A New Addition...

Rob and I are excited to announce that we are expecting a new addition to our family!! 

Our little son or daughter is due to arrive on 12.21.12. Not long after circling the 21st of December on my calendar, I heard a radio segment that opened my eyes to the fact that the birth of this little McKay is, apparently, not the only much-anticipated event that gives great import to this day.  For those of you who have not had recent motivation to spend stretches of time reading up on the 2012 Phenomenon, here's the scoop.  Baby McKay's due day is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan calendar.  Some suggest that this date will mark the end of the world. Others believe the date "marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation." 

And so lingers the question as posed in the image above (chosen from an unbelievable number of 12.21.12 images online), Doomsday or New Beginning for Mankind?  Although 12.21.12 (or somewhere there about) will likely mark the end of life as Rob and I currently know it, we choose not to believe those who would argue that our first born's due date marks the Earth's impending collision with a passing asteroid.  We, instead, look forward to collecting children's books, making homemade baby food, and jogging around Austin's Town Lake with a stroller.  Between the new house and our first child, we have so much for which to be grateful.

Along with such positive transformation to our lives, I do (secretly) cross my fingers that the supposed "galactic alignment" on 12.21.12 may bring us luck enough that we're moved in to our new home with time to set up the room that has long been marked on the floor plans as "nursery." 

And so, as many expectant mothers do, I have posted the sonogram pictures on our refrigerator, cut unpasteurized products from my diet, and now, a week into my second trimester, have begun to wonder how much longer I will be able to avoid the purchase of maternity clothes.  Maybe someone out there can help me out... Do you think this t-shirt would be too creepy stretched over a baby bump?

All joking aside, we are thrilled to know that our baby will enter the world surrounded by so much love from our friends and family and are glad to announce the news so that you, too, can have even more reason to anxiously await and anticipate December 21, 2012!