Friday and good news...

I guess we're to the point where we can advertise this as we've told employers, instructors, etc. and had medical confirmation...we're expecting a baby in July! I had my first ultrasound on Wednesday so I'm past the three month mark and things look good. We're very excited as we've waited a long time for this so I could finish my course work and get to a place where if I had a baby I would actually get to see the baby. I finish my course work soon after the baby is born, take my comps and defend my dissertation proposal. Then, I'm ready to write the dissertation. We'll have the office finished downstairs so I have a "room of my own" (as is so necessary according to Virginia Woolf) and will be able to write while the baby naps. We're dreaming in ideals at this point, but either way even if the baby doesn't sleep as much as we'd like we're close enough to the end that it will all work out the way it should. Anyhow, I wrote my Master's thesis shorty after having Oliver, so this one will be my dissertation baby. It's too bad I can't go farther with my education because I'm not sure we'll be able to have any more kids without a really big paper to write shortly after their birth. I'm posting pictures of Oliver who is getting way too old to be a baby--he'll be six in March and one of the reasons we just couldn't put this off any longer; we didnt' want the age gap to be generational!