This morning Kaiser joined me for yet another non-stress test. All was well with the little dude, but we were there close to an hour instead of the usual 20 minutes because he was not the most cooperative kiddo and refused to move around, thus his heart rate did not change at all. The nurse came in to check the printouts of his monitoring and "buzzed" him with a harmless device to try to wake him up. He moved right away, but then quieted down as soon as she left. The next time she came to check me, she asked when the last time was that I had eaten. Oops. I was feeling crummy this morning and didn't think my tummy could handle any food, but apparently that's a no-no and could be contributing to Baby's lack of activity. She brought me some ginger ale, which I drank fairly quickly, and eventually his movements (and correspondingly, his heart rate) picked up.
Fortunately, we had the room to ourselves the entire time, and Kaiser was a trooper and kept himself very entertained while Mommy was strapped to the monitors. I brought along some new library books, which he looked at for a little while...
...but today he preferred to spend most of the time playing with his trains. 
After a while, he re-discovered the game of peek-a-boo with the curtain!
Not long before we were released, Kaiser climbed up into my lap to "drink" from my ginger ale cup (long since emptied) and spent several minutes tearing apart the styrofoam and trying to "share" it with his brother by putting it on my belly. (Though this was a sweet gesture, I soon showed him how to collect the pieces in the bottom of the cup instead, and he quickly caught on to that.)
Here is a little video of the kidlet playing during the test. Before I started filming, I had asked him a few times what we were listening to, and each time he clearly said, "Baby's heartbeep." So cute! You can tell I'm relentlessly trying to get him to repeat this response; if you listen carefully, you can kind of hear him say it a couple of times!
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