Sympathy

Hello All,

Not much going on this week. We're just feeding Kristi as much as possible to help feed those two babies. We've come to notice that Kristi's belly has taken on a life of its own. Because of this, we no longer refer to it as Kristi's belly, or the pooch. It is now simply known as, "The Belly." Here are the latest pictures of Kristi and The Belly. She's now at 15 weeks.

That's Mojo looking at Kristi. He and Ozzy are both pretty upset right now. Up until this week, they would occasionally sleep with us. Well, we just went and purchased a "body pillow," (which is called that because it looks like a body in the bed when it's under the sheets) and there is no longer room for Kristi, me, The Belly, a body pillow and two poodles anymore. The choice was either me or them.  Thank goodness Kristi chose me. The puppies are now back in their bed full time.

So they say husbands sometimes have sympathy pains. I'm sorry to say that I have really not experienced this at all. I was hoping to maybe have some back pain, queasiness or even headaches so I could at least partly understand what Kristi was feeling. Unfortunately, I have not had any of these and pretty much feel great. It has turned out, however, that I have experienced one kind of sympathy for my wife. I'm proud to say that I have experienced sympathy weight gain and now even have my own version of The Belly.

Since I can't carry the babies for my wife, I've decided that I will just do the next best thing and make me bigger to carry around. Perhaps this will help me to understand what she's going through in some small way.

So we're on to week 16 (4 months) next Friday. Every week that goes by, I get more and more excited because it feels more and more like it's going to happen. Tonight, Kristi and I looked at all the baby stuff at Target. Wow. There's a lot of stuff there that I hadn't even thought of. It's going to be a steep learning curve. But I'm looking forward to this kind of learning. It's going to be fun.

Until next week, stay warm.

Dr. Daddy