Well, I’m tempted to delete my last post where I planned on “blogging every day” about the baby.  I can’t believe that was – no shit – 6 months ago.  Oops.  Where has the time gone? (I really  hate that saying, such a space filler).  Anyhow, we’ll just pretend that post and my subsequent absence never happened.

On to bigger and better things — A BABY!! No, not Noah, who is also still very much a baby at 7-months old.  We are having a NEW BABY due October 19th, 2014, which is just shy of 13 months from Noah’s birthday on September 23, 2013.  I like to say 13 months so I don’t feel like a complete crazy person having two babies within a year (because I’m definitely not crazy…right?) But I have come to embrace the idea of the Irish twins, as it were.  Which brings me to the next question – “was this planned?”  It is the inevitable follow-up question, which is not as easy to answer as you might imagine.  I’m not sure what you mean by planned?  Let’s go with “No,” which really just makes things more awkward, if you think about it.

Either way, we are really getting excited about the big news, though I will certainly be more excited once I’m past the “chubby” stage (or worse, in my case — the “she just hasn’t lost her baby weight from the 7-month old” stage) to the “ooooh, she’s PREGNANT” stage.”  Yeah, I try to fake it now, but I’m pretty sure I’m not fooling anyone.

We don’t know if the new baby is a boy or a girl yet, but I am dying to find out.  We still have about 6 more weeks until our 20-week ultrasound, so I guess I’ll be patient instead of desperately go pay one of those 3-d places at 15 weeks…

As much as I hate ultrasound pictures, there is no cute “baby bump” to share, so here you go.  Gender guesses? skull theory? nub theory? (that would be funny only to anyone who has ever lurked on the Babycenter discussion boards… I know I’m not alone.) But seriously.  I’ll take some amateur gender guesses.  More importantly, do my “twins” look alike?

My big baby!

12-week Ultrasound