Well, I finally bit the bullet and sent out a mass email to close to "everyone" telling them about our incoming baby buddy.  I've been reeeally slow about getting the news out.  Mostly, we have been nervous about getting through the first trimester roughly unscathed, but now that we've had our early appointments & ultrasounds, we're feeling a bit more comfortable.  (Well OK, I'm feeling more comfortable -- I think Amy might have this under control already.)

Anyway, it took me a long time to write my email announcement so I figured I'd just go ahead and repost the bulk of it here.  Thanks for hanging out with us!  And a big "Welcome!" to all our friends & family who now know about this site.  We're off-and-running now.  (Amy and I have a lot of work to do!)

Hi friends and family,

Here's the deal:  I've got something to tell you.  It's been hard to figure out a way to sugar-coat this, so I guess I'll just dive right in...

Amy's working on a big new project.  She's decided to create a whole new person out of microscopic bits of each of us.  I've seen pictures of this project and it's starting to seem like she's going to succeed.  At first, I wasn't too sure about it, but as the weeks roll on, it's becoming very obvious that sometime in the last half of October, she will be giving birth to our baby.

Yeah, that's right.  You might need to read that again.  Just in case you need to hear that a different way:

       HOLY CRAP, WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!?!???

*ahem*  Sorry about that.  I'm still adjusting.

So this is big news for us, as you can likely guess.  We've been pretty quiet about it mainly due to being nervous about Amy's "advanced maternal age".  I won't get specific about how "advanced" (I'm not authorized to give out info like that) but it's been cause for concern from doctors and us, regarding various complications possible.  It's just a normal part of having babies at our advancing ages.

More info... Amy's about 13 weeks (14 now?) along and like I said, we're looking at October for our lives to be irreversibly altered beyond recognition... *ahem*... sorry.  More adjusting.

I'm actually not sure what else to say about it.  "Hooray!" and "Yikes!" all wrapped up in a neat little package, I guess.  Amy is super-happy and I'm super-freaked-and-happy.  This is a great thing and we're both excited.  I'm shaking as I write this, but don't mistake that nervous energy as disappointment.  You just have to remember that Amy and I have been together a long time and have had a lot of time to establish a life with just the two of us (well, 4 of us, if you count the cats).  Adding another person to this family is no small event for us.  I know it's a big deal for anyone, but just remember we're kind of like a couple  of bachelors who've been hanging out together for 18 years.   Heck, it took me a good 5 years just to stop asking for "Amy Johnson" when I called her at work!  (Not too much of an exaggeration, embarrassingly enough.)

(I'll spare you the rest.)