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Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time again! :) If you knew Mike and I while I was pregnant with Ruby (and you read this blog at that time), then you know that we did a poll about her birth time and date, gender, weight, and length. :) We hosted the poll through a site called ExpectNet.com, and it was really fun to see everyone's guesses! Ruby surprised us all and showed up MUCH earlier than expected, so we all ended up with pretty high scores (lowest score wins.) In the end, Pop won with the fewest number of penalty points. To see all the guesses, you can still visit her poll by following THIS LINK.

We're going to do a poll for this baby, as well. Now that we're safely into the second trimester, I decided to go ahead and open the poll to everyone. You can play the game by following THIS LINK, or you can click on the banner below:

I hope you all play!  It was really fun last time.  :)

As to the second part of this post...ORIGINAL READERS!!

This weekend, we helped Marc and Stephanie (Mike's brother and his wife) move into their new apartment!  (I will be dedicating an entire post to that later today or tomorrow, once I get the pictures downloaded and uploaded.)  :)   While we were there, many of you mentioned my Sweet Tea addiction.  :)  The only way you could know about that addiction is if you're still reading this blog!!  :)  I'm so glad.  Dean-o also mentioned that one of our favorite people, Mary Beth, still reads our blog!  (He called you a blog-stalker, MB, you should beat him up for it!)  :) :) :)  I just wanted to take a moment to thank the few and the faithful original readers.  This blog was set up for YOU!  Please don't be intimidated by the new wave of readers and commenters.  They are wonderfully nice and friendly.  They won't bite.  (Amy, promise them you won't bite.)

Anyway, I'm not sure that the original readers are intimidated, Mike just mentioned that you might be.  I wanted to make sure that you all know that we love hearing from you.  We get to see the other yay-hoos on a pretty regular basis, so we really appreciate it when we get to hear from all of you (Pop, Gigi, Aunt May May, Uncle Marc, Aunt Steph, Mary Beth "The Twin Lover", Aunt Sarah, etc...).  Consider this your formal invitation to come out of the wood-work and comment like you used to comment.  We love you so much!!  Thanks for sticking by us through the past three and a half years.  :)  This post's for you!  :)