He kicks
My belly jumps
A bubble within
My baby bump

First at night
Now too in day
He swims around
He loves to play

A father’s touch
He too can feel
Something abstract
Becoming real

Inspired by a dear friend’s site, my husband and I have decided to start a baby blog. We have transferred the posts from Christopher’s blog concerning Baby Hall to this site. We hope you enjoy as we add more stories of my pregnancy and our growing family.

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One small foot for Baby Hall, one large addition for the Hall family.

My wife and I had our 20 week ultrasound to determine that everything was growing correctly and in its proper place. Thankfully, Baby is growing fine and still due early to mid September.

Here is Baby in all 11 ounces of his glory; yes in the next 20 weeks he’ll be busy packing on the weight, 6 to 8 pounds worth.

And another shot of Baby, this time he’s showing his tummy.

And finally, I can discontinue referring to Baby Hall as (s)he as Baby is hemizygous for the heterochromosome.

And last but certainly not least, we are registered at Babies-R-Us and Target. You can also search for our names and find the information.

On Saturday 29 March, Heather and I went to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. (For those of you outside of Tucson, this is a zoo displaying flora and fauna from the Sonoran Desert.)

This is a shot of Heather and Baby with the Sonoran Desert as a backdrop.
As Baby is in utero, this does not afford good views of the animals. However, according to some of our pregnancy books, Baby can now hear voices from the outside world, so (s)he had a narrated tour complete with descriptions of the animals (and plants).

Heather’s favourite animals to watch were the river otters. Two river otters whimsically played in the water. One of the otters swam upside down and every time he passed a log, he kicked off it with his front foot and back foot in succession.

While I’m not quite sure I interpreted the signals correctly, I believe Baby’s favourite animals were the javalinas (or affectionately ‘javies’). We also suspected (s)he liked the cute prairie dogs.

One of the paths off the track had an agave garden I enjoyed, I liked the many forms of agave and enjoyed the other flowers and the hummingbirds feeding from them. See if you can find the hummingbird in this image.
Here he is:

And now, just in time for St Valentine’s Day come the first images of Baby Hall. She was moving quite a bit during the ultrasound. They estimate Baby is 10 weeks old and her due date is now 10 Sept. We should find out her gender at 20 weeks.

Ah, so cute, so small, and so embryonic. I’m sure Mother Hall will soon have her own blog devoted to Baby.