Hiccups

Here is a list of what Hot Potato can do/is going through this week:

• It's neck is developed and the head is no longer resting on its chest or shoulders
• It is growing eyebrows, eyelashes, and hair on its head this week
• Its eye are closed but it can sense light 
• It can suck, swallow, and get the hiccups
• It is now a whopping 4 inches long

It still looks like an alien, but I love this particular alien.

Peachy

So, this week Hot Potato is the size of a peach, or you might say a potato.  Its vocal cords will finish developing, and it can also suck its thumb. Its intestines are fully developed and the skeletal system is well underway.

Unbelievable...

...Seriously.

Heartbeat

So, they tell me that I get to hear my baby's heartbeat today.  That is blowing my mind.  I am strangely nervous.  But more so, I'm excited.  What a beautiful, little, alien-parasite miracle!!!  I don't know how, but I already love my child.

not my actual baby
just some stranger baby from the internet
maybe it's you

Guess what?

Carrie's pregnant.

Due date: March 28th, 2011

Embryo/Fetus name: Hot Potato

Please post comments with your birth name suggestions.

Tomorrow - A Day to Remember

I turn 27 tomorrow.  I would like a new electric shaver and a uni-lazy.  A uni-lazy is basically a onesie for adults with a hood.  I really want one.  I've outgrown my last one.  I don't mean this as a joke meaning I haven't had one since I was a child.  I mean I had a red fleece onesie in college, but after going through the wash it shrunk.

These amazing, practical and fashionable adult onesies can be found at www.foreverlazy.com.

INVICTUS

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation

"Whatever I want, I get," Ellison once said. "That's the beauty of being worth $26 billion. I thoroughly recommend it.”