Sorry about the hiatus.....i just needed a break from the whole loving Katy thing. Shes such a boring little baby and i thought if i was an absent father for awhile it would make her realize she better bring her A game or daddy goes bye bye again!
Orrrrr ive just had writers block when it comes to writing about a baby who is not here yet and hasnt had any real milestones since she was like -20 weeks old. You decide which i guess.
We've had some good news and some bad news recently.
Good news....were getting another ultra sound
Bad new.....its because Lindy got the gestational sugar'betes
Honestly i think the doctors are just being cautious with her. She did test high on her glucose tests but ever since shes been taking her blood sugar after regular meals shes not tested high.....so yeah. Either way MORE ULTRASOUND PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!
Katy is super active lately and its funny because i can literally wake her up and get her to punch and kick wherever im pushing in on Lindy's stomach.
We have obviously settled in on the Katy spelling and like i said its not really a huge deal either way to me.
So yeah! 9 or 10 more weeks to go but expect an update when we get our ultra sound pics too
Oh boy! Major parental issue blog time. Katy is her name....no doubt, thats it, ship the birth certificate on that one except for onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne little thing.....the spelling. Lindy has been pro K A T Y this whole time and im in the K A T I E camp.
Lindy has a couple good arguments.
1) the middle name is marie so she thinks it looks better with a Y on the first name so its not IE name IE name and i kinda agree but am meh on the point overall.
2) Katy/ie's name is katy/ie not Katelynn. This i do agree with big time. If her name is spelled Katy on like roll sheets and formal documents then it should be fairly obvious her name is Katy and not Katelynn.
I counter with
1) No! I like the way Katie looks better and so does a majority of the population, hence why you can find fridge magnets and such with Katie on them much more often than you see them with Katy on them.
2) Well thats really all i got.
I think we are going to settle on Katy because thats what weve been typing it as, Lindy likes it better and if Lindy aint happy nobody is happy, and it will be easy to let Katy know she can spell it however she likes it. I have a friend whose birth certificate name is Tyson, she went by Tye and throughout high school spelled it Tye, Tie, Ty, etc.
I hope we choose the right way to make katy as normal as possible but if not.......add more money to our monthly "we messed up and now were paying for it via therapist" account for Katy/ie
At this point I'm wondering how any parents screw up really. Dont they have access to all these wonderful books, websites, etc? In our 25th week of pregnancy Lindy and I have already talked over every imaginable situation and value that we could possibly have to deal with/instill in our little Katy and all of our future children. (you hear that y chromosomes? We will keep going until one of you gets it right!)
From religion, to temper tantrums over a toy we refuse to get, to alcohol abuse in high school, we got this covered! What could possible go wrong here that we havent read about and are 100% ready to tackle head on?
Seriously though im finding it hard to write new blogs. Katy is at that boring stage and shes not even born yet. Do i still get pumped and giddy when she kicks while im feeling lindy's stomach? Of course. Do Lindy and i talk about katy as if she is here already, discussing her bubbly personality and sure to be awesome laugh? LDO. But do i think that you all want to read that or really that i could type much more about it than what i just did??? Not really
Lindy and i do not have it figured out obviously. There will be unforeseen situations and reactions to everything we do. We will make mistakes, and we will proly surprise ourselves in a few situations. The important thing is we are taking an active role and giving things a lot of thought. We know how we want to raise our family and we know what we want to instill and are being very involved in learning way to do that and that is honestly all anybody can do.
So Katy is growing FAST! Like i said she was already at the top of her 20 week range and now within 2 weeks she has pushed Lindy's belly button out (YUCK!) and kicks non stop. We can see and feel the kicks on the outside of the stomach now and its crazy.
Weve been reading that you can play games with the baby while its still in utero. Like for instance when Katy kicks we will push back on that spot. Allegedly it gets the baby thinking and more often than not she will kick back in the same spot and often times harder. Might just be a coincidence, might be good for the baby, either way its pretty funny and makes me feel like i actually am part of the Katy's life right now, so thats cool. Another thing we read is that babies have a good sense of rhythm from the time they are in utero on. So many parents will play Mozart, Bethoven, stuff that some say will make your baby smarter.....what did we choose to play for Katy?
Now we just have to cross our fingers that Sinatra will calm her down when shes a loud crying baby.
In early December we made an appointment with a private ultrasound place to determine what the gender was....at the last second we decided meh lets wait it out and save the 100 bucks. At first i was like no big deal, what is a 3 or 4 weeks in the grand scheme of things. Up until about the 3 of January that is. With the gender date that 6th right in sight i was losing it...BIG TIME! Lindy was going nuts, pink or blue whats it gonna be. There is only so much gender neutral stuff one can register for until insanity starts to kick in .
Last night i was up until about 3am. I was a little preoccupied messing around on the internet but really my mind was racing. Its our first baby, boy or girl im going to be happy. But lets be real here, being a dad to a boy, and being a dad to a girl are two totally different things. Seriously though i would be just as happy either way. So we drove to the hospital and talked the whole way about how excited we were.
