Happy Birthday Dad

Today we celebrated Dad's birthday!  He was at work until later in the day, but it gave us time to make the final preparations at home.  We have to wait until the last minute because Dad tries to figure out what surprises we are planning including presents.  We make him wait as he should for the actual celebration.

Singing Bubita.

Maybe she'll be an opera singer like her aunt Julie.

Part of his present was to have been a visit to Dr. T to see Bubita for the 29/30 week check up.  Unfortunately, this appointment also coincided with a busy, busy week at work.  And aunt Pau couldn't attend either because it was not her day off.  But Grandma Ellen flew in for the sonogram.  She was quite excited about seeing her first granddaughter on the screen.

The sonogram was wonderful.  Bubita cooperated and showed off.  She swallowed, yawned, and even hiccuped while we watched. We also were able to see her little hand waving at us as well as her "chunky" little legs.  Dad would have loved it!  But thankfully he did not have miss the experience entirely.  The wonderful tech recorded another DVD just for Dad!

Notice Bubita's fat button nose?

The arrow points to what Dad calls her "Hobbit" feet.

They are HUGE!

Other than getting cuter, Bubita continues to grow.  She's currently measuring/weighing 3.5 weeks ahead.  (And yes, we are VERY sure that our dates are correct.)  The girl is a chunk at approximately 3 pounds 12 ounces at 29 weeks 4 days!  That's almost on par with Bubeaner's birth weight of 3 pounds 13 ounces at 30 weeks 2 days.  Momma just grows big babies. 

The placenta is still looking fine.  There were a few placental lakes, but small enough in size and quantity to not be too concerning.  The blood flow to and from the placenta was also normal.  Overall, Bubita looks good. 

Bubeaner and Dad

After the appointment we ran several errands including picking up Dad's absolute favorite cake: Basking Robbins chocolate and mint chocolate chip ice cream cake.  Meme'Licia helped decorate the house.  And Bubeaner was allowed to stay up a little past his bedtime to celebrate with Dad.

Bubeaner is not too sure about being so close

to the now lit candles.

Dad loved his presents, his food, his cake and, above all, being able to watch the NFL draft with his boy on his birthday undisturbed.

Happy Birthday Dad! 

May you have many, many more.

It was a good day.  Momma did have some more mild cramps towards the end of the day.  They were probably due from exhaustion from spending most of the day out.  But they went away pretty fast.  There was no need to visit the hospital again.  That would NOT have been a good birthday present.