Alex is not our first daughter. Our first daughter (Sydney) died inutero at the gestational age of 21 weeks from complications from Turner Syndrome. It's still a painful memory so I won't go into the details, but if you're interested, click here to read what I wrote about it when it happened back in February 1997.

When my wife Andrea was pregnant with Sydney she was hormonal, but in a good way. Pregnancy just agreed with her and she became extremely mellow, which surprised everyone, especially me! Two months after we lost Sydney, Andrea became pregnant with Alex and this time she was hormonal, but not in a good way!

When she was about two months pregnant, we started to let people outside our family know about the pregnancy. Almost invariably I would be asked how Andrea was handling the pregnancy and one day I decided to answer truthfully while the two of us were talking with one of her friends. Ironically enough it was while we were in a church. You'll see why in a second.

Andrea's Friend: So how's the pregnancy going?
Andrea: Good, real good.
Andrea's Friend: So how are you feeling these days? Are you driving Todd crazy yet with the cravings?
Me: She's been an Angel...You do know that SATAN was an angel.

The look on her friend's face was priceless.