News today on my "babies" from both coasts

Today was a fabulous day for me, and also of course for Dada and Isaac. Why, you ask? The good news came forth on two fronts:

1) We received word today from their publishing offices in D.C. that the journal Science is publishing a paper I wrote on my research. For those of you not familiar, Science is pretty much the Grand Poobah of journals in the science world. Well, technically they share that title with Nature, but the fact remains that if you publish in Science, you are the sexy. My boss is throwing a party for me tomorrow. I had been working on this manuscript for a year, literally from the weekend before Isaac was born until the weekend after his first birthday.

2) After missing my period yesterday, and taking a home test before work this morning and then a blood test at the doctor's office later...
We are pleased to announce that we are pregnant! The impending arrival of a little brother or sister for Isaac will be sometime next February -- internet calculators suggest a due date of February 21.

We are gloating over both, natch, obviously Isaac v 2.0 much more important than the other. Too bad I can't celebrate with a big swig of champagne, but I will go instead of a celebratory Odwalla smoothie.