Bean Update - 20 Weeks - It's a ...

That's right Bean's a boy!!

C and M went to the doctor's Tuesday afternoon and got the latest round of sonograms.  Here's our favorite:

It's a profile view of Bean's head - the forehead is in the middle, with the H family nose jetting up just to it's left. 

Based on the sonogram photos, as well as some high-tech genetic mapping, C and M have created a simulation model of the expected Bean shortly after birth:

Hopefully, Bean won't really be that creepy ugly.  Check out the software that estimated this nastiness.

Oh No and Others

This past Tuesday, an Olympic sponsor who has close ties to Georgetown's MBA program brought a few Winter Olympians to mingle with students and offer inspirational advice.  I learned an important lesson from our conversations - I am not in shape to win an olympic medal.
Here are some of my mingling photos:

M & Shani Davis - Olympic Long-track speed skater

M & Andy Yohe - gold medal winner as 

part of the the US Paralympic Sled Hocky Team

M & a couple of classmates with Apolo Ohno -

Short-track speed skating olympic gold medalist

Only 30 days...

Only 30 days until M gets to re-live the experience...

wow, this is an oldie (13 years ago)

Officially on the Home-Stretch

Yesterday marked a big success in C and M's Big Adventure roadmap. April 15 is typically a day that instills fear and dislike in the hearts of all taxpaying Americans; however, for Public Policy students at G-town, it has a whole other, more sinister meaning – the annual deadline for thesis submittal. Yup, yesterday I trekked to the Car Barn (where the Public Policy school is) to submit my thesis. While many of my classmates were frantically finishing, thanks to my advisor, I was done a week in advance. But somehow, waiting to turn it in was just as nerve-wracking.

Anyway, I left the house about 3om, ran some errands on the way and showed up at 4 to turn it in – a full hour early…

As the picture shows, the Dean of Students was gone and her door was locked! There was no one to turn it in to! Thanks to quick thinking and the help of another administrator at school, I cleverly slid it under the door (and took a picture as proof). It’s now official; I’m on the downward slide towards graduation – only 36 days to go (and 2 papers)!!

Afterwards, C came up and we met the 3 other joint MBA-MPP students for a quick beer and a sunset on the roof of the Car Barn.
World of Work, here I come!

Cherry Blossom Weekend - No Vacancy at the Inn

This past weekend, Hotel C&M housed its most frequent couple-guests.  Hailing from lovely STL, the R's stopped by to see the cherry blossoms, Pregnant-C, Great Falls and M (of course).  Aside from pre-baby shopping, we made time to hit up the Cherry Blossom Festival down by the DC Tidal Basin. 

M, C, AB & DB along the tidal basin, under the trees

Cherry blossoms in front of paddle boaters and the Jefferson Memorial

C, hiding in the flowers