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Friday, Feb. 15, 2002 - 8:39 p.m. - A Wonderful Valentine's Day
This Valentine’s Day may not have been the most romantic Valentine’s Day I’ve ever experienced, but I think it was the best! It was a day full of mostly small and simple pleasures. Well, with a few nice surprises thrown in for good measure. It all started with a ringing doorbell in the morning and finding a delivery man with two bouquets of flowers for me! One was with 6 beautiful peachy-pink long stem roses and carnations and another with mixed flowers of all colors. Just beautiful. Then Michael told me that he had sent the same bouquet with the colorful flowers to my parents, as a thank you for all that they have done for us during our unemployment and with the IVF and all. How could I not love such a sweet, thoughtful man?? We spent the morning, just doing things around the house and enjoying the beautiful spring like weather we are experiencing right now. Michael did some work in the yard and I did some work in the house, but every so often we would come together and kiss and snuggle each other a little. Later in the afternoon I had to go in to my RE’s office for another blood test, so Michael and I decided to go together and then go to a movie that I’d been wanting to see that was playing nearby. We figured we just find someplace to have dinner afterwards if we felt like it. The night before, I’d had a bit of a scare with some light spotting in the evening. It wasn’t much and it didn’t last, but it still had me worried, because up until now I haven’t had a hint of spotting. I mentioned this to the nurse after I had my blood drawn and she asked me when my next ultrasound was scheduled. I told her that my next ultrasound was supposed to be next Tuesday, but she didn’t want me to worry over the weekend, so she said she’d slip me into the schedule and do a quick ultrasound right then and there. Of course, we had to wait a few minutes and I always get really nervous before an ultrasound. I know this might sound really crazy and neurotic, but ever since January 1st when we got the good news about my pregnancy, I’ve worn the same dress to every ultrasound appointment. It’s become my “lucky dress.” Well, sitting there waiting for the nurse to come in to do the ultrasound, I realized that I wasn’t wearing my “lucky dress!” I, instead, was wearing my “Valentine’s” dress – a red jumper with some hearts sewn on the yoke and pockets. Believe it or not, that gave me a few minutes of panic, and then I started thinking about how awful it would be to get bad news on Valentine’s Day. (I have this “thing” about hearts, and so Valentine’s Day is a special day for me.) I told Michael my fears and he laughed at me and told the nurse when she came in that I was worried because I didn’t have my “lucky dress” on. Fortunately, it looks like I now have two lucky dresses, because our little Peep was just fine. Heck, it was better than fine. Our little Peep was so active that we could hardly get a picture of him/her because of all the acrobatics he/she was doing! Our nurse started laughing and saying that we had no need to worry about our Peep that an active baby like that was doing just fine. We even were able to see it waving its arms and kicking its legs. We even could see the little HANDS!!!! It was wild! Each time we see our little one seems more amazing than the last, and yet each time seems like a miracle. Unfortunately the ultrasound picture we did get isn’t too clear, but I will try to post it here tomorrow. Our Peep is nearly 4 cm long now and looking more and more like a real baby! That ultrasound and seeing our Peep dancing around like he/she was, was the best Valentine’s Day gift either one of us could have had!! We were so happy when we walked out of our RE’s office. Oh, and I forgot to mention, that when we walked in to the office, we were both presented with a carnation from the staff!!! How wonderful is that?! They sure make us feel special there. So grinning madly we headed over to the theater and went to see Amelie, a very cute French film! Since we bought popcorn at the theater (and I indulged in my favorite Gummi Bears), by the time the movie was over, we weren’t particularly hungry, so we headed over to the mall instead since Michael needed to get some new jeans. While we were looking around for the Levis, we happened into the baby clothing section of the store. Michael at first tried to steer me out of it, but I reminded him that he had always said that when I was pregnant I could look. So we both took a quick peek around at all the cute clothes and baby items. Michael was even having fun and was amazed at how small everything was. (grin) We didn’t buy anything, but it was fun to look with the realization that we had our own little Peep growing inside me at that very moment! We were both still grinning about the ultrasound anyway. After we made our purchases we walked back to the car, hand in hand, and talked and dreamed. Since we still weren’t very hungry we just drove home holding hands the whole way. Once home, we realized that we never exchanged our Valentine’s Day cards. I loved the fact that my card was a blank card in which Michael had written his own thoughts and feelings himself. He doesn’t like to write much, so when I opened the card and saw a short novella I was quite pleased and his words brought tears to my eyes. He might not write often, but when he does he sure does a good job. We finished off the day watching the Olympics. I’d been looking forward to the Men’s Figure Skating Finals all day. Unfortunately, I was so tired, I didn’t manage to stay awake to watch more than the first few skaters!!! And we didn’t record it either!!!! I was SO disappointed!! I did have some pretty vivid dreams about men’s figure skating while I was crashed out on the couch, so my subconscious must have still been aware of what was happening on tv, but I sure wasn’t! I woke up just in time to see that Alexei Yagudin won the gold and then I was out again! Uggh! I need to learn to tape those events that I want to be sure to see from now on! So while our day was not filled with secret romantic getaways and big romantic dinners, it was one I will never remember. Most of all because we saw our Peep dancing and I felt so close to my husband. It was a wonderful, quiet and happy Valentine’s Day. 
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