Earl is Well

Well here it is, my blog. For those of you who are unaware, blog stands for weB LOG, basically just a collection of whatever the writer thinks he needs to put down in print on a (semi) regular basis. I've toyed with having a blog for sometime, though I never really had much to say I thought anyone would pay attention to. PLUS, I never really had a topic. That is, until now.

You see, Michele I are pregnant (well, actually SHE is, but I get to "be included") and things in our life are about to get crazy. Funny thing is, for some reason it still isn't real to me. Chele tried to get me to express my feelings today about it and the best I could muster was "confused and scared". You see, we did the whole sonogram thing today and it was really cool... Except it is still just a picture on a screen, or more accurately, flat panel TV. I'm an extremely "show me the money" kind of guy, so I'm sure it won't be very real to me until Earl comes out.

Yeah, that's what I'm calling him/her right now. I really wanted to call Sam Earl from the beginning, but got trumped on that one, so the baby will be Earl for awhile. I'm sure it may become Earline in another month (when you can see microscopic baby penises on a sonogram), but for now it's just Earl. Back to the sonogram...

We had the appointment today and were both apprehensive because Chele had been having a couple of hormone issues and we were not really sure Earl was truly THERE. So after the tech covered Chele's belly with frosty GOO, she did the test and, sure enough, there was Earl. He/she even squirmed a little and we saw the heart beat (all 167 beats per minute of it)!

So Mom and baby are fine and Dad's just trying to figure out how he's going to get everything ready in time. Things will work out, they always do...