Ernie the Boney Boy Fetus

I'm not usually a big braggart but I just got back from another ultrasound and... my son has bones!

Look at this boney little man.

Spine!

Feets!

I especially liked the bones in his legs because they looked like cartoon bones that weren't connected to anything.

I'm very proud of Ernie the Fetus for getting so big.

I even managed to badger some excruciatingly short videos from the ultrasound lady. Why wouldn't you offer these in the first place? Are there people who don't want these?

This one is cute because he has his little hand on the side of his head like babies do, and I also think his little mouth is moving. Could have the hiccups or just practicing swallowing.

We returned to Mox Boarding House Bellevue with Sumit and Shubra for board gaming fun times.

I had what may have been my first hot butter rum.

Gender and Kraken Lack of Talent Revealed

Ultrasounds are fun because I get to see what's going on in there with the alleged Troll.

Very annoyingly the ultrasounds show as video but all they give you to take home are still pictures. I was going to just hold my phone up to the screen to take video but got scolded. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

I was so mad about that I started researching private ultrasound places that aren't scared of the exciting advances that have taken place in audio visual formats in the last 40 years.

We also picked up the baby's gender from a different office that does blood work. We didn't want to know the Troll's gender until we got genetic testing and some other testing done. I wanted to make sure it was a human baby and not like a rabbit or alligator or whatever. I'm not a doctor but I assume these things happen.

When we opened the envelope it was revealed that we weren't having a Troll at all but a baby boy named Ernie! What a relief. Ernesto is my great grandfather who left Italy for America, and I've been learning a lot about his life over the past few years while preparing my application for Italian citizenship. If everything goes according to plan Baby Ernie will be getting Italian citizenship too, so I thought naming them the same thing would be a fun source of future confusion.

Lydia suspiciously picked a hospital that is walking distance to her favorite ice cream place. What a coincidence. Salt & Straw had some very weird flavors on deck to celebrate Halloween.

Don Bugito’s Creepy Crawly Critters featured "chocolate-covered crickets and toffee-brittle mealworms."

Ernie has a lot of forest fires to look forward to.

At night we headed to Climate Pledge Arena where even some of the hardest working employees end up getting fired. Essentially my rule at this point is to go to every game in Seattle that features a St. Louis team.

The Seattle Kraken's opening show thing has evolved quite a bit since last season. There's even a neon tentacle thing that lowers from the ceiling.

 Recently retired Sue Bird was in attendance with her fiance Megan Rapinoe.

Ultimately St. Louis prevailed and sent the Seattle bums packing. Sad.

There's one less troll in my life now, but I'll always have Buoy.

My First Trip to the Gynecologist

We recently saw an ad for a local musical called Lydia and the Troll, and so naturally we are referring to our little pet as the Troll until he or she passes their genetic tests and makes it out of the miscarriage danger zone.

The ultrasound was cool. I got to see its little heart beat and it wiggle around. I wish they would have given me the videos. These still photos look like someone chopped an alien in half.

Lydia's been having a lot of weird aches and pains. She's been eating a lot of cheese and every morning almonds. Her strategy for not getting morning sickness is to constantly be snacking. Sometimes I help her eat the snacks.