We'll Have to Change the Title of the Blog

Here's a picture of a fetus due the end of May:


A GIRL fetus.

Lorin is beyond excited about having a little sister. She came to the ultrasound, and afterwards her dad took her to school while I visited with the doctor (everything looks good). Apparently, she had to tell everyone in the waiting room and everyone in the school office that we were having a GIRL. The receptionists told me about it when I left 20 minutes later. And her teachers reported that she couldn't even hear them; she just kept repeating that we are having a GIRL. She has already made her sister a card, and she talks to my belly ("Uterus," she would correct me) every night.

We'll see how she feels when she's sharing a room...

First Day of Kindergarten

Whew, I'm glad I got that other post in there, or it'd look like I never blog.

Lorin started kindergarten at a Montessori charter school nearby. Her assessment of the first day: "I loved it...oh, it was so wonderful." Let's hope that feeling lasts.

If she really cared, she wouldn't have posed.

It was "Wacky and Tacky" day at dance camp:


Lorin's only request when I took her picture?

"Just don't put this on the internet."

Besides making me laugh, that line ensured that I'd break my 10-month blogging fast.

Her 2d First Day of Preschool

Here's the picture I made her take:


Here's the picture she made me take:


Here's the picture that represents how my baby is growing up and moving away from me and blah blah blah I get 2.5 hours three days a week to myself:

It's good to have goals.

Without discussing whether I approve of the conversation or not, here's what I overheard between Lorin and her Daddy:

Mr. T: Lorin, would you rather be pretty, smart, or funny?

Lorin: Funny!

Mr. T: And then would you rather be pretty or smart?

Lorin: Pretty!

Mr. T: And then what do you want to be?

Lorin: Shiny!

Um, not actually a choice, but I think we got our answer nonetheless. It'll save us money on private school at least...