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Project Baby Cheung

May 17, 2007: The birth story. Sort of.
Comments: 13 | Categories: Jackson , Project Baby Cheung

Sublime? Hmm. I should have spent more time thinking before I wrote that completely barf-worthy paragraph the other day. How can something involving hospital gowns and stitches and, uh, all that fluid be sublime? I read Moxie's post on what...

May 11, 2007: How much we love the internet
Comments: 17 | Categories: Blogalicious , Project Baby Cheung

I'm dying to tell you everything, but I am now the sole food source for a rather demanding six pound person. So, you know. Priorities. But hopefully you can tell from this picture that you guys are pretty high up...

May 10, 2007: Drum Roll Please...
Comments: 42 | Categories: Jackson , Project Baby Cheung

Introducing Jackson Gabriel Cheung. Born May 10th at 1:50 AM. 6 pounds 2 ounces and 19 inches long.

May 9, 2007: The calm before the storm
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Well there were a couple of obstacles to getting this post out. First there was the trip to the hospital. That went pretty well. Lots of green lights and no traffic. Not very many contractions on the way there either....

May 9, 2007: Written in between the times I want to die
Comments: 19 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Can I just say how lovely you people are? Phillip feels so special ("I already got three comments on my post!") and I really appreciate the emails. Even my mom is all, "Aren't those internet people so NICE?" Today has...

May 9, 2007: Still no baby
Comments: 9 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Well all of you get the proxy blogger this morning since Maggie is too busy huffing and puffing and in general not feeling too great. No baby yet and we're still at home. I called the hospital last night and...

May 8, 2007: I am not amused
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Phillip and I have been keeping track of [manageable thus far] contractions since about six. It's nearly ten. Tomorrow morning I am either going to be shaking my fist at the universe for robbing me of a whole night's sleep...

May 8, 2007: Ow
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***Update! 9:33 PST!*** So right after I posted this the contractions sort of melted into the background. Of course! It's like telling the internet your child is now sleeping through the night. We all know how that turns out. I'm...

May 7, 2007: Housefrau
Comments: 6 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Hey people. I will TELL you if I go into labor. I will be the girl who remembers to bring her laptop to labor and delivery but forgets her hospital bag. Like I won't be LIVEBLOGGING the entire event. Okay....

May 3, 2007: My public demands to know
Comments: 5 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Hee! Maybe I should set up some sort of automatic email list. "No baby today." "No baby today." And then, you know, in June: "FINALLY!" Would you believe I've had things to do? And that my internet freedom has been...

May 1, 2007: Today I am being helpful
Comments: 14 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

So all that "I might be having the baby TOMORROW" talk I was doing a few days ago? Ha ha. FALSE ALARM. Wasn't that fun? My doctor so wanted to entertain you AND me! But yesterday, after acknowledging that my...

April 29, 2007: The Eve Before My Last Week
Comments: 8 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I spent all of last week wondering if I would still be pregnant today, the eve before my last week of work, and I am. The baby rocked his ultrasound on Friday afternoon. Even the twitchy-eyed tech felt comfortable telling...

April 24, 2007: Attempting to be zen
Comments: 12 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I think this small baby thing is what I get for not having any morning sickness. (Although, when you think about it, that makes no sense at all, the baby should be huge. I have gained the equivalent of an...

April 23, 2007: I NEED that week off
Comments: 10 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

There was a bit of an Incident on Friday. Phillip picked me up at work for our regularly scheduled SMALL BABY ultrasound. We were late, but we ended up sitting in the waiting room for half an hour anyway. At...

April 18, 2007: Obviously I must go shopping
Comments: 5 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Shoot. Even my brother had an opinion on that one. Speaking of my brother, it's been a while since I posted gratuitous nephew photos. Here's Thing One: And here's Thing Two: Thing One is already proving himself to be a...

April 17, 2007: Panic! At the baby's room
Comments: 17 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I watched cable news last night until I realized I was watching the sixteenth loop of the exact same footage and Geraldo was showing me the website of a random Asian guy wearing a bunch of guns, knowing that this...

