Traveling baby

Greetings from Lima!

We're having a fantastic weekend sharing our great news with our extended families. It's such a relief to finally let the secret out ... and perhaps more importantly, to let our moms let the secret out. I think the phone trees have been ringing tonight.

For anybody who hasn't asked yet, yes we do plan to find out the sex of the baby. We have our first (and probably only) ultrasound scheduled for late July and if we can get a good look we definitely want to know if it's a boy or girl.

We haven't thought seriously about names yet, except to decide that if it's a boy the first name will be James, just like his father and grandfather and greatgrandfather.

I'm feeling great this week. We're at 15 weeks, which means the baby is 4 inches crown to rump, or about the size of a pear. Apparently the baby can now sense bright light, even though its eyes are shut, so if I put a flashlight on my belly it would wiggle away. That seems like an unnecessary stress for the little critter, so I'm not going to try it. But it's kind of neat to know it's possible.