It's a BOY!

We are happy to report that Dan, Sloane, Dizzy and I are expecting a bouncing baby boy come July. The doc said he's 99% sure it's a boy. We're not doing an amnio this time, so we won't be 100% sure until D-day. But, from what I've read, it's VERY rare for a doctor to say it's a boy and then have a girl delivered (as opposed to the opposite way around). We'll have a structural ultrasound in a month and that should confirm the sex. And, more importantly, the doc says baby is looking very healthy and doing just great.

Another Sequel This Summer

Sloane will be getting a sibling of some type later this year, probably July. Below is purportedly the last known photo, although it kind of looks like Dizzy's eye.

Sunday in DC

What a day! Sloane went to a fabulous restaurant in Union Station (B. Smith's), frequented by ELMO himself! How did mommy's friend Shelton know that??? What luck! And, she wasn't messin' around with those blueberry waffles. Mmmmm. She yelled out "Mo!" before she had even finished the bite she had in her mouth. After brunch and a stroll through Union Station, Sloane took a quick tour of DC, hanging out with a police horse and checking out the WWII memorial with her grandparents. Then, on the way back to LA at the airport, she hung out with a group of tourists from Kenya, returning from their Obama inauguration trip. So exciting!

Sloane in DC ("darn cold")

OOOOOhhhhh! is right, Sloane. It was cccccccooooold. And, so fun to see her MDGs! (Maryland Grandparents) Maybe next time we go back it will be summer.
Despite the cold, we braved the zoo and saw the pandas, which Sloane enjoyed. More than the pandas though, she enjoyed running around without any mittens. She has decided they "just aren't for her." Good thing she lives in Southern California.

Slidin' Sloanie

Sloane's Sunday in the Sandbox

More Zoo

What babydaddy fails to tell you -- and what the iphone camera couldn't quite capture -- is that she was actually quite pleased to see the gorilla a few feet from her. As she turned around from the glass with a huge smile, exciting and pointing to the gorilla, her mom had the camera ready . . . and the battery died before what would have been THE shot of the day. Sigh. Even her mom's backup camera's battery was done. Mental note: before the next big outing, recharge the battery. Still, babydaddy has a point, the non-animal aspects of the zoo were much more interesting to little Sloane, including the other kids, the pig mosaic and random tunnels leading seemingly to nowhere. Next time I think we'll pass on the "children's zoo" and head right to the chimps. We definitely did one thing right though -- get there when the zoo opens and get in and out in under two hours to be home in time for Sloane's nap. That's the perfect amount of zoo or museum time for one day.