The Wilhelmsen Botanical Blog

Our 2nd anniversary!  August 20, 2007

Hello everyone,

I know that many of you have enjoyed receiving our weekly e-mails and that you have read them on a regular basis. I also know that many people have simply glanced at them, while others ignore them all together. I love keeping everyone up to date on what is going on in our lives but I don’t want to fill up inboxes that are rarely checked or use up e-mail memory with something that doesn’t get read. This blog will be updated regularly, hopefully on at least a weekly basis and in lieu of the weekly news e-mail I will send e-mails informing everyone that the blog has been updated and to give them the opportunity to visit it if they want. Aiden will still have his own web page and most, if not all of the up to date baby information will be on there. Another thing you may start to notice is that I and/or Brandon may feel a need every now and then to rant and rave about the status of the world, politics, or other things that we have on our minds. These things will be the rantings and ravings spoken of in the fine print under our blog name.

As for any new news at this time, there isn’t a whole lot and for me to try and remember what in the tarnation happened two weeks ago to try and give you the highlights (especially with my pregnancy brain) is nothing but ridiculous. Although I must say that this week has been nice with Brandon having school off. I have seen him a bit more and he sure is nice company to have around. 🙂

Tonight we are going to a reception for a friend of Brandon’s who ironically I was acquainted with in high school. Sometimes it is amazing what a small world we live in, while other times the world seems very huge.

Tomorrow we will spend a portion of the day emptying out the nursery. We have a couple of things that will have to wait until we have a truck but for the most part everything else should be gone. I just really want to get the room painted while it is still warm enough to have the windows open to air it out. The days of warm temperatures are fast dissapearing.

Well, that is all for now. I do have a few things to rant about but those will have to wait until later. We hope that everyone is doing well and no, we do not really have things growing on the food in the back of our fridge. I throw things away long before that gets a chance to happen, even before the food will really be considered spoiled at times. Take care.

So, as some of you may have noticed my entry for 19 weeks and 4 days along has dissapeared. As computer savy as I can be at times I am completely baffled by this. The only thing that I can figure is that I went into the “journal entry” page to edit something and when I left it, I didn’t leave it properly and it didn’t continue to save the entry. Sad. Who knows what tasty morsels of goodness were written in that missing entry besides the meaning and correlation between Aiden and Brandon. Which I will re-add right now…

Aiden name is special because it came to me through inspiration in a moment when my mind couldn’t have been further from thinking up possible baby names. It is also very fitting because Brandon’s name means, “from the burning hill” and Aiden’s name means, “little fire.” So it is as if Brandon is the watchfire lit on the tower to be a warning and Aiden is the little fire passing the message on.

Next, for those of you who are wondering, I have not detected and obvious movement from Aiden yet. I promise that the day that I do I will add a journal entry saying so. Off and on, I have had strange feelings of what seems to me to be air moving around in my uterus but nothing that has happened consistently. There have also been a couple of times when I have put my hand on my belly and thought I had felt something, but it could have just been my imagination.

At my last prenatal visit the doctor talked to me about the ultrasound results. (They don’t even tell the obgyn what gender the baby is. Silly huh?) Anyway, he said that the heart and brain looked good, the spine has no gaps in it, and that all of the other things they check (I don’t even know everything they check) were normal. He also said that according to the information he got from the ultrasound, Aiden was only about a 1/2 week bigger then the average size and that he wasn’t going to change the due date. This seems funny to me because the ultrasound tech said that the size would put our due date at Feb. 10th which is 6-7 days earlier then my current due date of Feb. 16th. I guess that we will just have to see what happens as the due date draws closer.

Lastly, I will just say that I love Brandon and the cute way he talks to and rubs my belly. He also kisses it. I think this is his way of letting Aiden know that he loves him too and it is very endearing to me. I married a great guy, who will be an excellent daddy.