April 16, 2007: Luck and symmetry
Comments: 3 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I'm in a rotten mood today, Internet. ROTTEN. Pretty much everyone within a fifty-foot radius of my person is receiving the trademarked stinkeye and the "begin a conversation with me at your own risk" vibes. Luckily for you it would...

April 10, 2007: Mine
Comments: 11 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I just have a small baby. He measures two weeks behind and, according to the Magic Ultrasound Measurement Calculator Of Definiteness, is below the 10th percentile for size. How can it be, you are asking yourselves, that such un-small people...

April 9, 2007: Move over, Hiro
Comments: 3 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Last night I dreamed I had to save the world, and to do so, I had to find and purchase this diaper bag: Salvation arrives in flowery teflon-coated nylon. I kid you not, Internet. I was like Hiro from Heroes,...

April 6, 2007: Yesterday at my doctor's office
Comments: 9 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

After she has measured me with the little measuring tape, which, when I read about the measuring tape thing in pregnancy books, I assumed was only done when my my great grandmother was pregnant, because really? A measuring tape? MAGGIE'S...

April 2, 2007: The one thing I can't do without
Comments: 7 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I have written about ten posts since the last one. I wrote about how my neighbor's house got tagged last week and how the cops told him that 'CRIP BK' didn't mean 'CRIP BLOCK' like we naive yuppie townhouse owners...

March 21, 2007: A Bleg
Comments: 12 | Categories: Anxiety , Project Baby Cheung

Maybe I'm in a bad mood, I don't know, but I'm getting kind of bored with this website. No, I'm getting kind of bored of myself. At this point I thought I'd be all, "The end is nigh!" and writing...

March 20, 2007: No more room, kiddo
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

In the last day or two the boy has decided to take up residence inside my rib cage. I don't know why this is, as Lord knows there is enough room in my belly to shoot pool and practice Wii...

March 12, 2007: Glass slippers
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

Going to show that it always works to have desperately low expectations, we did not end up despising every minute of our all-day childbirth class on Saturday. Earlier that week Phillip confessed that he really wasn't looking forward to it,...

March 9, 2007: The roller coaster starts zooming down
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I am always trying to get Phillip to feel the baby. The baby's been a little more active recently, although it's more like flipping and somersaulting rather than kicking and jabbing, and I think Phillip should get in on the...

March 8, 2007: Being done
Comments: 2 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

This is the clip art I use for the Fancy Shmancy Work Event: Isn't it cute? I love it. Thank you, Microsoft Clip Art! (Seriously. Have you checked out the website? It's like sparkly desktop publishing crack for us wannabe...

March 6, 2007: Photoblog!
Comments: 13 | Categories: Awesome , House , Project Baby Cheung

Honestly. You people are so demanding. This post is brought to you by my 30-week doctor appointment, where I stepped on the scale backwards and sheepishly muttered, "uhh, does prenatal yoga count?" when my doctor asked, again, if I was...

March 5, 2007: It's a one-note website lately
Comments: 5 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

I am so tired I want to cry. Possibly the crying has also to do with the fact that I am trying to wrangle 400 uncooperative people into giving me the information I need to make their Saturday evening a...

February 27, 2007: Under the definition of "kvetch"- a link to this website
Comments: 7 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

A few days ago Jennifer (She Who Is Not Blogging During Lent, Which, If You Ask Me, Is Rather Lame-o) and I exchanged some emails detailing our myriad pregnancy complaints. Because, you know. There is really nothing else to think...

February 23, 2007: Rah rah girl power
Comments: 3 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

Yesterday I said the only movie I'd liked recently was The Departed, but I thought of another one: Casino Royale. What? Try finding anything to criticize about a movie screen-sized Daniel Craig. Yum. Anyway, I bring this up because I...

February 21, 2007: Um, no, that would be Good Friday
Comments: 4 | Categories: Faith , Project Baby Cheung

This is the time of year when I start to hate my job. Okay, I don't hate my job. Really. I hated it last year, but this year is entirely different. The Perfect Day Job is rolling along and I...

February 19, 2007: My Day Off
Comments: 2 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Today is President's Day, which means I was allowed to sleep in, and I would have, if Phillip's space age phone hadn't gone BLEERP! BLEERP! at six in the morning signaling Impending Doom. Actually, it was signaling that the air...

