Zach Dotsey

Amanda Dotsey, pregnant sixteen weeks and getting a belly

This week our little Pistachio is much bigger than a Pistachio.  He or she is four to five inches and between three and five ounces.  Big kid, huh?  It’s getting stronger and looking more and more like a baby.  Even though the eyelids are still sealed the [...]

I beat BioShock last night.  My brother-in-law, Michael Mercer, let me borrow it a little while ago.  I played it a lot for a while then I slacked off.  I was almost done anyway- it didn’t take much playing tonight.
I exiled myself to the couch last night.  I felt better by and large, but the [...]

Bruce, the sweet dog who comforted me during last night’s cough-induced exile to the couch

I’m still sick.  My throat actually feels the worst it has so far, but I think it’s because everything’s draining, which is making me cough, which is making my throat worse.  I’m no doctor, so hopefully I’m right about all that.  [...]

If you keep up with things on this website you might remember how I mentioned yesterday that Amanda and I got very little sleep the night before.  Here’s the reason why.  Amanda had discovered some spotting in the afternoon.  Nothing heavy, and not too alarming in and of itself, but later that night Amanda said [...]

This week, little Pistachio should be about four and a half inches and weigh two or three ounces.  The eyes and eyes have moved to their proper places and there’s a lot of movement.  The eyes are moving, the baby is stretching and flexing and can move its fingers.  It may even be sucking its [...]

I’m sick today.  I started feeling it last night, but it’s definitely here now.  It’s pretty much just a sore throat, but my throat seems to dry up and I start coughing if I speak more than a few sentences at a time.  What really sucks about this is that I had several good sales [...]

So apparently week fourteen is the official start of the second trimester.  During the fourteenth week the babies start growing at different rates, so from here on out we’ll be talking generalities.
This week, little Pistachio is about the size of a fist and is starting to straighten out some and beginning to look more like [...]