again, i have been neglecting the hockey. neglecting to mention it in here, anyway. go red wings! see, i have to root for the wings because every other year in history i have rooted against them just to irk david. now that david is all moved away and i miss him, i feel like i should root for his team. my mom had been pulling for the avs, but after the massacre that was game 7 in the western conference finals, she said "i see red!" and changed her tune. she passed out the other night after the 2nd OT - she couldn't last any longer. my dad likes to make stupid comments about things my mother & i do, just because he's like that. if he walks through while we're watching hockey, one of his favorite things to say is "blood on ice!" where he got that from, i don't know. i thought of him during the third OT, though, when duchesne took that puck in the mouth.
... morewow, that ultrasound was really cool. i've seen other people's pictures before, and i've always just been like "ok ..." sometimes i can't even make out a baby in there. i have to say, though, that being there and being able to see everything on the screen is everything compared to those silly little pictures. the little bugger in my tummy was going crazy! it's hard to realize that it's already moving around like that since i can't feel anything yet. when the little hand was on the screen, i had no idea that was the hand until the technician told me. "see, there's five little fingers right there!" just hearing that made me so happy. i don't know why i've been on this paranoia trip thinking that my child is going to come out with webbed feet & hands or something equally scary.
i have to go back to the lab this afternoon because when i went friday before last, they didn't do all the tests they were supposed to do. yay. because there's a history of diabetes in my family, i'm being tested early for gestational diabetes. i get to drink some nasty extra-sweet stuff, wait around for an hour and then have blood drawn. i am so excited, let me tell you. i'm so sick of being poked and prodded. hopefully, after today, i won't have anything else to do until i go back for my next office exam which isn't until the 20th. when i went to the endocrinologist last week, he seemed to think i'm just fine. they did draw more blood, to check again, but he said that he thinks my levels are normal and that there's nothing to worry about. he says that my midwife is just very careful and anything that's slightly suspicious, she'll check up on again. that's a bit comforting, just because i have that same streak in my personality. so even though in this case i'm on the receiving end, and it's sometimes making me quite nervous, i'd much rather her be extra careful than lax.
so, i'm off to hang out at the lab. hooray!