February 15, 2007: Holy Third Trimester, Batman!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Anxiety , Project Baby Cheung

Okay so not quite the third trimester. I don't officially hit the start of month seven until tomorrow. Fine by me! Which isn't to say panic hasn't taken over the Cheung Household because it has, oh, it has. Things that...

February 8, 2007: Where the gin is cold but the piano's hot
Comments: 3 | Categories: Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

I had my glucose test this morning. You shall all be relieved to know that I am still alive, although I'm pretty sure the reason I couldn't sleep between 2 and 4 am this morning is because I knew I...

February 6, 2007: You come here for the neuroses, right?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Today I planned to upload pictures from our little day trip one or two weekends ago, the fallback of the lazy blogger with nothing to say. They're pretty too- water AND mountains AND islands AND a very scary looking bridge....

January 25, 2007: Wherein I act like I am the only pregnant woman to feel bad about how she looks
Comments: 6 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

There is momentous news in the Mighty Maggie Space-Time Continuum: last night someone called me "tiny". TINY. In reference to ME. Granted she was talking about how I don't exactly look six months pregnant, but still. She said, "you're tiny!"...

January 18, 2007: He's just my type
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

This is my husband in his cave office. In this picture he is on the cell speakerphone helping one of our friends set up an internet repeater. At least, I think that is what it is called, and if you...

January 15, 2007: My morning, with a lot of tangents
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

So apparently the baby does not like oatmeal raisin cookies. Tragic, no? I love oatmeal raisin cookies. But I suddenly woke up at 3:30 am in Dire Horrible Pain, even though Phillip convinced me a foam eggcrate thing on the...

January 10, 2007: All I talk about is the baby, SORRY.
Comments: 14 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Let's get that introspective crap off the page and delve into more important things, shall we? Like the fact that I am becoming (HORRORS) a hippie! I realized this the other night when I called my mom in Colorado, where...

January 9, 2007: Snapshot of the krazy
Comments: 4 | Categories: Anxiety , Project Baby Cheung

Last week I was dealing with a bit of an anxiety relapse, so when the TiVo episode description for Scrubs said that Carla would be experiencing post-partum depression, I decided it wasn't something I needed to see. We finally got...

January 5, 2007: Someone ought to stash me in my third bathroom and shoot me
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , Project Baby Cheung

I am 22 weeks today. I know no one cares about this except me, but I have all of two entries in the "pregnancy journal" I thought I would keep (HA!) so I'm pestering all of you with this uninteresting...

January 3, 2007: Things I don't want to write about, but everyone else does, so here is my watered down in-denial version
Comments: 3 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

So. Here is a list of things I have up to this point sucessfully avoided thinking about and yet, I fear I will have to start thinking about them, quite a bit actually, in the coming months. Here they are,...

December 28, 2006: Naming the Boy
Comments: 7 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

We had a girl's name all picked out. Sort of. Let's say we found a girl's name we could agree on. We had absolutely no idea what we would name a boy, which meant, of course, that we would have...

December 27, 2006: It don't snow here, it stays pretty green
Comments: 3 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Project Baby Cheung

Did you survive? I did. I had to spend all of Saturday in my pajamas drinking tea and Robitussin to regain the voice I lost as soon as the guests left my Christmas party, but I was in decent form...

December 22, 2006: I can see for a long way
Comments: 4 | Categories: Music & TV , Ponder , Project Baby Cheung

I had a lot of time in college to sit around listening to music. Well, that's not entirely true. I didn't have tons of time, due to whatever job I was working and the demands of the Non-Denominational College Fellowship...

December 18, 2006: Puppy dog tails
Comments: 7 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

You guys, I am sick. Gross wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-hacking-up-a-lung sick. I have to say, though, I prefer it to the hacking-up-the-contents-of-my-stomach sick. I've been free of nausea for the last few days and I attribute it to the half a Unisom pill...

December 11, 2006: And purple and white and pink and orange and blue!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Yesterday while Phillip was out with some friends and I was home nursing a headache and nausea brought on by a half-hour ride on the freeway, I wrapped the little pile of presents that's been steadily growing over the last...

