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Ultrasound: 04/15/06

Yesterday everything went well. For the blood work I was able to walk right in. Then for the ultrasound, they wanted to take me an hour early! As I knew that Ian and Sean were coming, I stalled until 4:30. By then I was in desperate need to use the toilet and couldn't wait any longer. A full bladder is needed for the important scans and one is required to drink about 32 ounces of water before the test. For a pregnant lady, that requirement is borderline torture!

Anyway, I had a really gentle and nice technician named Mohamed. He let me run to the bathroom after about half an hour of taking scans. Then he concentrated on taking the scans that we could take home. Since he knew we wanted to be told our child's gender, he called in a radiologist at the end to make the call. She was much rougher that he was but she did manage to get a good scan showing that our baby is a girl!

Near the end of the scan, Ian and Sean showed up. Seeing me on the hospital bed really worried Sean. He thought I must be very sick and kept asking me if I would be all better soon. I tried to tell him that I was perfectly fine and that we were just checking on the baby but he didn't believe me. Eventually Ian had to take Sean out for a bathroom break and some fresh air. The ultrasound was just too off-putting for him. Ian missed seeing that we are having a girl but I got to see it.

Afterwards we went to Carrow's to celebrate the good news. Sean wanted to ride in my car just to be sure that I really was okay after all. He had with him a huge basket of plastic Easter eggs that he had found during his field trip to the park near his new school. During dinner he and I looked inside each and every one together.

Lost in Fremont:

This morning we decided to head down to Fry's for a couple of computer parts. It should have been an easy drive but Ian didn't exactly know where we were going and I had no clue where we were going. As Fremont isn't that large, we didn't stop for directions. Eventually we had to stop for lunch and a potty break for Sean. Then Ian looked up the address and we tried again. At four o'clock, after four hours of circling in and around Fremont we finally found the place.

More Legos:

On the way home we took the 680 up to Pleasanton where we stopped at the Lego store to use most of Sean's recent Easter money to get more Legos for his collection. For $12 one can fill up a large plastic cup with any sort of loose Lego from the wall of Legos. We took a little bit of everything to augment the collection we started earlier this year. Now we have trees, wheels, windows, doors and all sorts of other nifty things.

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