As of today, we know TWO NEW future friends for Lil Smudge!!! And we are beside ourselves with excitement.

One we learned about at Anna’s wedding, from the future grandparents who are friends of my parents. If we are a little late and Pam is a little early, Carol and Bob could be grandparents before my parents.

The other is even more personal and delightful for us! I think my shriek of excitement when she told me might have blown out a future Mom’s eardrum. Sorry about that!!!

I know that they’re telling people, but I should probably wait until the future parents have disclosed it online before *I* say something unambigious that will live on in perpetuity and blow the excitement of telling for them. Assuming her ear survived it, I know that she must be loving reactions like that. And I’m sure both parents are getting a lot of those kinds of reactions.

Therefore I am going to FORCE MYSELF to say nothing more than how incredibly thrilled we are that Lil Smudge will have a playmate and hopefully friend (or as came up on the phone, a future spouse; we did agree to an arranged marriage, regardless of the sexes of the children) whose parents are people Jill and I just love and expect to be friends with well into senility.

Congratulations!!! Big joint family vacations, here we come!

UPDATE:

Of course we know of a few other future friends for Lil Smudge. We cannot cannot cannot wait for Mindy and Melissa’s baby to be born. They’re due over Labor Day Weekend. Or for Misty and Barry to be joined by little Brighton in October. And locally, my cube neighbor Harry and his wife Jackie are due in the next week or 10 days.

But THESE friends were already pregnant when we found out that we’re having a baby. New pregnant friends are newly exciting.

Congratulations to ALL of our future parent friends. We’re so happy and excited to be on this adventure with lots of friends.