear we don’t. He just gets so excited that he starts shaking and then he makes a move. We will really have to do some extra work with him.

So a week has gone by since our last ultrasound. I feel like every normal sick as you know what pregnant women. I feel like pooh 87.6% of the time (and yes that is exact, I did a study on it). If my stomach is not COMPLETELY full I don’t feel good, almost flu-like. I can sleep for about 12 hours with no problem. Then I can lie in the bed the entire day and not think a thing about it. On an interesting side note I have had the hiccups at least once every day since the day I found out I was pregnant; very strange. I still don’t like anything to touch my stomach and that really makes wearing a seat belt hard. I am one of those people that have to pull it out and hold it a little loosely at my shoulder to keep the pressure off my stomach. I know not the safest of things but I am hoping that will get better as soon as my belly is so ginormous that it goes over the belt; which shouldn’t be too long from now. I have many friends that still think I have more than one in there. Guess we will see at the next ultrasound on Tuesday of next week. We are still cautiously excited but I look forward to seeing the heartbeat again. It was amazing.

Lastly the sex of the baby has been a really hot topic. There is a little story behind this that comes all the way from Latvia. When people get sick there they have so many rituals, superstitions, etc. that we don’t have here. My mother-in-law, Gaida got sick a few years ago and visited a wizard (I assume this is what we call a psychic but Karlis insists it is a wizard). Anyway after she got the answers she wanted regarding her sickness she asked about us and if we would have children. The lady said yes and was about to say 2 but then changed it to 1 and said it would be a girl with curly hair. Ok I generally don’t believe in that stuff but the curly hair statement was a little ironic. Now I wonder if her first instinct of 2 was possibly the twin we maybe lost with this pregnancy. If we go by the heartbeat rate we heard the other day it is definitely a boy. Karlis and I have felt strongly from the beginning that it would be a girl. We have some family and friends that feel strongly that it is a boy and others that are convinced it is a girl. A little IVF fact is that more girls are overall produced from IVF but more boys are produced from a 5 day transfer, which we did. Either way it will be exciting to see.