Zach Dotsey

Amanda Dotsey, 18 weeks pregnant

We’ll still call little Pistachio little Pistachio this week, but as you may have read Amanda and I have been busy narrowing down names, so perhaps by next week we’ll use a real name!  We also no longer need to refer to the baby with the gender-neutral “it” as we can [...]

Amanda and I started out the day discussing names for our little girl.  We’re wanting to name her after grandmothers, and we were workin with the following names:
Lilian — Isabelle — Maggie — Jane — Jewel — Rose — Melia — May
For a long time our front runner was Lilian Isabelle or Lilian Isabella, and [...]

Just thought I’d post some of the e-mail and Facebook comments people have left us about the news that we’re having a girl.
I’m so excited for you guys!!! I can imagine how exciting you both must be. I bet this makes it more real!
~Lisa Hauenstein
Congratulations!!! That is so exciting to find out and start [...]

A GIRL!

A girl!

This morning, before Amanda and I went to see the baby doctor, I told her that while I’ve been really excited to find out what our baby’s sex will be, and I’d be excited to find out what it is, I didn’t think I’d have a huge reaction.  I mean, I’ve said all [...]

I feel a little weird putting my daughters naughty bits up here.

Amanda had two dreams about today’s ultrasound over the past couple days.  The first one was that we showed up late so they wouldn’t let us have it.  In the second they said that since we had the emergency ultrasound a few weeks ago [...]

Not too much to talk about today.  Work was really busy and the dogs were driving me crazy.  They kept running around and tussling with each other while I was trying to get stuff done.  I’d let them out but then Harvey would start barking and Bruce would join in.
Other than that, Amanda and I [...]

Back to work today.  The morning was paticularly busy.
Amanda and I spent a portion of the evening playing some more Little Big Planet.  I think we caught her up just about all the way to how far we had played separately yesterday.
Georgetown beat UConn, which is great news to me.  My least favorite team is [...]