Big News: It's a...

And the news you have all been waiting for, whether you knew you were waiting or not, is finally here. Britt had her 20 week checkup today and the doctor says everything looks great. Good heart-rate, there's a brain in there, correct number of chambers in the heart, and hands feet and everything else you would like to see.

But, I am sure none of you care much about the details right now, you just want to know what kind of baby it is already. Well, before I tell you let me first give you the details of how we found out. As you can see from the pictures below, we had the doctor slip the ultrasound photo in an envelope this morning. Britt went off to work with the envelope (I don't think she trusted her husband) and we met up at the end of the day and took the envelope to the park. We opened it in Washington Park this afternoon as we watched the wildfire enhanced sunset and the rest is history. You'll just have to look through the photos to find out the news for yourselves.

Much to our surprise, and contrary to a lot of hippie wisdom and one clairvoyant woman we met in Telluride, our baby-to-be is a girl! We could not be happier.

...The envelope please

Britt is now past the midway point of her pregnancy and that means the baby is no longer a guppy. This baby is now a very active boy or girl. Britt and I will go in for her 20 week appointment this Friday. In addition to performing a battery of tests tracking Britt and baby's progress, we will also be finding out the sex of our baby. We will be revealing that information this weekend, so stay tuned.

Week 21 - breeding a bluegrass fan

Baby Wilkenfeld has been very busy these last few weeks. As you can tell from the photo the baby is growing, and so is baby-mama. The baby did give us quite a scare last week. Britt began experiencing very painful and regular contractions about a week or week and a half ago. We had to get her checked out and though there was no clear reason, or culprit, the baby is doing fine and the doctors are not worried about pre-term labor. Britt was feeling well enough after a few days that we were able to go to Telluride for the annual bluegrass festival. We enjoyed the four day festival and the baby danced up a storm. The baby was kicking, punching and wiggling its little butt when the music was playing. This new Wilkenfeld may appreciate a hootenanny like his or her Saba and Safta. Stay tuned for a very important announcement next week.

Week 18

Nothing much to report around here as we are comfortably in the second trimester. Britt is feeling a little more like her old self these days, though she takes offense to the notion that you feel great in your second trimester. I think she would describe the way she feels as "eh". The cravings have also started. Britt has had strong cravings for fettuccine alfredo (yum), rice with cream of mushroom soup (yuch), and ground beef tacos hold the taco seasoning (???). As for me, I am regularly demonstrating my lack of training as a future parent. Case and point, we went stroller shopping this weekend to test drive a few beauties. The stroller store had an 8 pound dummy to place in strollers to get a feel for a stroller with a baby on board (Britt, a 10 1/2 pound baby, was gobsmacked at the size of the thing. Connie you are a superhero). At one point I decided to really explore one of the models and made an attempt to collapse the stroller. I was as shocked as the 6 people staring at me that I successfully folded up the stroller on the first try. Then I realized why everyone was staring at me silently laughing and fully judging. A little arm was dangling from the nicely folded up stroller. Thats right. I folded the baby up in the stroller...easily.

Absolutely Textbook...of Course

Well look who's pregnant - or at least showing the world she is. The baby bump is growing people (we're at 16 and a half weeks now) so pay close attention to the blog to track the changes to the equator around Britt's midsection. Britt and the baby are both following the same textbook path through this pregnancy. Britt is gaining weight like Goldilocks would - not too much and not too little, but just the right amount. The baby also seems to be maintaining a perfect heart rate (as you can hear if you copy and paste this link in your web browser http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35783384/Memo-1.m4a) so clearly this baby is not mine or at least rejecting many of my more troubling organizational genes.