December 5, 2006: Fight the queasy!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Project Baby Cheung

I put forth my question to the Internet and the Internet hath decreed: second trimester "morning sickness" most certainly does exist, even when one has passed through the first trimester relatively unscathed. In fact, one woman told me that feeling...

December 4, 2006: Suddenly I have many things to do
Comments: 2 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

Okay you guys. This morning I bounded out of bed around 5:30, all stoked to go to work early and answer all my emails before anybody was there to bother me. I offered to make Phillip a South Beach friendly...

December 2, 2006: Ch ch ch changes
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It's 3:30 am here, which means I slept a whole half hour later today than I did yesterday, even though I went to bed around seven. I know the only people who go to bed at seven are misbehaving seven-year-olds,...

November 16, 2006: Thursday- watch the walls instead
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

So what shall we talk about today? How fraudulent one feels to enter a maternity clothing store when one is most definitely not yet showing? How I've filtered my anxiety triggers down to the lowest common denominator, only to find...

November 14, 2006: A bit of Tuesday random
Comments: 4 | Categories: Places , Project Baby Cheung , Rants

Guess who bought tickets to 'Wicked' this morning? Eleventh row, orchestra stalls, and those seats better be diamond-studded. Also, I better be sitting next to a movie star, preferably someone tall and English, like Colin Firth. That would do nicely....

November 10, 2006: All is well
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung

It's raining again. I swear, it is NEVER GOING TO STOP. People say, "Oh, you're from Seattle, you must be used to the rain!" But not rain like this. Not heavy, relentless, mind-numbing rain, the kind that makes you think...

November 9, 2006: This post brought to you by YouTube
Comments: 3 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

After some truly fabulous anxiety-free days, last night I hit myself with the trifecta of Late Night Church Meeting, Early Morning Board Meeting and Doctor Appointment At Which I Will Learn If The Baby Is Still In There. And while...

November 8, 2006: Could I have the pizza now, please?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

So! There was an election yesterday, I'm sure you heard about it, and I'm sure you did your civic duty. Yay you! I must say, I do love elections. I rarely feel strongly enough one way or the other to...

November 1, 2006: Nineteen days
Comments: 2 | Categories: Places , Project Baby Cheung

I bought the rest of my tickets this morning. It's final. I am going to Italy in nineteen days. Cappuccino for everyone! I'm pretty good at this trip logistics stuff, I think. My husband pays the bills and calls the...

October 31, 2006: A heartwarming Halloween story
Comments: 3 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

I'm probably jinxing myself by writing this, but yesterday was the least anxious day I've had in several weeks. Of course, this makes me incredibly suspicious. I spent most of the day waiting for it to return (it always does)...

October 30, 2006: Just in time for Halloween
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

One of the many pregnancy symptoms I am not having is cravings. Well, there may be an exception to this. I drink milk like the the power is out and everything in the fridge will go bad in a matter...

October 26, 2006: Tea-infused peanuts? Anyone?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family , Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

Just so you know, I'd rather be playing with my new copy of Dreamweaver, but I can't, because the fracking Dreamweaver installation wizard keeps asking me to insert Disk 1, even though there was only ONE disk in the brand...

October 25, 2006: The least that you can do for me is keep it to yourself
Comments: 2 | Categories: Music & TV , Project Baby Cheung

It is a bright sunny morning here in my beloved city (as sunny as you're going to get in late October, shut up) and I listened to Fountains of Wayne's song 'Maureen' about 400 times on my way in (I...

October 16, 2006: Why can't humans hibernate?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Anxiety , Project Baby Cheung

It's rainy and dark and mid-October here in mighty maggie land, and that means anxiety has dropped into my house uninvited. In fact, we are sitting opposite each other as I type, staring each other down, each of us knowing...

October 10, 2006: Nothing to look at here, just move along
Comments: 6 | Categories: Cranky , Project Baby Cheung

I had all sorts of profound thoughts last night, all of which I planned to post to the website, because my millions of readers stop here every day just to find out what profound thoughts I have on any available...

October 9, 2006: Over the mooncake
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Project Baby Cheung

I was all set to write a big thing about the Church Stuff we did this weekend, and maybe a bit about the short visit from the Chinese Relatives, one of whom was bought (yes, BOUGHT) by Phillip's grandfather back...