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There is a lot to say so in the interest of attempted brevity I am going to go bullet style:

• Last week we had our 20 week anatomy scan.  Sprout was perfect, but our overall experience was terrible.  The u/s tech was really rude, would not tell us what we were seeing, even after L asked her, and would not let us hear the heartbeat for more than a second.  Also, she would not give us any pictures to take home.  The doctor came in and was with us for about 5 minutes, during which he barely spoke to us and then told us we needed to come back for more pictures.  L had to ask him if there was a problem with the baby, to which he said no, but it would have been nice if he had thought to tell us that FIRST.
• We were both sad after the appointment.  L cried in the lobby of the hospital.  It was far less than we were expecting.  My mama bear came out and I filed a formal complaint with the hospital.  The doctor called us back to talk about the complaint and L’s mama bear came out and she told him our experience was unacceptable.  He apologized many times and scheduled us to come back to have another u/s with a different tech.  Watch out world if you dare screw with Sprout– it will be a mama bear tag team!!
• L started feeling Sprout moving about a month ago, and it has been steadily getting stronger and more frequent.  I felt movement for the first time on Sunday and again on Monday.  It is amazing.
• Our u/s rematch was this morning and it was a lot better.  The tech was really nice and she gave us a proper “tour” of Sprout.  She also gave us about 1000 pictures, three of which are in the following post.  She said that Sprout is very active and looks perfect.
• We have been gathering things off of the awesome parenting classifieds in our neighborhood.  We bought a mose$ basket this week for our time in VT so that Sprout can take a nap downstairs during the day, instead of being upstairs in our room out of hearing distance.  It is adorable and our cats think it is for them.  There is always someone sleeping in it.  You will find a pic of the kitties in action below.
• We are heading to VT this weekend with a load of stuff.  We will be traveling with one folding crib, one regular crib (from Ike@), one free crib mattress (not organic- we have been debating how concerned to be about that), a suitcase of clothes, the mose$ basket (poor cats), and a baby play mat that one of L’s coworkers gave her.  Sheesh. 
• I have started telling more co-workers about Sprout.  I might make an announcement in the staff meeting next week.  I am a little nervous because I work with a lot of born-again Chxstians.  I am not sure how it will go and I fear some of their reactions and questions.  I have spoken with my boss about my concerns and she was supportive.  She is also pregnant and we decided to have a joint baby shower so neither of us are the center of attention.  The added benefit for me is that people have to celebrate both of us, or neither of us.  Ha.
• One of L’s best friends from college was just in town and stayed with us for 3 nights.  It was really fun to have her and she was an effortless, close to perfect house guest.  We hadn’t seen her for a couple of years and it still felt like we had just hung out last week.  So nice.
• We just attended a baby shower for one of L’s work friends.  Everyone there congratulated me on Sprout and told me how happy they are for L and I.  It was really nice.  They could not have been more supportive and inclusive.  In fact, one of L’s friends took me aside (along with the father whose baby shower it was and another of L’s work friends who recently knocked-up his girlfriend) to give us a parenting lesson on how she had to talk with her 15 year old son about where in the house it is appropriate to masturb*te.  It made me really happy that Sprout will not start off as a 15 year old.

I think that is it.  I knew it wouldn’t actually be brief, but aren’t we all glad I went with bullets at least?