serendipity, candid camera

Well, judging from the lack of response on my last post, I guess no one is really on the edge of his/her seat waiting to hear whether Isaac has conjunctivitis, aka pink-eye. But I'll tell you the answer anyway: he does. ( the boring details )

So, I had to take the day off work yesterday, because he wasn't allowed back to daycare. We ended up taking the bus to my mom's workplace and having lunch with her, then took the bus back to her place, had a pretty good nap, and hung around until mom got home, had dinner with her and went home. It could have been worse.

In much cheerier news, today I got an unexpected ultrasound peek at Cosmo! That was exciting. I went to meet with the people who are running that research study I mentioned here before (they are studying pregnant women who previously had a preemie). I talked to the somewhat clueless research assistant chick, who went over all the boring informed-consent stuff, and then the doctor came in and started going over my medical history. She balked at the part of the survey where I had marked "don't know" on the question "are you currently pregnant with multiples?" The study requires that you have a singleton pregnancy. I explained that I just marked it that way in the interest of complete honesty since I haven't had any ultrasound or anything yet so I can't completely rule out twins, although I said I find it quite unlikely. "Oh sure," she said, "famous last words." I liked her. ;)

Anyway, she hemmed and hawed over what to do about that, and then she was like, "hey, let's just do a quick scan right now." I of course jumped up and kissed her expressed my willingness, so we popped into the next room and she hooked up the ultrasound machine. And there was little Cosmo!!

(I never had this kind of ultrasound with Isaac, you know. I had one at six weeks because of some spotting, but he was just a tiny dot at that point and you really had to just take the tech's word for it. I had another one as part of a stress test after I went into preterm labor, but everything was so worried and stressed at that point, I didn't exactly get a chance to do the whole "look, that's my baby!!" thing.)

So it was super-cool to see little Cosmo in there, wiggling around like crazy, looking like an actual human being with a head and little arms and legs and stuff. OMG! It was great. And the doctor kept saying "aww, it's so cute." :) She gave me some pictures, and she measured Cosmo's "crown-to-rump length" which was 4.3 centimeters (that's about 1.75 inches) and which is exactly right for his/her age. I shall try to scan in the pictures, but I don't know how well they'll scan, given the typical blurriness of ultrasound pictures anyway. You really have to use your imagination. But I'll give it a try.

Anyway, that's the exciting, thrilling, and delightful news around here. ;) Whee!

shakespeare meme

If you see this on your flist, quote some Shakespeare.

In high school I had to memorize a sonnet. I chose #48.

How careful was I, when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy of comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not locked up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art:
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at leisure thou may'st come and part.
 But even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,
 For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.

I love that last bit, because I always read it as, "Oh, but I'm going to cheat on you, by the way." ;)

woohoo, finally an opportunity to use my Shakespeare icon!