Geek Habitat

I lied. We did not get around to taking any “belly shots” (sounds for all the world like something one would order in a bar), aka pregnancy photos, this weekend. Instead, we …

• bought and installed new lights for our front porch with the help of Justin’s parents.
• picked out a pair of comfortable slip-on shoes for me (a $109 pair of SAS shoes, absolutely free, thanks to the gift certificate I won at this year’s annual SAS Siesta Valley Ranch Walk in October!
• made some progress starting our Christmas decorating

I haven’t been posting much about the baby lately, in part because we’re in that four week span of time between appointments (they shift to once every two weeks after mid-January). The other, more honest reason is I’ve been a little stressed and paranoid these past several weeks (”Welcome to parenthood!” I hear all the parents saying, in unison.) Why? After a couple weeks of getting used to Sprout being my little “wiggle worm,” active enough that I felt her every couple days, I stopped really feeling her. I’d get little flutters here or there, but ceased to be very certain they were her vs. my body playing pregnancy tricks on me.

Justin and I are rewatching Star Trek: Voyager on DVD. We are in the seventh season and recently watched the episode, “Lineage,” where Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres discover they are expecting a baby.

Paris asks father of four, Tuvok, for advice and his answer is perfect:

“Offspring can be disturbingly illogical, yet profoundly fulfilling. You should anticipate paradox.”
- Lt. Commander Tuvok