The Sperske’s

I couldn’t sleep in this morning even though I didn’t have to go to work. So, I was up at 6:00 watching t.v., eating an apple and knitting a hat for our baby. It was nice. I have to say that I kinda like being up early and just being able to relax.

Usually when I’m up early I watch The Today Show. Mostly because I love New York and if I’m going to hear the same news on every channel I might as well get a glimpse of Rockefeller Center in the segments they throw in. Well, today I browsed the guide and decided to watch Mr. Rogers. That show is still delightful. Mr. Rogers was talking about how it’s okay to wonder about things and then he lists off these random things that he wonders, such as “I wonder what was here before this was a window.” And then he mellowly breaks into a song about wondering about this as he walks around his “house.” His voice isn’t that great, but I just love how gently he sings. It’s just good television that I definitely want our little girl to watch.

Do you know what I just realized today about Mr. Rogers? He does all of the puppet’s voices in the Land of Make Believe. If not all of them, he does a lot of them. How did I not catch that when I was a kid? The other thing I wonder is why he made the Lady Elaine puppet so ugly? Do you remember her? She’s the one with the long, red, shiny nose and the red cheeks. I can’t remember if her character was usually mean or if I just thought she was mean because she was ugly. But, I remember not liking her and I think it may have been purely because she was ugly.
I made a little pink hat for our baby girl today. It’s pretty cute. I actually followed a pattern this time, so I think it will fit. I went ahead and made the larger size since Jason has an oversized head. There are some spots where you can tell that it was made by hand, but that’s what makes it special. I have a feeling that it’s going to be very hard to wait another 4 1/2 months to meet our baby.

I also have a prayer request for everyone that reads this. I found out at our ultrasound that I have a low-lying placenta. Without going into gross anatomical details, this means that my placenta is in the wrong place. It will probably fix itself as my pregancy progresses, but if it doesn’t it they may put me on bed rest. I just thought that they might say that I can’t jump around or do the splits or something, but as I’ve been reading more I’ve found out that they can put you on bed rest, which means you don’t get to do anything. My placenta could be in a much worse spot and it’s still early, so I’m not too worried yet. However, bed rest would be horrible for me. Not only does it mean that I would have to quit working before I wanted to (meaning about half of our income is gone sooner than we expected), but I might go crazy. I mean, I’ve been pretty lazy (okay I did teach 6 dance classes) this week and I’m already feeling antsy. I think I would go out of my mind. Also, usually if you still have this when it’s time to have the baby they have to do a c-section and I don’t want to do that. So, if it’s not too weird, please pray for my placenta.

Okay, that’s all. In summation, Mr. Rogers is awesome, I made a hat and pray for my placenta. Goodnight and goodluck.

GIRL!  We’re very excited.  Although, I’m already worried about raising a girl.  I’m afraid she’ll want to dress like a tramp or kiss boys when she’s 12 and things like that.  And I have already had friends that told me they would make sure that she looks girly and cute since I’m not too good at that.

Anyway, Jason will be posting the sonogram pictures soon.  They are really cool.  When we saw her, she was totally flipping around and kicking.  It was awesome!  At first she was all folded up (taking after her mommy).  The technician couldn’t get a really good look at everything because she was all squished up so she had me roll over on my side.  Then we got a better look at her and she started kicking and being super cute.  She even yawned.  At one point it looked like she was trying to do the “bicycle” exercise or like she was trying to run away.

Well, you all have the rest of my life to hear from me how cute our daughter is, so I’ll stop now.  But come back to look at sonogram pictures.

Jason knows me so well. We turned on the t.v. and he was about to start flipping through the channels but there were two cute, little, dark skinned children singing in French on the screen. He just put the remote down and said, “I’ll wait”. Oh, how he loves me.

I saw “Step Up” today. It was good. I love dance movies. They warm my heart. This was a good movie and had some fun choreography in it. I like how the girl was wearing La Duca shoes. They’re really expensive dance shoes (but so worth the money! They’re amazing.) I guess it makes sense since her character is rich.

By the way, our baby is now “the size of a large onion”, as one of the pregnancy websites said. I like how they keep comparing our babies size to different fruits and vegetables. The last one was a lemon. And apparently my uterus is (or maybe was) the size of a cantalope. I guess they figure food was a good comparison for a baby since it’s hanging out down in the stomach region.

Okay, that’s all.  Jason loves me, “Step Up” was good and our baby is the size of an onion.  The End.

Genoa and I are enjoying a nice saturday at the Pleasanton Farmer’s Market. It is abosolutly beautiful today. We both work a lot and it is easy to forget that we live in a really nice place. As I type this though, a baby has started crying, a car alarm has started to go off, and two men are arguing in what sounds like French. I’m going to have to get used to the crying, but that car alarm and the French are too much!
I’m really looking forward to taking my son/daughter to this market some day. I took some pictures of some of the produce, hope you enjoy.

I just wanted to post a blog on here – because I can.  I want to make sure that Jason doesn’t start taking our website over so I knew I had to get a blog in soon.  I don’t really have anything to say but I’ll try and see what comes out.

We went to church today and then Wendy and the Frey family came over for lunch.  Izaak is really cute and so happy.  It was fun having a baby in our house.  I can’t wait until we have our own.   By the way, we get to find out if our baby is a boy or a girl next week.  That will be fun, except for the part where I have to drink lots of water and not pee for about an hour.  I might wet myself.

And how about something totally unrelated?  How cool is it that Sara Ramirez, who played The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot is on Grey’s Anatomy?  It’s very cool.  I love Broadway people.

So, I wrote a blog.  That’s one of mine to two of Jason’s.  It’s not a contest or anything.  I just want to make sure that all sides of the Sperske family are equally represented.  I have to make sure that there are some blogs that mention babies and Broadway, you know.

Last night Genoa and I went on a date and saw “The Night Listener“. Now I don’t want to ruin the film for anyone who likes movies where Robin Williams plays unsettling, stress inducing, middle aged characters, but both Genoa and I seemed to think the movie was too “unfinished”. It’s kind of a trend with his films. It worked for Awakenings, but the general consensus is we miss the old Robin Williams.

Ok, ok, ok I know this is beyond nerdy, but frankly with all that is happening in our life we started to get a little tired of realizing that so and so didn’t hear that we are having a baby, or that person didn’t know we got married. Etc etc. So what is my brilliant solution? Build a blog. This is a blog for all things related to our lives. I’m certain they will only be of passing interest to merely a few people, but hey if it helps people who love us and who we love stay in touch with us then it has fulfilled it’s purpose. And besides, it means we have these cool new e-mails

Jason@Sperske.com

Genoa@Sperske.com

Now don’t you wish you could be a Sperske too?