Guess what...

...I haven't died. I really am still here and so appreciate all of the well-wishes after the last post. I guess somewhere in the haze of pregnancy and all that has been going on in our lives, blogging got stuffed under the bed. But, I just HAD to share our news today!

Last night was very difficult for me as I contemplated this morning's ultrasound with the perinatalogist. Although the likelihood was slim, I'd been worried that this little one might have problems similar to Cameron's and the stress of it all was really getting to me. I had even been dreaming that the baby had a cleft palate (don't we just torture ourselves sometimes?!). My best friend/boy friend/gorgeous husband was, as always, right there, helping me through it all. Let me tell you, no one makes me laugh the way he does. When he was showing me his dry, ashy, wintertime legs last night, I told him they looked grey in color. (He still has gorgeous legs, by the way...really, we should be living in Arizona so he can wear shorts all year round. They're amazing.) He said, "I know! They look like E.T. did after he got sick!" So, I lost it after that and laughed until I cried (which, actually, because I'm a McClure and we are genetically incapable of laughing without crying, this isn't too hard to do, but still. I laughed A LOT.) As you can see from the recent pictures below, after 9 1/2 years of marriage, he's still able to make me smile even through the challenges of life.


(Here is Handyman Dave, showing off the beautiful, brand-new kitchen faucet that he installed all by himself!)

Anyway, back to the ultrasound this morning. I am so very thrilled to report that our sweet, little baby

BOY is HEALTHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess it's protocol for us to have the cardiologist do an echocardiogram in the next couple of weeks just to make sure that everything is okay, but the perinatalogist said today that the echo (an ultrasound of the heart) would just be the "frosting" to make sure; he doesn't see ANYTHING of concern. No heart problems, no cleft palate (I can stop freaking out about that, too), just a beautiful baby. We are so very happy and thankful!


And now, the contents of my uterus, in all of his glory:





P.S. Any ideas on boy names??? Boy names are so very hard!