Hello everyone, Dad here. We wanted to at least give ya’ll an update for week 8 (even if it is a week behind).

OH, and I am nowhere near the writer that Mom is, so bare with me on this, lol!

We have realized that there may be some folks that don’t understand, or know where the name “Lil Duck” came from. Well, here’s how all the “Ducks” came to be. When one of my best friends, Uncle Ronnie, had his first child, his aunt named me Uncle Donald Duck (Ronnie do you remember which Aunt that was). Chase shortened it to Uncle Duck. A lot of folks may have forgotten that, but Missy and I never did. Well, with me being Uncle Duck it just seemed to fit naming Missy, “Missy Duck”. It is very possible that Ronnie and Leslie added the Missy Duck, but we can’t seem to remember exactly when that came to be. So when all of the other nieces and nephews came along, it just seemed to stick with us. When Missy and I were trying to come up with a cute name for the lil one, it just seemed appropriate to go with Lil Duck. So there ya have it!

We also wanted to let everyone know what the results were from what the bloodsuckers took. (Gaga likes the term Vampires.) YEP, still pregnant! As a matter of fact the numbers for that particular test were increased as they should be, and are actually increasing at a rapid rate. Dr. Lipsitz was very pleased with that result. We also took another test to see what the odds were of the baby having Cystic Fibrosis. A little background on that, but I am sure everyone knows because we didn’t (remember, we are newbies). If both parents are carriers of the CF gene then the odds of the baby being a carrier of it are certain. Missy’s test came back negative for that particular test. GREAT NEWS there. Oh and she found out her blood type (35 yrs into her life), it’s A+ in case anyone wanted to know that, haha!

Last week at the Dr’s office, we were asked if we wanted to run the test to determine if the baby will have Down’s syndrome or not. After weighing the options and risks we have decided not to have that test. Doesn’t matter one way or the other if the baby does have Down’s, we are going to have this blessing no matter what!

Missy has been struggling more and more with the morning sickness. Cute story on that. Sunday May 24th , Missy woke up feeling a lil sluggish (reason for missing Church), but after we ate breakfast and kinda moved around a little bit, she got into her “MISSY MODE” and just started cleaning up around the house a lil. If any of you know how Missy likes to keep her house, you know that means there wasn’t much if anything at all to do. Well, we ate breakfast, lunch and snacks throughout the day. She was a little worried that evening, she told me “I didn’t have any morning sickness or fatigue today kinda scares me”. I just listened to her and let her get it off her chest. Well, Monday roles around and BOOM she has the sickness and exhaustion all over again X2 making up for Sunday.

Here is a lil update on what the lil one has going on at the moment. Fingers and toes are starting to shape up (something to wrap me around). We have eyelids covering eyes. Lungs are developing and the lil tadpole tail is just about gone. The lil one still hasn’t decided if they are a boy or a girl yet. At 8 weeks the baby is about the size of a kidney bean and is constantly moving and shifting. Momma still hasn’t felt any of that just yet. I have a feeling it will be a pretty emotional time when that does happen. Here is the 8 week picture that we have been getting from our favorite baby website http://www.babycenter.com/.

That’s all for week 8 but we will give you a week 9 update VERY SOON (right Momma).

Momma gives the Love Love Love, so I will just say talk to everyone soon!

DADDY!