Things are looking up at casa Hernandez east. Reba is back, things are moving along with the new apartment, and we even have a jam session with a bass player. The big news, however, is that we now know a great deal more about the next addition to the family: in a little more than 4 months, we are going to be the parents of a baby girl! We went to the 2nd ultrasound today... what an incredible machine this thing is. The technician operating this device could not only see the baby and determine the sex, he measured things like the size of heart chambers, width of arteries, length of bones, formation of the palette, even the size of the tiny arteries connecting to her kidneys! He played us the heartbeat, snapped a 3D picture of her face, and even gave us a paper print of our unborn baby to take home as a souvenir. The kid doesn't even know that there's an outside world yet, but the outside world knows all about her, having looked in to checked out how well her kidneys are functioning, and assessed the quality of her lungs. I've seen what her little brain looks like on the inside, and know that a myriad of onscreen measurements indicate she is well within all the 2 standard deviations of healthy children. We looked into her little stomach long before the first drop of milk, and counted each finger and toe. What's left to check when this little girl is born? Hair color, I suppose.
I was thinking of asking if we could check out her bench press and SAT scores while we were in there, but that just seemed like we might be leaving nothing at all to mystery.
Seriously, I'm so very very happy that my little girl will likely be healthy and I can't wait to meet her.
Isa Hernandez, clay baby
