Anita and I went to the Dr. and got the latests baby-weight… it’s 31 pounds. That takes the pregnancy weight from ~20% to ~25% of her previous body weight.
A picture’s worth 1000 words… and I’m wouldn’t write that much anyway, but here are some pictures to prove my point:
And a few more, for good measure:
http://lynncoins.com/lunar.htm – looking at the basic calendar, Anita’s a monkey, Alan’s a goat and Poppie will be a rat.
http://lynncoins.com/chinese_newyear.htm –
however this link informs that the chinese new year really begins on a different date every year based on a lunar calendar. As such: Anita is really a
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%28zodiac%29”>goat/sheep (earth sheep), Alan is really a horse (earth horse), and Poppie will be a pig (fire pig).
<p> </p> <blockquote> <p> The Pig type is usually an honest, straightforward and patient<br /> person.
I may well get around to uploading pictures of it myself, but until then… I’m going to ride on the accolades of giants… My mom flew into town and has already posted a bunch of photos with captions:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cathypennington/AnitaSBabyShower
Update: 2007.12.26
I finally got around to uploading the images for this babyshower in my photos.
This site [hearthsong] looks like they have a lot of really cool stuff for kids… In a couple of years I suspect we’ll get a bunch of stuff from here – a lot of learning toys and slightly less corporate-nickelodeon commercialism (it seems).
Thanks to Anita doing research (and generally being excited in all things baby’ish) we have a more solid conviction to cloth diapers.
http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/joy-of-cloth.html
– good article on pros and cons http://www.greenmountaindiapers.com/newmom.htm – good pictures and helpful info on how to use and chose which type And in case you haven’t heard or picked up on it… we have pretty much decided on the name “Penelope” after finding out that it was going to be a girl at yesterday’s ultrasound.