That’s right. It’s October 15, the theoretical due date, and there’s no baby in sight. Jessica feels pretty good and is spending the day knitting. I’m cleaning up the house a bit and putting together my bag for the hospital trip (and, yes, I know I should’ve done that last week). But no labor, no […]
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Sometime back in the Summer I started taking the extra pennies out of my pocket at the end of the day and putting them in my self-illuminating Burger King Gandalf Goblet, where they quickly became known as “Whozit’s College Fund”. Don’t laugh — the kid’s gonna need something when s/he graduates from high school, right? […]
Today, Friday the 13th, was my last day at work until January 2. I haven’t been away for more than a week at a time in five years, since I started my job in August 2001. It’s a terribly odd feeling–not at all what I expected. I’ve transfered my projects (and boy was THAT a […]
I’ve been knitting off and on since 1990. One thing that always inspires me to pick up my needles is the impending or recent birth of a baby. To date, all of my nieces and nephews have a hand-knit baby blanket from me. For my nephew Nathan (now 12), I knitted a yellow lace chevron […]
Tristan is adorable. Soon we’ll never see him again. — Cool beans! The above picture and text came from my new cell phone thanks to the Postie plugin for WordPress (and some config tweaking by moi). I really wanted to get this done before we left for the hospital so that we could keep you […]
Last month, I had a baby shower hosted by my sisters-in-law Stacy and Tia. I was a little worried at the outset that my brand of humor (I did call Whozit a parasite at one point…) would not go over well with the shower crowd, but I shouldn’t have. One look at those cute hooded […]
As D-Day draws nearer and nearer, Jessica was starting to worry that we wouldn’t get around to scanning our ultrasound pictures and getting them posted here before we actually had photos of Baby Whozit ex utero. So I spent an hour over at Perry and Tia’s yesterday quickly ripping these onto a USB drive and […]
Matt and I are very aware that pregnancy and new parenthood can make couples hideously self-absorbed. “We won’t be like that,” we promised ourselves. “We’ll talk about other things; we’ll remember the whole world doesn’t revolve around us; we’ll be better than those other couples.” Or not. Yesterday dear friends in San Francisco called to […]
Before I got pregnant, I assumed the hardest part about being pregnant would be the morning sickness, the back pain, the fatigue, etc. You know, the pregnancy part. Not so. For me–who admittedly has been blessed with no morning sickness, no back pain, and little fatigue during this pregnancy–the hardest part has been sorting through […]
A combination of (a.) embarassment that we hadn’t taken any pictures for such a long time and (b.) fear that Baby Whozit’s delivery is becoming more and more imminent every day forced us out into the front yard with a camera this beautiful October morning. Check out that belly! And then check out more thrilling […]