It's like Christmas eve for us right now! I'm so stinking excited!!!! We get to find out the gender of our baby in the morning, and we have our fingers crossed everything goes well and that the baby cooperates and isn't shy! I have been smiling all day like a dork for no reason. I don't care if it's a boy, I don't care if it's a girl, I see positives to having either one. Even if something happens where the baby isn't in the right position, I can't wait to see him or her on the big screen again, it's going to be exciting seeing how big our baby has gotten since our first 9 week ultrasound.
Unrelated to my excitement, I guess I'll share a few funny stories about people asking about my pregnancy that have happened in the last two days. I had my first stranger ask me if I was pregnant. I guess I must be showing that good then. What a brave and bold fellow. Not only did he ask me if I was expecting, but he asked me at the gym. Dear men, as a rule of thumb, don't ever ask a woman if she is expecting at the gym, what an awful place to pose such a question! He really was quite nice, an older man, probably had some teenagers, I had just come out of the bathroom and he read my shirt which had "Can't Live Without Dance" on it. I went straight from work and that was the shirt I happened to have worn to work. I told him I was a dance teacher, and that was why I was wearing it, he told me that T-shirts are like billboards, that you just have to read them. I continued to walk, and then out of no where he asks me if I was expecting. I said yes, and he said "Congratulations and enjoy your work out." It didn't end there though, after I got a drink from the drinking fountain he comes over to me as I make my way to the running track and asks me when I was due, I tell him, and then he goes " you don't plan on running 26 miles in this heat do you?" Lucky for him, I wasn't planning on running I was walking to the weight section, I wasn't in a preachy mood that day and I've been on cloud nine with this ultra sound coming up so I've been nicer than usual, I've been less of a diva, I've been a little less snappy, because goodness if he would have caught me in just a slightly different mood I probably would have ripped him a new one. I told him no, I was just walking. He then left me alone. Many would have been proud to see me in that circumstance, I was nice. If a pregnant woman wants to run 26 miles and can do it, I would high five her. Am I going to get a lecture every time I go to the gym? Do people not know that it's good for women to work out during pregnancy and if she did it before she was pregnant, for the most part she can do it while she is pregnant as well? I'm going to try really hard to be nice when things like this happen, and with the whole belly touching thing. I've decided to let people do it, even though I think it is the weirdest thing for a stranger to ask that, but I've heard it is way way way more weird when someone asks after the baby has been born, I figure I'll let it be cute now.
I had my second person almost ask if I was pregnant, but this one was way more sweet and it was just funny. One of my students drew the short straw, I hadn't officially told any of the students at the studio just random ones at random times, and today one of the teens in my class was looking at my belly and was stumbling all over her words " Mrs. Heatherly? Are you................ you know.............are you ummmm..... well......." I told her she was totally fine to ask the question, because I was. Then I got an uproar of your pregnant? That was a fun moment. I also had a colleague of mine say that I'm finally starting to show so and that it was exciting! People love babies! It's been a wonderful day, I'm so excited to see our baby tomorrow! I think tomorrow is going to be great as well!
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