Breaking down & starting a blog

Hello family and friends! After enjoying friends' blogs and websites, we've decided to jump on the bandwagon with this new-fangled way to keep in touch. We hope to be good about updating it, and that it will limit the quantity of spam emails in your inbox :)

So here's the scoop: We're expecting the little one around April 30, which means that we're past 17 weeks and unbelievably, almost halfway there! At this point, we are not planning to find out whether the baby is a boy or a girl. (Of course there's a chance that curiosity will get the best of us, and we'll keep you posted either way!)

Below are a couple of belly pics, from 14 weeks:


And 17 weeks:


And of course, we couldn't forget the other members of our little family, Cleo and Otis, who are still very adorable and lazy. According to our wonderful puppysitter, they have been acting more excited than usual (although I suspect that has more to do with someone actually playing with them instead of shopping online for baby gear :)