Xiobhan: All About the X

Liam

I have an appointment this afternoon where hopefully I will learn when this baby is coming. During my last appointment - - two weeks ago-- my doctor had some serious reservations about leaving him in there until he was ready to come out on his own given his size. Just in case she says, "this afternoon" I am cleaning up my office, cleaning off my computer, and generally preparing for the fact that any day could be my last for at least eight weeks. I am hugely pregnant and terribly uncomfortable and while I am ready to have him out of me, I'm not sure I'm ready to actually take care of him.

With any luck, he will be as good as my sister's third: Liam who is shown here testing out some of my shower prezzies. I actually caught myself poking my protruding belly and saying, "Why can't you be more like Liam? Hmm?!"

This is an email that I just received from my Irish cousin Andy. He is nineteen and spending the summer traveling through New Zealand with friends. God this kid has the life. If I hadn't heard about all this from his mother I would think this email were fake.

FYI-
nyt = night
craic = fun
Lord of the Rings = My aunt was one of the producers and he spent a summer on the set helping out and hanging with Sean Astin and "the rest of the lads." Little bastard.

> hey guys...god its been the maddest week ever n im just in from a nyt
> out...not complaining!! we were supposed to spend all nyt out in
> queenstown n a bungee at 8.30 bt dat aint gonna happen!! anyway since
> my last email we went to the windy city (wellington in nz...so windy)
> for just a nyt n then went to friends of my aunt (richard janneke n
> paris) n made our way to christchurch where we met up with kieran
> mcglinchley hemish n chris n a few kiwi birds...some laff! then we
> headed for franz josep which is a huge glacier so we spent a half day
> on the glacier...some craic n then made it down to wanaka n
> queenstown!! its been quite crazy since!! such as...........looking
> really important on a movie set!! some laff!! seriously people were
> asking 'who r the guys in the north face jackets'!! probably coz all
> the important dudes (such as director n a.d.s!!)where wearin north
> face jackets!! chopper rides over the southern alps (which were the
> part of lord of the rings where the touches
> were all lite on top of the mountain) n stunts i didnt think a
> chopper could do!! skiing in cardrona (the most famous ski resort in
> nz) or more like falling n tumbling in cardrona!! n in the morning
> were doin a bungee over the kawaraa river which is the 'great river'
> in the rings so that should be kool! only 43m tho...wanted to do the
> big one (134m) bt was all booked out!! bummer but not complaining!!
> heading to melbourne monday morning (nz time) so that should be
> crazier...meeting up with the cuzs!! anyway let me know whats
> happening at home r werever u guys r!! lata
> hope ye are all really well
> andy

I just received these from an old friend in Wisconsin. (Big old school shout-out to Jill-O!) Apparently the fawn was found under a friend's back porch and their best guess was that the mother had been hit by a car. They were caring for it until it was healthy enough to release into the wild.

Please God Zuzu is as gentle and protective with Little Man as this dog, "Hogan" is with his new friend. Did I mention that Rhodesian Ridgebacks are just about the best dang breed in the whole wide world?

Why is it always West Virginia...

Ok. How badly was this guy farting?

This could make us all "feel better"

It's just too bad that Zuzu's birthday has passed and Christmas isn't for another six months because I think I just might have parted with $20 bucks for this. It's not that I don't support civility in the Senate, I do. I also support the American entrepreneurial spirit. That, and Zoos has about 25 lbs on the Democrat Dalmation next door so there wouldn't be a lot of smack talkin' at the fence...