Famous Last Words: "I'm 89% sure the baby is a girl."

It looks like Ben's "Bracey Code" isn't so great. Ben swears that the baby has been telling him it's a girl.

Well as doctor Yamishiro said "It's either a boy or a well endowed female." It was hard to tell for sure because the baby wasn't cooperating but Ben and Dr. Yami got a flash of what they believe to be "boy junk". The Doc says he's 80% sure that the baby is a boy but we'll have to wait a couple of weeks until our big ultrasound to be sure. After we got over the surprise we are super excited. In response to Ben's prior claim that he only shoots boys, my mom said "At least now we know it's Ben's."

Now, we just have to decide on a name. Of course it was the girl name that we were firm on.

Sorry about the videos

Ok, I know I seem to be on a video posting kick, and this will be the last one for a while. It is about paying attention to bikers and with spring coming and more people out on their bikes I think it is important

The perfect plan

Saturday as Tracey and I were driving back from a delicious breakfast at Ruth's Diner, we drove past a golf course and Tracey mentioned how she would really like to start Bracey into sports such as golf at a young age so that we could have a fun family activity that we can do together. It seems like things are so competitive these days that unless your kids are playing from the time they can walk then they are relegated to the benches. I thought that this was a great idea because it fits perfectly into my plan of becoming a stage dad.

For those 2 people out there who do not know what a stage mom/dad is, it is where the parent has no discernible talent (see I already fit the bill) so they attempt to live vicariously through their children. The added bonus comes if the child has a ton of talent that you get to retire and "manage" them (ie steal their money).

The only example I can think where a parent has done this is Tiger Woods and he is obviously a huge success. I am sure that there is a one in a million chance where this could scar the child for life and that kid could go crazy and end up marrying a back up dancer, having 2 kids, and wind up in rehab more times than I can count, but that is a purely hypothetical situation. There is no way that could happen in real life right?

A really cool game

It is not very often that I see something online and immediately have to blog about it. Right now there is the Games Developer Conference or GDC which is one of the big nerd get together about video games. As mentioned in this article, most people go there just to see the trailers for the big name games but this new game is just so cool that it is the talk of the conference. That is all the setup I will give before the video



Pretty cool. From the atricle you can see where to download a demo version.

MEAN Pregnant Lady

A couple of months ago Ben, pre-pregnancy, Ben sent me a hilarious link. It was written by ESPN's Sports Guys wife, the Sports Gal. She apologizes to all of the people she was mean to during her pregnancy. Here is the link:http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/071026 (It is towards the bottom in a blue box)

I thought "Wow! This chick is moody . . . but really funny." Well, I'm started to feel like I might be writing an apology blog in a few months. Let me tell you about a little outing Ben and I had.

We went to Costco the other day and the stupid girl who was bagging was telling her co-worker how St. Patricks Day is really on the 15th. Interesting. For those of you who don't know my birthday was Sunday, the 16th. The day before St. Patricks Day. Just like it has been the last 29 years. Well, naturally I corrected her because I didn't want her little friend to be confused. She goes on to argue with me about how NOW and for the rest of eternity it is on the 15th because that Catholic Church didn't want it to be during Holy Week. I have no problem with religions celebrating holidays on different days for religious purposes. I belong to a religion that moves Halloween if it is on Sunday. However, I don't claim that the Church changes it on the calendar for the whole world, which she did. I argued with her for a couple of minutes while Ben paid and then dragged his furious wife from the store. Ben was dying laughing. I know, not a big deal, after all she was a 19 yr old girl working at Costco but still, don't be ignorant! I even googled it when we got home. As I suspected, Rome approved for the Irish Bishops to celebrate on the 15th, they didn't change the date forever! Sweet vindication.

But wait there's more . . .

On the way home from I talked my husband into stopping at 7-Eleven for my new favorite prego treat, a Slurpee (he was scared I'd yell at him like the Costco girl got yelled at if he denied me) So I go get my Slurpee and the stupid machine spits out Peach Slurpee (gross) from the Cherry spigot. I was NOT happy. I stomp, muttering under my breath to the counter and unsuspecting worker. The worker who by the way ALWAYS turns off the card reader and says "It is broken." Funny . . . it's only broken when you work bubba!!! Maybe if you spent less time talking to your buddies, you could let me run my own debit card! Anyway, I digress. So I proceed to tell him how the Slurpee machine is mislabeled. He says "Yeah, I don't know who did that." My reply, "Maybe you should go fix the stupid sign because that really pissed me off!" Bewildered 7-Eleven guy offered to let me dump my slurpee and get new one full of sub-par flavors. GRRRR. Don't worry though, in a fit of rage I filled my cup with Coke slurpee full of caffeine. Maybe if I hadn't given up caffeine for the pregnancy we wouldn't be having these outbursts.

I think that Ben may not take me out in public again until the baby is born.