If you ever see our child wearing matching socks...



Be appropriately amazed. And congratulate us with a coffee or something.


Check out Kaye's amazing cupcakes! She predicts that the baby will be born tomorrow and that it will be a girl. If her prophesies are anything like her cupcakes you can expect the news of the birth of our daughter really soon!


100-year-old Grandma strikes again! Is this not a beautiful blanket? Twas a lovely Saturday, and the efforts of Jo, Nik and my mum were greatly appreciated - as twas the presence and presents of so many of my lovely friends!

As for updates, the baby feels like it is performing rather grandiose somersaults in a pretty confined space, but I'm hoping that it is actually staying right where it is because the midwives have declared it to be beautifully engaged, in a great position, chin tilted down and not-too-small, not-too-big. All of that strikes me as good news! Now I am just dying to find out who it is!!! Jon had another "it's a boy" dream last night. I am just convicted of the absolute reality that it is no more likely to be a boy than a girl, or a girl than a boy! I know that sounds like the world's most bleedingly obvious statement but you kind of go through phases of thinking one thing and then another and right now I'm thinking that I can't possible think in any way until I actually see this little person!

Anyway, this morning I woke at about 3am, tossed and turned til 5am, got up, ate toast and strawberry jam, had a hot shower, made myself a hot chocolate, watched an episode of The West Wing (remember the one where they think they're going to have to fire the Surgeon General for her comments on the addictive properties of pot?) and then went back to bed at about 7am and slept til 10:30. Is God training me to sleep at times that are other than night? I think it's a good idea on the whole but it wasn't much fun between 3 and 5...

Rach has requested some photos of the baby room - I'll take some now and post them up tomorrow. We're still waiting on one particular item to arrive at ikea and then we'll be totally set. Oh, and then we'll be wanting the actual baby to justify all of this mucking about!

In non-baby related news, I bought the DVD of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun the other day in Broadway for $8. Haven't watched it in at least ten years, possibly even fifteen. I'll let you know if it matches up to my very, very fond memories. Nik, if you're reading, you should come over and watch it with me. And then just so that we can have the real Year 3 experience, we could also get out Nadia and Electric Dreams and then play "Rockstar" until we remember that you have to do so much maths and give it up for the YTT Game.

And one more thing. Lots of people are going to see Mark Driscoll tonight. I know very little about him except for the fact that people talk about him as if they've converted to following him as the messiah. I think that Mark Driscoll is a topic about which I am going to remain as ignorant as I can for as long as I can. Let me know if this is anything like the folly of not reading the Harry Potter books just because everyone else is. If you can convince me of that (and I might take some convincing), I'll repent in sackcloth and ashes and jump on the bandwagon with all of you other rabid evangelicals!