#2

We can't forget to mention that pretty soon another little boy will be joining our family. He is due March 15, which is coming up startlingly fast. I hope to clone myself before it happens because I don't know how I'm going to keep track of two kids otherwise.

We are still fighting over names, but had the excellent suggestion from a friend of Patrick Cornelius Robinson. Because then the initials would be PCR. (for you non-science nerds, that is polymerase chain reaction, a widely used technique in molecular biology). Yep, we are seriously considering that one.

when your husband isn't home

So I watched this movie today while r1 was at school. Not that I think he wouldn't have watched it with me, just that he probably wouldn't have enjoyed it, and have been thinking the whole time about all the other things he could have been doing (like re-caulking the bathtub, right?)

Anyway, I didn't even know this movie existed until my mom recommended it to me. It's the story of Beatrix Potter. I thought it was sweet and charming. Of course, after watching it I wanted to know how accurate it is, so I looked her up on wikipedia (always accurate). I especially like that it says that later in life "the local children knew her for her grumpy demeanour". Funny in a writer of children's stories.

what else?

For lack of anything else, I'm going to post a few pictures of our son, w1. They were taken on our most recent trip at Christmas to California to visit relatives.

Yay, it's Christmas!

We visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Here is r1 and w1 in front of a helicopter. Is it called Marine One? I don't know. r1 probably does...



It was great to be where the weather was warm enough to hang out outside and, um, stand on our favorite concrete block?

late as usual

and not even fashionably. r1 and I were talking the other day and an interesting question came up. If we had a blog that we knew our family and friends were reading, would we have more fun, simply for the sake of having something to post about? I think we tentatively decided that the answer would probably be yes. So, in an effort to spice up our otherwise pretty routine and boring lives (doubled by the fact it is winter and we ran out of indoor things to do in November), here we go....