"its official, we have diapers"

This is the thought that came to my mind as we hauled in all the marvelous shower gifts after yesterday's party. Specifically, the large 216 ct swaddlers box that I was carrying at the time. The shower was wonderful. It was great to be 'gifted', but more than that it was great to see all these cool people I know get a chance to meet each other. Folks we knew from PA were able to meet people we work with from OMF. New friends we met last year got to meet people we've know for years. I just loved bringing them all together. Ok, I didn't really do much more than laugh and eat cake, so I guess I was happy to be the reason people came together. I left with many promises for dinner or movies later. I hope we can follow up on some of that before the baby's here. There were so many more of you I would have gladly had there except for the barriers of space and time. Must get thank you notes out into the mail soon.

With that being said, we now have I think most of what we need. There were a few items that we will want to pick up, but we can do that in the next few weeks. Thank you for all the advice on the last post. We will take notes and run to the store soon.

I have officially "swelled" again. tobo has been doing flip-flops for a day or two and now I'm really putting the stretch in my maternity wear under a lot of stress tests. Just when you think you can't get any bigger... So, I'm glad to be done working, just in case I have to wear a moo-moo for the last 8 weeks. Here is the evidence:
"there she blows. a hump like a snow hill, it is moby dick"



Paul thought this was funny.



And a more normal shot of paul:


The problem with having such a wonderful party is I was pretty much beat until this afternoon. I slept for 5 hours _straight_ before waking up last night. No kidding. That's huge based on my usual sleeping habits these days. I'll probably post a little bit more about this later, but I think I'm done for the night.