Comic Relief

Things haven't changed much for us since yesterday, so I'm going to post an arrangement of some of Matt's pictures that he took on his trip out to California and Oregon. In the spirit of Japan...
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Bean counter

So another day goes by. Shizuka is still a bit morning sick, but we went to the doctor today and were told that that should be going away fairly soon. I saw a live feed of the sonogram for the first time today. So strange. It has arms and legs. It looked like it was just chilling out in there, maybe a little upset that we were bothering it. Not unlike me when I wake up in the night to find that my covers have been taken.

Shizuka had already told me that it was a nice hospital, but today I got to find out for myself. They were playing British opera in the waiting room, followed by Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. And, as we were leaving(this is the kicker), they provided us with a double disk set of "Maternity Mozart" to play for the unborn prince or princess.

I didn't accomplish anything else today, which is a little dis-heartening. But tomorrow is another day.

Hopefully not our last post

So, here it is, as promised. Our weblog. I lost a bet and now we have to write this thing. Feel free to comment.

We have some catching up to do, so I guess we ought to start by posting pics of the new addition to the family. :) Shizuka has another appointment at the clinic tomorrow, so we should have another photo by noon-ish.

My initial reaction was that the little tyke looks a lot more like a bean than anything else, so I started to call it Beanie. I thought they were not going to let me continue to call it that, but it seems that everyone is referring to it as Mame-chan now, which is the Japanese equivalent of Beanie. The top picture is 8 weeks in and the botton is 10 weeks.

So, yah. That's our first post and there should be plenty more to follow.