thanks everybody for the good wishes! it really feels good...and scary! 3 kids!? what did i do!!
so maggie will be 4 1/2, dennis will be 2 1/2 when the baby comes. pretty crazy! maggie had just turned 2 when dennis was born, and what a difference. she was always a chatterbox, but she was speaking in full (pretty much) sentences at that time. dennis is almost 2 now (may 17, oh yeah, maggie turned 4 on sunday!) and is no where near talking like that. it makes him seem so much younger, still babyish in that way. it's weird what birth order can do.
so yes, d&ddisney you were right! though i must admit, try as i might, i was having trouble keeping optimistic. like i said, we were pregnant with another baby that had a chromosomal problem that was not a viable situation, so it really made it hard to be positive. does that make sense? i am always a positive, optimistic person, but the real pain and sadness of that situation was hard to ignore when faced with that possibility again.
anyway........that is ALL behind me now! we are just so thrilled all over again. it's as if we're just finding out again, and telling everyone again, you know? of course my MIL wanted to know if we were finding out the sex of the baby. now, a tiny bit of history - we didn't find out with our others, and it has always bothered her. i think it is GREAT that you even have that option, but it just wasn't for us. her daughters have found out and i guess she wanted me to also.
when i was pregnant with dennis, she even went as far as suggesting that the doctor just call her and tell her what we were having! amazing! anyway, i just said (as politely as i could muster) "no we found out exactly what we wanted to know."
so sorry for being a thread hog, now that i'm back i guess i'm back to my chatty old self.
it's good to be back!