Here's a link to a Blog about going green with your Baby.

Baby O will for sure be green!

14 weeks down

This is just a quick post. Tomorrow is the 14 week mark, meaning 6 more weeks and then we'll have confirmation that Baby O is a boy! Susan had a doctor's appointment and everything looks great. Her blood work came back fine and there is no sign of down-syndrome. The heartbeat is racing away at 155 beats per minute and Susan is pretty much over her morning sickness. She's still a bit tired, butstill has enough energy to make me do some chores. Here's what Baby O apprently looks right now.

Leading the girls name suggestions...

Seeing as a majority of people are voting wrong and the girls votes are winning, I figured I might as well post a girls name that has been suggested. So when I first started the blog a few weeks ago, Andrea went to the random name generator link and came up with the name "Flossie." It's an English name and I believe has something to do with mouth hygiene, but none the less a week or so later Hurricane Flossie made headlines (thanks global warming!). Coincidence? I think not! Mother nature and carbon emissions have helped Andrea take the lead in naming Baby O if by the unlikely chance Baby O is a girl. As far as a boys name, Hurricane Dean is making its way through the Caribbean right now, but it doesn't have the same ring as Xiuhcoatl the fire serpent! Here is a picture of Xiuhcoatl I found online. Looks just like his father with the wings and whatnot!


One last note, apparently there is a country for baby names. I couldn't find it on Google Earth though.

Coolest name yet...

So Susan and I are getting a ton of suggestions for names. Thanks to everyone for your contributions, but I have to say that the bar has been set pretty high. Sid has come up with the name of all names. If Baby O is a boy, we might have to name him...Xiuhcoatl!!! I don't know quite how to pronounce it, but it's Aztec for fire-serpent; weapon of destruction. NOBODY would mess with someone named like that! Keep the name suggestions coming, but you'll have to work pretty hard to beat that one.

Our next appointment with the doctor is August 22nd. Stay tuned.

Things are starting to take shape...

So we had our first full ultrasound and blood work yesterday. It was crazy seeing Baby O in Susan's belly. It was moving around non-stop, constantly moving his arms and legs. Little guy has a ton of energy. We get the blood work back sometime next week. This will be the last picture until October or so. The head is on the left and in the top picture you can see his arm! He's going to be a pitcher!! We're starting to really delve into names now, and we are nowhere close to agreeing on one. My idea is that we sell raffle tickets at $10 a pop and the winner gets to name Baby O. I'm still trying to sell that one to Susan. More to come in a couple of days...

Baby O as a Simpsons Character - I would imgaine that this is a pretty accurate way to determine what Baby O will look like

Start of the new Blog

Well I tried to launch a website for Baby O at http://japalian.googlepages.com/, but apparently Google Page Creator does not have comment possibilities. So I'm starting this blog so people can comment on anything they would like (but remember to keep it appropriate, Baby O should be developing ears right about now, and they can burn!). So I'll give this a try, but I'll admit that I'm new to this whole Blog thing so bear with me until I get it figured out. So far though, this seems like it gives you way more control over your webpage. Google Page Creator was pretty user friendly, but pretty limited as to what you can do. Once again here is the Lima bean. We get another ultra sound tomorrow afternoon. Till then...