I spend a lot of time wondering what William is going to look like. I guess that's normal for any mom, it also is probably a sign that I have too much time on my hands and need to get a job. Unfortunately, my carpal tunnel decided the past couple days to come back with a vengeance. Honestly, I don't remember it ever being so bad before, even when I was doing hair, which has me worried about trying to even go back to doing hair. I know pregnancy can cause carpal tunnel, so it would make sense it would aggravate mine, but I figured I'd at least have started gaining some weight before it started up again. I don't really feel like I've been doing much more with my hands than I normally do so I have no idea where it came from, but I woke up screaming Sunday morning, it hurt so bad. We tried pain reliever (I think ibuprofen works better for me than acetaminophen but I can't take anything but acetaminophen so it just did the best it could), cold packs, wrist braces, hot baths. It's finally gotten better, though.

Still, when we had our 20 week ultrasound done we discovered baby boy was facing toward my spine with his back to the world, so we couldn't even get a profile pic for us.

Lovely view of his spine, though.

She did attempt to get us some shots of his face, but since it's the 2D and not 4D ultrasound it still leaves a lot to the imagination.

Right now I suspect he's going to come out looking more like Patrick features-wise than me, which I'm alright with since we're having a boy. I kept telling Patrick, back when I was kinda hoping for a girl, that the baby better look like me but with his haircolor (so basically, Merida from Pixar's Brave, except straight hair).  At least the nose looks like it's more Patrick's than mine, even size-wise (I had the tiniest nose as a baby).

I think we both hope he gets my eyes, although Patrick may not and I just assume he does because I'm vain and like my eyes (which he does too). Not that I dislike Patrick's eyes, I actually prefer the shape of them, but they're small. My eyes are normal sized but when I smile I have big cheeks that push them up into a squint (so basically, the real-life equivalent of anime eyes). Patrick even has a beautiful color, they're brown but it's almost an orange-brown, which is interesting... But I just want a redhead with gray-blue eyes! Part of me wants it because my father was a redhead with gray eyes, but I also just think blue or green (I wouldn't mind green--my family has blue and green eyes, I can't think of a brown-eyed person) are so nice with red hair! Some of Patrick's family have blue eyes, so I'm trying to keep in mind it's still totally possible we'll have a blue-eyed baby. Just like I'm a blonde but I think it's very likely we'll have a redhead because all of Patrick's immediate family is ginger and I know I carry the gene because of my father and grandfather being vibrant redheads like Patrick.

But I guess we'll just see when the time comes. After all, babies switch back and forth between parents for the first several years of their life, anyway.

I'm the one in the hat, Patrick is the squinty one.