While getting Gavin's toothbrush from the medicine cabinet tonight a baby gumbrush (the soft finger cover kind) fell out on to the counter. Gavin picked it up and after I explained what it was he turned to me, lifted my shirt and proceeded to brush the baby's teeth, via the portal to babydom, a.k.a. my belly button. As he did so, he directed it like we do him: "Open wide, Baby... open wide.... teeth together, Baby..."
He's really taking a shine to the baby these days (no pun intended with the cleaning of the baby this evening, haha!). He talks to it and gives it kisses, all of his own volition. Of course, there are plenty of times he hits the baby, kicks the baby, and squashes the baby, so all is not love and fluffy kittens betwixt the two.
The other night he was leaning over my belly and talking to it (via the portal, of course), saying, "Hey baby! Come out, Baby! Come out!" And earlier today, he took the baby from my belly and cradled it in his hands, and walked away with it. I asked him to tell the baby about McDonald's, where we were going for dinner, so he leaned over close to his hand and was whispering to it, "Hey Baby, you want McDonald's?"
Today is Half-Baked Day. I'm 20 weeks today, hard as that is to believe. With Gavin it took nigh on forever to get to this point, but this time, it seems we just got the positive test yesterday. Which scares me. Baby'll be here in about 5 days, given the rate time's flying by!
We bought a half-baked gift for the baby tonight, a cute little newborn gown. I tried to have Gavin pick one out but he was more interested in playing with a truck than choosing between a fat giraffe suit and fluffy bunny one.
The midwives say that anecdotal evidence from their practice supports a mama's "kick day," which is the day on which the mama feels a good solid kick, followed by good solid kicks on every day afterward. They say that quite often, the baby is born five months from that day. An interesting theory. If that is true, then this baby should be born somewhere around its EDD. I'm not quite sure of the exact kick date - I thought I'd remember to notice these things, but clearly pregnancy brain strikes again. It was in the vicinity of August 21, give or take a day.
Posted by allison at September 1, 2006 11:35 PM