When Tim went to Calvin, the assistant cross-country coach told us that he made it his goal to match up distance runners and improve the gene pool. His contention was that distance runners are the cream of the crop, and the more little distance runners you create the better. Well, he did encourage Tim and Nikki, as two excellent athletes, to date, and the rest is history.
When the perinatal technologist did a sonogram on Little Finni yesterday, she was amazed to find this little one already stretching in-utero (at about 17 weeks gestation!) In the photo above, the baby's body is at the bottom of the picture. His or her leg is stretched straight up along the left side of the picture, and with his or her little hand, she or he has grasped his foot and seems to be pulling it in a familiar runner's stretch.
I guess some things are just genetic!
All things look good at this point in the pregnancy. Nikki is feeling somewhat better, and gaining a little weight. Thanks for your prayers, Gentle Reader, and please continue them for this little runner, due around the 25th of September.
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He has to work on his flexibility ... his knee is bent :-) (maybe an indicator of a male!)
I would like to inform everyone that there is as well in that gene pool a proclivity to the arts which may, we might find out, be the dominant trait. Time will tell.
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