The Big Brother Era

Yep, we're ready to annouce it, though we're not 100% out of the woods on tests, that Kieran will be a big brother in July.

We told Kieran on New Year's Eve over dinner. He seems to understand the concept (there's a baby in mommy's belly) but it's hard as I'm not really showing yet. Too smart for his own good, he's already asked if the reason I've not been feeling well is because of the baby in my belly. Everything I read told me to tell him "no" so he doesn't blame the baby for making mommy sick, so a little white lie for now.

My family is very excited though I have likely ruined my dad's birthday plans (he wanted the whole family to go to Disney in August - no way I'm taking a one-month-old to wake everyone up all night). I think he's going to forgive me.

My brother, dad and mom have all said they think "boy". Ken & I just aren't sure. We had a sonogram (not the anatomy one, that's not until February) recently and we were telling the doctor that everyone was guessing boy. She asked if she could have a guess too - we said "Sure, why not?" She guessed girl. When we asked her if that was based on any experience or just a gut feel she told us we'd have to wait.

Grrr. I hate waiting.