Update: Baby on the outside! All 9 lbs, 7 oz of him, as of 7:22 pm PST, Thursday January 18th, 2007! Sunny side up, the little bugger! Ma and jumbo baby both radiant and eating like horses! Stand by for pictures and stories, in that order, in due [...]

Miracle of childbirth ongoing, followed by appropriate period of reverential quiet. Regularly scheduled programming will resume in about a week, presuming all went well. Brace for yet more baby pictures and breathless enthusiasm about how incredible birth is, and how in awe I am of my beloved for doing it two times, on [...]

Mmmmmm, castor oil omelette. ‘Nuff said.

‘Cause it’s all interlude these days, ’til the little brother exits the barcalounger to end all barcaloungers, his ma’s cushy, plush, fuzzy dice-bedecked womb.
Herewith, the lil’ monkey’s monolog yesterday, for the indulgent parents that find a way to enjoy the Dadaist, stream-of-consciousness ramblings of toddlers:
We’re going in the rain.
It comes down.
And you can swim in [...]

Bayard Rustin in 1965, by Stanley Wolfson for the World Telegram and Sun, from Rustin’s Wikipedia page.
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We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
Oh deep in my heart
I do belive
That we shall overcome some day
Thus go the lyrics to the single most emblematic spiritual of the Black Civil Rights Movement [...]

Lil’ monkey observes our Walking Goddess midwife in action with the electronic fetal monitor. “Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!” goes the heartbeat!
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For all the phenomenal work of the birth mum, it really does take a heap of loving people to help a baby into the world. In our case, Team [...]

… and speed-vacuums everything you just vacuumed last night.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part seven in a ten-part series.
Around here, we answer the phone with the preface “Baby on the inside.” Thus, in a sing-song: “Baby on the inside; hello.” Not that friends and family wouldn’t expect to have been informed somehow [...]