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I. No, no baby yet. Still just sitting around here. Keep checking for news. II. We slept in today: A lazy Sunday morning. Could it be the last? III. Hanging out at home. Too big for most of my clothes. Why bother with pants*? [*For the non-Americans: I mean "trousers." ] IV. I read baby books For sleep and nursing advice. They all disagree. V. At night I wake up Once an hour or thereabouts: Child squashing bladder. VI. Baby's room is set, Freezer's full of casseroles, Bags are packed. Let's go!

April 23, 1564 - often conjectured to be Shakespeare's birthday, though without proof (we only know that he was baptized on the 26th). April 23, 1616 - the day on which he shuffled off this mortal coil.

Grading completed...check. Hospital bags packed...check. Haircut and dental cleaning...check. 38 weeks checkup with midwife...check. Get-to-know-you meeting with pediatrician...check. Re-read AND watched all of LOTR...check. Feeling like a large marine mammal mistakenly arrived on land...check.

About damn time, you might say, I finally got a Flickr account going. The link is at the left.

No, no, that's not Guppy, he's a boy. Eric's youngest brother and his wife had their baby girl yesterday at 6:21 p.m. EDT, a few weeks ahead of schedule. She is a diminutive but healthy 5 lbs 13 oz and doing fine. I have been telling Guppy repeatedly in the past 24 hours that there is no need to follow his new cousin's example; we will be happy to wait until the end of the month for him to make his appearance. (Or at the very least, another 2 weeks would be awesome.)

Which means Guppy could easily arrive anytime between 2 weeks (let's hope not, I don't quit work for another 2 weeks) and 6 weeks from now. This has been a big week for baby stuff. Eric's lab held a shower for us on Monday, where we got our super-awesomely-wonderful glider and a few other things. On Friday, there was a surprise shower for me at school, with the star gift being a wildly tricked-out Kelty backpack carrier (comes with: detachable rain/sun shield, zip-in daypack/diaper bag, about twenty pockets, a rear-view mirror, and more adjustable padded straps than I can figure out what to do with). Then today we went to Target and got the rest of the things that we figure we need (regular diaper bag, mattress pad for crib, night light, etc., plus Eric really wanted a Baby Bjorn so now we have one of every baby-transporting device known to mankind - a sling, a Bjorn, a backpacker AND a stroller). So...we think we're basically done. We're going to install the car se...

I almost forgot to say "Happy Easter" to everyone! Katie and I made Easter eggs last night and now they are sitting on the counter looking very fey and fetching. When I was a kid, we had to keep the eggs in the fridge and eat them all. After a week, I would be completely sick of hard boiled eggs. Now I take an excessive amount of pleasure in arranging the eggs for display, leaving them out for a week or so where I can look at them, and then wastefully throwing them away.