Sorry, no pictures
Yeah, I know... I'm sure if I had taken a business class, the phrase "never over-promise" would be very familiar. I seem to remember saying something last time about having pictures from the next visit. Well, I knew some people (*cough*ourfolks*cough) were excited to see more blurry pictures of aliens (as were we), but the doc didn't bring in the ultrasound machine this time, and I wasn't going to be that guy who demands the doctor inconvenience himself for something so minor. I mean c'mon, the babies are still healthy and growing, what else IS there to ask for?
Heartbeats
However, we did get to experience something new this time... we got to hear the babies' heartbeats! It was very exciting! Have you ever taken a 33 rpm record and turned up the speed to 66 rpm? Take that sound, send it through your grandparents cheap old amplifier from the 50s, connect a tinny old walkie-talkie speaker to it, and that's about what it sounded like. It certainly isn't a new adventure in hi-fi, but still very exciting.
(I would have loved to have used a star wars analogy here. The sound reminded me of playing X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter... pew pew pew! However, after the pos movies they put out in the last 5 years, and the new non-anamorphic money-grubbing original box set coming out, I simply have no respect for the franchise anymore. At all. Do yourself a favor and go see some good sci-fi.)
The next visit is the big-mutha ultrasound visit. July 5th. They do a complete anatomy scan of each with a high-res ultrasound unit. That will be the gender-determining visit. :) I'll be sure to have a lot of pictures then! I also hope to put up a poll for gender-guessing in the next week or so, so stay tuned.
Cold Turkey
Those of you who know Robyn at all know that she is a Diet Coke fiend. There's a lot of controversy about diet sodas during pregnancy. So, what's Robyn doing about it? With my vast medical background, I suggested she cut back to one Diet Coke a week. Reluctantly, she accepted. (Probably, for as much as any reason, on the chance there is something wrong, I can't demonize Diet Coke as the cause.) So the holy DC is a treat she cherishes once a week. We often go out someplace over the weekend where she gets it. Last weekend, she "took communion" at home, so I snapped a couple of action shots...
ohhh yeahhhhh.....