Wait, I'm still here!

I really didn't mean to leave you guys hanging all that time.  Urban Honking moved to a new server and during the interim we couldn't post any new entries.  Unfortunately that included posting about not being able to post.  The upside to the move, of course, is everything is now new and shiny.  I'm hoping to do a little design renovating around here, too.  So let's just move past the non-self-imposed hiatus for now and focus on all the exciting things I have to tell you.  Like:

That's our son!  All that morning sickness and the baby bump and the squiggling around in my belly--turns out it really is a baby.  With, like, fingers and toes and a mouth and stuff.  I didn't really think about the ultrasound as being a movie, but that's what it is.  We got to watch him kicking and sucking his thumb and making kissy faces against my belly.  It was totally surreal and probably the coolest thing I've ever witnessed.

So: a boy!  We didn't have a preference and wanted to find out, so that was a fun surprise.  I know a lot of people hold out on finding out the gender of the baby so they'll have a "final" surprise at the end, but I kinda figure there will be lots of surprises to come.  I've never once heard anyone say, "Now that the baby's born, everything's so boring and predictable!"  Plus, now we know to buy footballs and trucks for the nursery instead of Disney princesses.  Very helpful. 

If you haven't already, you should stop by and wish Sally a hearty congratulations for giving birth to her own little boy last week.  I'm glad I have an internet friend a few months ahead of me on this one so I can make use of all her birth and baby-raising advice.

I'm hoping to post a lot this week to make up for the weeks of silence.  You can look forward to stories about botched closed captioning and putting the expletives back into the expletive-free cake.  Seriously, the cake was cursed.