Castle in the Clouds

He has arrived and he is perfect!

With the holidays being past, my writing conference attended, and our Virginia trip behind us, there's nothing really left to distract me from Baby Watch 2020.   Tomorrow will mark the beginning of Week 28.   That leaves...12 weeks to go.  Wow.  Three more months and baby will be here! Mama is doing good even though she got diagnosed with gestational diabetes a week or so ago.  I was so surprised by this.  She is a tiny little thing, eats fairly healthy for a college student, and wasn't really having any major symptoms.  The only complaints she really had were early on when she kept getting dizzy spells.  I put that down to hormone changes, especially after they seemed to disappear or lessen a great deal after the first trimester.  We're doing the best we can to help her succeed with the diet she's been given.  We'll know more after next week when she attends her diabetes instructional class. We should have a better ...

It's been some time since I've updated the blog.  After Gage graduated high school, we had a few notable things happen, but the most significant and exciting is that K.C., my 21-year-old, is going to be a daddy next spring. Well, technically he's already a daddy because mama is 15 weeks along.  Just a couple of days ago we found out that the little peanut is a boy.  We did a reveal party and everything.  With a week's notice!  We bought decorations, figured out a menu, cleaned and decorated our basement, and set up a FB event for invited friends and family.  It was rushed, but it still turned out surprisingly well. Look how cute!   These two had no idea what their little bundle of joy was going to be.  Daddy was hoping for a girl and I think mommy still had a secret desire for a boy even though the rest of us nearly had her convinced it was going to be a pink, pink, pink. The only people who knew the truth of the matter were Gage ...