Drew is Two!!!

....as he's been telling everyone, all day, from the guy at the bakery where we picked up his cake, to the woman dispensing the tokens at Chuck E. Cheese :)

I cannot believe my (not so) little boy is 2! It doesn't seem possible. It feels like I just gave birth to him last month. But we had a great day today - which was even more special because, believe it or not, this was the first time Andrew had Daddy here for his birthday! Steve was overseas both the actual day Andrew was born AND the day of his first birthday.

We didn't have a huge party this time (I know, out of character for me!) but just spent the afternoon at Chuck E. Cheese with my friend and her 2-year-old twin sons. Then we went to Red Robin for dinner and came back home to have Andrew's cake - decorated with a baseball and baseball field (his obsession!) of course.

Photos to come - I promise! Yes, I know, I still have to post photos from Maddy's birthday last month. But now I have to get to sleep because we have a busy day again tomorrow. In the morning, Andrew and Teresa both have their annual well-child visits to the doctor (Teresa won't actually be 6 for a little more than a month still, but I'm combining the physicals tomorrow because I need to get Teresa's medical forms back to her new school ASAP.)

And then in the afternoon - the appointment I've been eagerly awaiting - my ultrasound! I am almost 19 weeks, and I'm having a sonogram as well as a high-risk consult (I'm not really high-risk, but because of my thyroid condition I'm going to have a few periodic consults with a maternal-fetal medicine doc just to make sure it's not causing any problems). So of course, I am mainly anxious to make sure everything is OK and the baby is healthy - but I admit, I am also sooooo anxious to know whether the baby is a boy or a girl!

I had been feeling boy - but not for any reason other than a very vivid dream I had in which I gave birth to a boy on Nov. 12 (which in itself would be unlikely since I'm usually late, not 2 weeks early!) My pregnancy this time has been different from ALL the previous ones, so that's no help in analyzing for a guess! My mother thinks it's a boy. My grandmother and sister-in-law Sue have both said girl from the beginning. Madeleine wants another sister; Teresa wants another brother but just today told me she is starting to think it's a girl.

So by this time tomorrow, we should know who was right! :)