IT'S A GIRL ! !

Due to some rescheduling, Jessica had her ultrasound done today instead of next week. It's official, we're having a girl! Emmy Alexis weighs only 12 ounces right now and is about the size of your hand. Think of a can of soda to compare for size. Apparently Miz Emmy is pretty small for her "age" and they are still saying May 29th for her delivery date. Jessica has been worried ever since the "Pulled Muscles Episode" that the baby hasn't been very active. Apparently this is due to Emmy being so small and also Jessica has a large fluid cyst on one of her ovaries that is painful to Jessica and affecting the baby. I've never heard of the mother's pain affecting the baby, but I suppose it's possible.

It won't be long before she's feeling all the movement she wants, and maybe even a little too much! How well I remember the feeling of baby feet in my ribs. Sometimes it felt like Jessica had on combat boots when she was kicking.

Jessica spent the entire 10 months (Yes, I said 10 months! I went a full month over carrying her) standing on her head. She kept her feet in my ribs and her head in my bladder the whole time. She was never afraid of heights and loved to swing upside down or be spun around. To this day she loves thrill rides and has bungee jumped several times. Yes, it about made this Mama's heart stop when she told me, but she loved it. She also wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and skydive but I'm not sure my heart can take it. Lord, help me...

So now we know we are having an Emmy and not an Ivan. And we know it's gonna be pink stuff and not blue. Now to start my crocheting and sewing.Apparently, as usual, I didn't make myself understood about my template and the New Blogger. I made the switch from Old Blogger over to Beta Blogger several months back. Now it's just New Blogger, I assume.

Anyway, to access all the features for templates on the New Blogger you have to use one of their new templates for the New Blogger. My custom template switched over fine, but I can't use all the easy-edit features for my template because I still have a template coded for the Old Blogger. As I understand it, the coding on the New Blogger is different from the Old Blogger, and there's the rub. I do have a couple of other blogs that I did switch to the New Blogger and I did switch to the New Blogger templates on those just to see what all the hubbub was about.

If you're curious you can look at my Recipe Blog and my 1ooThings About Me Blog to check out the New Blogger templates there. They may look like Old Blogger templates at first glance, but look closely. They have what are called "widgets" that are easily changed, moved, renamed, deleted, etc. Very easy, and no Html is needed. On most of the templates it's very easy to change your title, header, tagline, sidebar items, blogroll, buttons, links, etc.

I do like those features, but for the present I like my custom template more than I like the easy new features and the templates available on the New Blogger. If and when somebody comes out with some pretty new templates for the New Blogger I'll probably switch my custom template.

One thing I haven't heard is if anybody is making templates for the New Blogger. I've looked at several design sites and I haven't seen a thing referring to the New Blogger. I have no idea if New Blogger coding is easier to work with than the Old Blogger or about the same. As a matter of fact, I haven't even looked at the templates for any of my New Blogger blogs so I have no idea how they're set up.

I'll be back Saturday sometime to do my usual Sunday Dinner post, Lord willing.

Happy weekend, everybody!