Our Becka-Eric Genetic Chimera

Sunday, August 24, 2008

ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION

This blog has moved!

Blogger is OK, but it isn't really working out exactly how we want things to be. So, we have moved. I have put all of the posts from this blog onto our new website, and am in the process of moving your comments. (thanks for making comments) This new website has a baby blog, and is done in such a way that we should be able to update things more frequently. This new website will also act in place of our Flickr websites.

So, to anyone that reads our stuff, delete everything on your computer that points to this website, or to our Flickr sites, and replace it with the information for the new site. The address for our new site is:

http://www.themadridfamily.com

Now, go there and check it out. Thanks.

-Becka and Eric-

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Maybe working on something new

in anticipation of the baby I am trying to figure out some sort of multimedia solution that will allow us to share videos and pictures and stuff like that of the baby. I guess that between Blogger and Flickr we should have everything that we need but I am not sure if that is really how I want to do things. Any suggestions?

I guess this is something that my parents didn't have to worry about - how do I put baby on the internet?

I am not sure if I want to put everything everything into a public place, but I also don't want to make it difficult for people to view stuff. I'll keep thinking.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Distracted by Gestation

Sorry all its been so long since our last post, I've been a bit distracted by the human being feeding off me (not talking about Eric). Over the last few weeks, I've gotten big. Not that big, but the "baby bump" look more like a "baby hill". I know, I know...just wait a few months, before long my stomach will have its own zip code. As far as baby goes, though, he's just doing a lot of growing right now. It seems that if not all, a huge percent of vital development is complete. He's always has something going on (breathing liquid, creating neuropathways, urinating and still working on that first poo), but most of it is "cosmetic". He is putting on a lot of weight, going from about a pound and a half to at least two pounds in just one week (this coming week) and getting "taller" (he'll get nearly an inch longer/taller over the next week, too). Other milestones have also been met by this point (25 weeks): all five senses have been developed, his facial features have formed, and his hair has a color and texture. In mommy news, I'm doing fine. I eat a ton - or it seems like it anyway. Nearly once an hour I'm putting some type of food into my mouth: a bowl of cereal, a piece of fruit, a nutrition bar, some cheese or whatever. The doc says a pound a week is normal weight gain from here on out (of course, she means a pound max). Oh, and she said that the ultrasound was absolutely normal and I'm measuring normal and all that good stuff. My next appointment is at the end of August (28 weeks prego) for a gestational diabetes screen. I'll try to be more regular with my posts, so as to keep everybody in the loop.