The nurse hooked up the ultra sound and we were off. Of course baby ______ was not being cooperative at first. Baby _______ was rolling around, crossing its legs, flipping us off, just everything it could do and then in one swift motion captured on the monitor the gender was shown. We both grinned ear to ear and watched the rest of the ultrasound as baby _______ got high grade after high grade on it's development of organs, limbs, etc.
Yup still perfect!
Perfect little foot!
Such high grades in fact that i think Lindy might be due in a few weeks and not a few months. Typical babies at 20 weeks weigh about 11ounces. Our baby measured in at 15!!!! Thank god us dads dont have to push that out. I have never been more pro epidural than right now thinking that our baby is about 33% bigger than most babies. God bless you Lindy.
We left the hospital and went for a big celebratory meal (which is about an average meal for lindy nowadays......ok who am i kidding its an average meal for both of us). We finished up and went shopping for the most gender defining outfits we could find and we bought 6 total outfits at once!!! Boy or girl can you say spoiled.
So a big day today and were happy with our perfect little........baby
Boy or girl? Wow what a big date coming up on the 6th of Jan. If its a boy i will have to invest heavily into some hardcore beating sticks etc to keep him in line. I mean one, its my son and i wasnt exactly the easiest little boy to keep in line. 2) we are naming him "Cash Davidson" No middle name, just bad ass Cash Davidson. I cant imagine him being an artsy well behaved kid, but more a hellion who i am on a first name basis with his teachers and 13 yo girls refusing to babysit......
.....speaking of 13yo girls JFC if its a girl. Obv some big fears there and i will quote Bill Simmons since i think he summed it up really well, "when she's in the ninth grade, I can't have some senior showing up with a Gasol beard, a USC hat and an SUV shaking my hand and saying that they're 'just going out for a bite to eat,' only he's going to have that barely perceptible, 'I've felt your daughter's boobs before, and I'm going to do it again tonight' smirk on his face, followed by me stabbing him to death and serving the mandatory sentence" So it is safe to say i will be stockpiling pump action shotguns if its a girl. We have also already picked her name out and it would be "Katy Marie Davidson"
I am honestly really happy, nervous, excited no matter what the gender is. There is pros and cons to both. The cons ive mentioned but the pros of a boy are obvious with sports, carrying on the family name, etc. And if its a girl i could still do some participating in girly sports (i.e. soccer) and at the same time i would never have to discipline her and make sure she knows that shes not allowed to talk to boys until shes at least 25.
I have another blog ready to write but ill wait awhile as it will be just as relevant in a few weeks as it is now. And i keep thinking of some things from time to time but by the time im home i forget the topic so i will start writing those down.
Uhhhhhhhhh christmas was great and "Pat" made out awesome with a swing, some stuffed animals, blankets, a rocking chair, and some other stuff. Lindy and i did alright too but most important is we spent it together and lived within our tax bracket. Oh and we took our first annual family pics which was actually pretty grown up and fun of us.
A couple of statements. Babies are cute. Babies need diapers changed. The writer of this blog HATES poop. I almost gagged just writing that last statement. My parents joke that when i was a baby i would make this stink face when i was.....well, when i was shitting myself in my diaper. Any time i come in contact with poop of any kind i gag and near throw up. One of my biggest concerns about having a baby has always been whether i was going to be expected to change poopy diapers.
As the thought of being just weeks away from having a baby creep in i have gradually come to terms with a couple things
1) i most likely will have to change poop diapers
2) it might not be that bad (yes ive sort of bought into the "when its ur child" bs)
3) YUCK!!!! Im going to have to change poopy diapers.
Hey, its progress. I mean a couple years of dealing with poo....UGH FINE, whatever! Now being an only child and not really remembering back to when i was 2 or 3 i never really knew the details of potty training. Ok for the first 2 years or so a child is in diapers, i got that. Then you teach them to use their own little toilet....i forgot about that to be honest but yeah ok. Sick that i have to empty that out but hey at least I'm not wiping poop butt anymore amirite....
Well it turns out i am not right at all! Apparently my wife has known all along and none of my friends bothered to tell me, when ur kid starts using the toilet.....YOU STILL HAVE TO WIPE THEIR BUTT!!!!! YUCK! I cannot believe what i have signed up for here.
At first sure, whatever little baby poo and from what i read it doesnt even smell bad until they go on solid foods, but after that gag, yuck, gross! I have to reference back to Louis CK here who addressed my fear head on that once your child starts eating solid foods it doesnt poo, it CRAPS!
(Go to 1:40 in if you want to skim right through)
And apparently even after you teach your kid to go to the bathroom, they are still not capable of wiping their own butt. So guess who gets to.....ME!
Seriously my mind was blown over this.
Other than this realization nothing really significant has happened on the baby front and thus why i have not written an update in awhile. We are officially 14 days away from gender determination which will be huge. And we have a few things left to get the baby like a swing, and i dont know really because to be honest....we have a crib, some diapers, a car seat, a stroller and i just kind of think the rest is details.
So ill try to post more random thoughts on baby stuff when it comes up but this should really take off after we have the baby.
