Waiting for Fuzzyhead

We've been lousy at keeping up our blog this year. Tom started back into school full time the first week of January, and he's usually the one who writes these posts. He's doing really well - got a 4.0 the first quarter. Now he has finals coming up again in another couple of weeks and it looks like he'll pull out another one. I'm such a proud wife - he's been working so hard!

In other exciting news, it's happened at last, just when we were about to content ourselves with the cold reality that it would never happen: we're having a baby. That little shadow on the upper right of the ultrasound is growing into our baby (taken a few weeks ago). It has a heartbeat, fingers, toes, and even a gender-neutral nickname: Fuzzyhead.

Our brains have just been awhirl with all the implications of this news and what it will mean in terms of changing our lives. Mostly, though, we're just flat-out excited. Appropriately, the little Gunn is due within a week of Christmas. This will be one unforgettable Christmas.

I'm nine and a half weeks along and we've had a blast telling family and friends, fantasizing about the future, pondering possible names, and even gathering up a few things to prepare. In fact we bought a stroller and car-seat travel set on Craigslist recently. Having it around our place is a regular reminder of the huge changes ahead.

Tom feels confident that it'll be a girl. I go back and forth, but we'll both be thrilled either way.

We're so blessed. We're a little scared about the changes coming, but mostly we're just grateful our family is going to grow.

-Amy