(drum roll please)

Miss Sammy is going to be a big sister!

I am VERY excited to tell you all that I'm about 12 weeks' pregnant. My due date is Dec. 27, so we are looking at having a Christmas baby!

Here's a picture of what our little peanut looked like early last week:

The head's on the left, with the body across the bottom and teeny legs and feet on the right.

Here's why I'm so excited to share this news: Between the time I had Sam and this pregnancy, I had two miscarriages. One was in December 2004, and I was about 15 weeks along before I found out the baby had died about two weeks before that. The other was in December 2005, when I was only about 8 or 9 weeks.

So this first trimester has been scary. I've had a few near-complications, too, so it's been that much more stressful. I'm really not going to feel comfortable until I pass that 15-week mark, but I've just been so ecstastic about this baby that I stop myself from talking about him/her.

(And, by the way, this is why I haven't posted much lately. Man, have I been exhausted!)

So what advice do you have for me? How did you handle being pregnant after a miscarriage, or how did you handle being pregnant with a rambunctious little one running around?