Nellie will have a little sister – It’s a girl!

Date: 2010.01.28 | Category: Fungbaby 2 | Tags:

It’s a girl! That’s right, Fungbaby #2 is going to be Nellie’s little sister!

We found out the good news at our 16 week doctor visit this week and are happy to report that everything is going well with the pregnancy – both baby and Erin are healthy and everything is looking good. The baby’s heart rate was 152 beats per minute, they verified that all of her parts and pieces are there – 2 arms, 2 legs, stomach, kidneys, etc. From a development standpoint, she now weighs 2 1/2 ounces and she is  able to kick her legs, which are measurably longer than the arms that she often swings about as she floats in a sea – actually, 7 1/2 ounces – of amniotic fluid.

We are so excited that Nellie is going to have a sister and that they will be there to support each other through this thing we call life. Not that a brother would have been a bad thing…not at all – but there does seem to be something different about the relationship that sisters share as compared to that of brother and sister. Not to mention that having another girl helps ease the financial blood letting in the Fung household because we have all of the clothes and necessary sundries for an additional little lady….

“Nesting” activities are about to begin in earnest – we are going to be converting our guest bedroom into Nellie’s new room in short order and that means that I (David) lose the closet in that room and am forced to purge – an activity at which I am sorely lacking skill….I mean really, I am borderline hoarder So the activity is not just about moving the guest bedroom furniture up to our storage facility in New Jersey (Grandmother’s house) and painting – the purge also needs to happen which impacts the closet in the master bedroom since I will have to go and re-colonize the closet space that Erin has slowly but surely conquered…I will not give up (reference POTUS from 1/27/2010 State of the Union).

Speaking of the master bedroom….let’s go ahead and paint that one as well. It is time and we have grown tired of the green color – time to lighten things up and get back to a neutral canvas – I think that the new color is called “Adobe White” – a very light cream color.

Little will really be done with the nursery – probably some new curtains and a decorative refresh on the knick knacks and such, but no room painting refresh…thank heavens

Funds saved from taking a modest approach to the nesting activities will be diverted instantaneously into one of now two college and wedding savings accounts – HA!

We will be going back for another ultrasound in a month and will keep you posted on how things are going at that time. In the interim….we are off and running and just trying to keep up…