Life These Days

Having celebrated Easter and survived the post-Easter, post-sugar-high, Easter-grass-has blanketed-our-house fall-out (honestly, that part was so much harder than Easter -- I think all Mama and Daddy did Monday was discipline little girls), the circus is mostly just waiting around for Baby "Indy" to make his big debut.

To be honest, we had high hopes that the baby would choose to meet us this week. He apparently had other plans, which, to the best of our understanding, involved swimming around and kicking Mama as much as possible. Having resigned ourselves to the fact that all our children have arrived on their own timeline, we've used the time to finish up the last-minute projects that probably should have been finished long ago -- washing and installing the car seat, setting up the bassinet, locating all the pieces of the pack 'n play, and packing a hospital bag (okay, so that last one's still not finished, but it's not like there's all that much we really need). Mama even managed a dinner out with her dear friend Jenny, who drove for an hour just to have dinner at a not-particularly-good Turkish restaurant, before turning around to drive another hour home to her little boys, who don't get up any later than the girls at the circus. What a friend! And Uncle Kevin and cousin Nora came for playdate (and to diagnose Mama's extraordinarily slow computer). What a family! Otherwise, we've been spending a lot of time walking around post, playing in the backyard, and doing the usual clowning around.

Obviously.