Is This Thing On?

I've been on a bit of a strike from blogging ever since posting on Blogger seemed to have gotten near next to impossible. I don't know what changed, but gradually posting pictures got tougher and tougher until it just wasn't worth the effort. It was taking forever and then the pictures would come up out of order, or not where I wanted them to go.

I stumbled on the ol' blog though and realized that it is starting to look like my journal....months and months between entries.

Pretty pathetic and so here I am, having just discovered a tweek to my settings that looks like will solve all my problems.... if there's a picture of a bunch of balloons just below, then I have in fact found the solution.

Oh my sakes. It worked! Well, blogging is a big, wonderful thing, isn't it now? Isn't it??


I guess this means I'm somehow contractually obligated to provide an update on the past 10 months.... hmmm...

Maybe we'll take this one event at a time, starting with the picture that is so nicely sitting right where I wanted it to be.

We found out on March 30th that we have a big, healthy boy on his way. I think I'm going to name our crew "Cheaper By the HALF Dozen", since we'll be filling the volleyball court with kids when this one comes.

Our ultrasound will forever be one of my favorites, though they are all always such a highlight of each pregnancy. With all the fussing that's so easy to do (especially from kids' points of view) about how life isn't fair and things are tough, I felt strongly this day that it's important to pay attention to the things that go right  with our days, and how sometimes, we get EXACTLY what we want. Down to the very last detail. It's been a process of learning this lesson, but I sure appreciate it.

We have a big, healthy boy on the way and we've seen his insides and his outsides from top to bottom and things look great. This profile picture was one of the last shots we got of him on the day of our ultrasound. The tech even let us watch him swallow and suck for a bit. How cool is THAT?! And, if I do say so myself, he's quite the cutie! He had his hands in front of his face for most of the exam ~ something his brother did when we peeked in on him ~ but was willing to let us see what we were getting (no bashfulness like his big sister had!).

I am so grateful.