A Little Starstruck

I must admit, I am a little starstruck. For those of you who are fans of Toad The Wet Sprocket (well, lets face it, even if you aren't a devote follower, you have enjoyed at least some of their music) and are familiar with their frontman, Glen Phillips, you will know that he is a great musician/songwriter. Well I had the pleasure of meeting him personally last week. Even helped give him a tour of Goddard. He is a really nice guy and I must say I was really impressed with his knolwedge of space and engineering. He held a concert at the Goddard cafeteria and it was great seeing a room of engineers rocking out. I highly recommend his latest solo album! (you can sample it on his website and buy it there).

Picture is of me with Glen in front of a model of JWST, credit is Glen Phillips and from his website. He has a post up on his blog about the visit (and mentions me by name :-))!

Baby Update

So we had another ultrasound today. Always great to get another chance to see the baby and hear that wonderful little heartbeat. The baby is very healthy. The scan today was to check a risk factor for a number of potential developmental defects and the baby did wonderfully and we are in the low risk group.

The baby was also active and showing off for us, bouncing and jumping around in there. We have also scheduled our next ultrasound for May 28, which is now the close date for the gender poll. Get your votes in!

The picture from today isn't as clear as some of them have been as we are now using the standard ultrasound so we are on the lower resolution end right now, but in 7 weeks the baby should be getting pretty big!