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As an exciting new pregnancy symptom, I has sciatica for 3 days a week ago, and then it gradually got better and was gone, until half an hour when I was coming down the stairs, and it's baaaaack. Again on the right side, basically feels like my hip joint is sore and radiates down my leg. And I was good this weekend and exercised - raked the front yard (some people have grass; right now I have moss) and dug over the pea bed in the back yard. Casper helped with the latter, by pushing the shovel in with her foot SO CUTE and helpful, but she really needs her own, smaller shovel. Need I say that doing the yard work made me so happy, even though it was quite cold. Must remember this. Will plant peas next weekend. My daffodils are still shoots, and I have tulip shoots too, although now many of my neighbors have blooming daffs. Iris look happy and strong. Everything else still pretty much dormant.

Placing that Amazon order for the yoga DVD tonight.

In other weekend news, mr. flea and Casper went on a date together to see Curious George and I watched biathlon (very tense! exciting!) and took a nap. Was so proud of mr. flea - they got to the Mother of All Malls and the theater was sold out, but he resourcefully went to the Apple store and looked up the other local theater's showtimes and locale on their internet, and then killed the ensuing time before the next showing playing educational video games with Casper. (She appears to be good at matching things - he said the only mistake she made was when shown a fish she matched it to the elephant instead of to the hook with a worm on and, and since she's never seen anyone fish, how would she figure that out? I mean, logically, it is sort of odd.)

In other Armadillo news, now that I get wiggles it feels real again (19 weeks tomorrow). We have our sex-determining ultrasound (yes, I know that's not why they do it, but assuming all is well that's the main result for the parents) a week from Wednesday. Early on I was terrified at the idea of having a boy (different! from what I know! has a penis!), but now I think it is a boy, and am happy with that. Amazing how one can work on one's own mind. Of course, I wanted Casper to be a boy and thought she was until the ultrasound, and what we got has certainly worked out fine.

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[loligo.livejournal.com]

So, have you told Casper about the sibling yet? We haven't, and I'm not sure how to go about it. But we need to make a decision about it in the next several weeks, thanks to the ultrasound appointment: our doctors only do ultrasounds at their local office in the afternoons -- if we want a morning appointment, we've got to drive half an hour to their other office. And Chuckles only has preschool in the morning. So we may fill her in on the new development and let her come along to the ultrasound (and of course tell the tech to save any scary stuff to discuss w/o her present).

I don't know. That might be weird. But we know she's already on board with the basic "babies in tummies" idea because they've talked about it at school, so we wouldn't be starting completely from scratch.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

We talk about it some in front of Casper but haven't actually sat down and explained it to her. I have been pointing out babies and talking about other people who are getting siblings (two of her classmates at school are expecting siblings within 2 weeks of us!). I was thinking of waiting until we have the 20-week ultrasound to explain it all - then we'll have a picture, and can tell her if it's a boy or a girl which I think will go some way to making it real. She does know that babies grow in tummies, though I'm not sure where she picked that up.

[cashmerepett.livejournal.com]

the sciatic SUCKS! Sorry you have to deal with that.

Good luck with the big sister stuff with Casper. Owen was just too young to get any comprehension before Olivia got here.