Halloween and a baby update

Here are some cute pictures of Will in his Halloween costume (Pluto, or as Will says, "Mickey's dog"). Thanks to a nasty cold, I didn't get to see him dressed up, but he had a good time trick-or-treating with Daddy, Aunt Cindy, Uncle Shawn, and Grandma. According to John, it took him awhile to catch on to the concept (he tried to return his candy from the first house to the people at the second house he went to), but once he realized he got candy at EVERY house, he became very enthusiastic ("More treat! More treat!). We've been rationing out his candy one piece at a time since then--it is so funny how he savors every bite of chocolate, I guess he gets that from me. :-)

I was so depressed about missing the trick-or-treating, that I decided to go to the Florida-Georgia game with John and Shawn despite my cold--probably a bad idea, I spent a lot of the game coughing germs all over everybody around me. But it was worth it! (to me, at least, maybe not to the folks around me!) We had a great time watching the Gators lay a beat-down on the Bulldogs, nothing like a little revenge. In fact, this might be the second best game I've ever seen in person (second only to the 1997 UF-FSU game). Go Gators!!

Here's the most recent baby bump photo--this is me today, at almost 19 weeks. I can't believe we're almost halfway through this pregnancy already.

I thought this pregnancy was going to be a piece of cake after the worries we had with Will, but apparently this little baby is going to give us a few worries too! One of my prenatal screening tests came back indicating this baby is at increased risk of Down's syndrome. The test has a high false positive rate, so I'm going for an ultrasound tomorrow that may give us a better idea of whether the baby is likely to have Down's or not. We will be okay either way, but I do not handle uncertainty well, so this has been a little stressful. On a positive note, we will hopefully find out the baby's sex tomorrow as well. Despite assuming I will have nothing but sons (a la Mimi), I actually have a gut feeling that this one might be a girl. We'll see if I'm correct tomorrow, as long as the baby cooperates!