By Popular Demand

Which is to say... demanded by one person. However, since that one person is pretty cool, that's all that matters.

Anyway, I'm back, and unlike last time I may actually be able to sustain the return blogging experience, now that Amy and I are back in our own place and using our own internet, instead of living with three crabasses and using a computer and internet that should have died out with the dinosaurs. Well, there's lots to talk about, so what I'm prolly going to have to do is break it up into bite-sized chunks, otherwise I'm never going to get through it all.

What I want to talk about first is the baby. Amy and I are having one. During the blogging hiatus last spring we were going to have one, but it ended up being a tubular pregnancy, and therefore no baby resulted. This time, however, it stuck, and the baby is due in June--somewhere around the 14th or so, which puts it just about a week after our one year wedding anniversary. Suffice to say, we are excited.

In the early going Amy was hoping for a boy and I was hoping for a girl (like duh), but we would of course be happy either way, because you know it's our kid and you just can't help loving it either way. It really doesn't matter. Nevertheless, we've been leaning girl for the past few weeks. We had an ultrasound done this afternoon and while it isn't definitively certain ... the tech seemed to believe it was in fact a girl. I can't confirm that 100%, but that's what we are tentatively going with for now. If we end up with a bunch of pink elephants and such and then a winkie shows up on future ultrasounds, we promised not to be disappointed, and we'll just save the girly girl stuff for the next one, if in fact there is to be a next one.

We have also already picked names (we did this ages ago). The boy name was set early on, like last February, but the girl name was trickier. We had about 20 names in contention, narrowed it down to a final seven, selected a good middle name for each, but it was Skyler Jade that just stuck with us for whatever reason. That's the name Allison likes the best, too. She's absolutely convinced it's going to be a girl and won't even hear any argument that she isn't going to get a sister.

So that's where we are right now with the Endgame.

In progress.