Day 26: Nothing much to talk about

Days pregnant: 61 U.S., 47 Europe

Little to no news on the baby front to report. Today, we booked our Thanksgiving trip up to Portland, and that’s when we’ll officially spill the beans (spill the stuffing?) to the rest of the family. My wife will be finishing her 12th week at that point… and wrapping up her first trimester. Good timing. (Way to go sperm!)  And hopefully by that point she’ll be over this morning day sickness she’s been having for the past few weeks. And then my pregnant wife and her pregnant sister-in-law will preggo-wrestle. (Like at corporate retreats when people don Sumo suits.)

I’m on a conference call for work right now, as I type this. I picture myself a year from now trying to do the same conference call while staying home with Peanut. (By the way, that’s my new favorite nickname. I’m not ready to call it “the baby” which sounds weird anyway… but I like Peanut. My wife came up with that nickname after seeing the peanut-shape on the sonogram.)

Luckily, I think with my job I’ll be able to do both. The downside will be trying to schedule my sales visits on Tuesdays – Thursdays. I think it can be done… but I guess I’ll know in a year. Also, for a salesman, who’s always looking for a way to connect with his clients, there could be worse things than “accidentally” dropping the fact that I’m at home with my baby. Especially working in a women’s health field like I do… this baby is going to be the sales gift that keeps on giving. I’m going to milk this thing for all it’s worth!

Other random thought for the day: In my backyard, there was some little flower growing, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what it was. The leaves looked different than any of the other leaves in my backyard. I assumed there was some flower orgy going on, and I was getting some weird hybrid plant.

Well, when gardening this weekend, we dug it up to move it, and guess what was at the other end– an avacado pit! I completely forgot I planted that like over a year ago. There was the pit, whole and round, with a big 5″ stem coming out of it, with two big leaves at the end. How cool is that? Like a science experiment in my backyard. I vaguely remember planting it last year in that spot. (Closest to the kitchen door, which makes sense because I would have been too lazy to walk it to the OTHER  end of the backyard.)