it seems fitting that a sexist, chauvinist like me would have a daughter first. i just hope god doesn’t take the joke too far and also gives me a son at some point along the way. but i am excited to have a daughter and since we plan to have 2, i’ve heard from a few people that having the older daughter is helpful in taking care of the second child.

i had a funny conversation with this ~50 year old black guy that was in the waiting room with me, who’s dad was getting chest xrays or something. he was complaining about traffic this morning from south central and we were just chit chattin’ about the weather. he shook my right hand with his left hand and i wasn’t sure if he had a lame right arm or if thats just how it’s done. when i told him my wife was here getting the ultrasound he congratulated me and started talking about how he has 3 daughters in their late teens and early 20′s (this was before i had found out we were having a girl). unlike most that have the same boring advice about parenthood the guy was like “here’s my advice if you have a daughter…. do you own a gun?” :myeyebrowsraise: “whenever a guy comes over for your daughter, always answer the door with a gun in your hand. it keeps them inline” the funny thing is this guy wasn’t kidding.

it’s also funny how almost everyone has called that it would be a girl. the iphone app that taka was using to keep track of her ovulation said it would be a girl, some random lady that taka was talking to at work looked at her belly and said it was a girl, taka’s always thought it was a girl, and yeh my new sc homie was giving my advice for a girl. i guess it was meant to be.

so yep, this is week 18 for us, the due date got pushed back a day to may 21st, so we’re looking at just about 5 more months.

i know all i’ve talked/blogged/emailed about in this past week are my stupid teeth, but it really has been controlling my life. i’ve actually lost 5lbs in the last 7 days and while i’ll probably gain that all back immediately, it’s just made me lethargic. i haven’t been going to the gym for fear of ripping my stitches when i make my funny faces with heavy weight, and i think that’s why i haven’t been sleeping well and yeh, eating only mash potatoes and protein shakes fucking sucks.

so today i had my follow up and my oral surgeon gave me the all-clear to finally start eating regular foods again. the dissolveable stitches have dissolved and the wounds are nicely healing. there’s still these super deep holes and he gave me pressure syringes to clean out the food after every meal which is kinda gross, but if it means i can eat regular food again, i’m all for it. on my way home i stopped at del taco and got my fast food burrito of choice since 1996: the spicy chicken burrito. more of it probably went up into the holes than down my stomach, but damn it was good.

now that i don’t have to worry about dry sockets or other complications, i feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. i even went to the gym (and did shoulders) which was pretty weak, but felt great. i can also start taking care of taka instead of her taking care of me. on monday we went to the obstetrican and he gave her and the baby a clean bill of health. we didn’t do a sonogram but we got to listen to the baby’s heart… exciting stuff. in two weeks we get to find out the sex, and probably will be able to see if it’s got the extra fingers or not, eric’s taking bets by the way.

…and i found this sexy pic i took on my way home from the surgery:

yep, taka’s about 10 weeks along now and we’ve just now started telling our friends. we got the first sonogram a few days ago and saw the heart beating and the little arms and legs moving around. it was the first time in these 10 weeks that it really hit me that this is real. we’re of course very excited and i’m sure there’ll be lots of baby related posts for the next while. but yeh, kentomatic as a dad? insane.