Month: February 2011

We had another doctor’s appointment this past Tuesday, and baby is growing fast. Olivia is changing noticeably from week to week, and the baby now weighs between 1 1/2 to 2 pounds! As part of standard testing, Olivia has to take a diabetes test after drinking a bottle of glucose solution (sugar water). Apparently women can get diabetes during pregnancy even if they’ve never had it before.

Olivia’s birthday is Wednesday, so we went out this weekend to Snoqualmie to play some penny slots and have an awesome steak dinner at the Woodman Lodge, a cute, historic restaurant in downtown Snoqualmie. We were stuffed on filet mignon and prime rib, rivalling even our dinner at El Gaucho. We plan to get out that way again to see the falls when the weather is nicer, but since it was below freezing on Saturday, we didn’t stay outside much.

Signed up for my paternity leave today. Get to spend a whole month with Olivia and baby for bonding, courtesy of work! I can take it any time in the first year, which left us with two real options. First would be to take it right away after baby is born, when Olivia could use help the most. Another option, which a friend of mine at work suggested, was to take the four weeks right at the end when the baby is almost a year old, and just take a long vacation/time off. We are going with the first option since I am stingy with vacation anyway and will have plenty to do what we want, and Olivia’s need will be greatest in the first month.

In other news, baby is kicking all the time now, so hard that you can see the little kicks on the outside of Olivia’s bump.