Blueberry's first books

Sex books for baby by Corinne S.

The other night I was getting sandwiches to go from Honey Hole so I went over to Toys in Babeland to browse while I waited. (Can I take this opportunity to note the lack of pregnancy and trying-to-conceive toys, lubes, and books at TIB? Would it kill them to carry Pre~Seed and a book or two about getting it on while pregnant?)

Anywho, while I was browsing the books I saw that they had several books on sex topics for kids of various ages. I was immediately curious about the ones for the littlest kids, since I am a big fan of not making sex something you have to learn about at age X, but instead just learning progressively as you go along.

So I sat down and read through these books (yes, I was late getting back to our sandwiches) and I ended up taking two home: First Comes Love and What's the Big Secret. It tickles me that my first book purchases for Blueberry are about sex. I guess that's the kind of parent I want to be, even if she won't be reading these for a while yet. ;-)

Hot day

12:00 Friday. The corporate throngs are out enjoying our first very nice day in quite a while.

Sedaris' autograph

Sedaris' autograph by Corinne S.

Today there was an "author fishbowl" for Amazon.com employees with David Sedaris. It was very cool to see him in person and hear him talk off-the-cuff. It took me 5 minutes or so to make his voice and face go together in my head though--with such a unique voice he's a pretty ordinary-looking guy.

I didn't have any of his books for him to sign, so I cut the end off of one of the boxes from his new book they raffles off. He didn't mind signing my cardboard though.

The line to get stuff signed took an hour to get through because he was being his chatty self and shooting the shit with everyone. He was drawing odd little pictures in people's books too.

He was narrating as he drew in the book of a woman before me in line--apparently the sketch was of a turtle that lives in an abortion clinic. He inquired of the room at large what a turtle who lives in an abortion clinic should be named. We had no brilliant retort.

I'm ordering the audio version of his new book from the library asap.

Boys

Tonight Alan came over and we barbequed for the first time this year. It was the first time I'd seen him since my bithday party last year. Alan was nice and patient enough to help us get the grill up and running, sweet the porch, clean off the chairs, and even chop onion. What a guy.

The food was yummy and the talk was good. It was really pleasant hanging out in the yard again too.

After cigar time and complete darkness, we moved indoors and the guys talked music. In this picture Benjamin and Alan are both looking at Benjamin's MacBook Pro. See any similarities? ;-)

Here she is

Wiggly baby by Corinne S.

Presenting Miss Blueberry--our baby girl. :-) 19 weeks old today. Current estimated delivery date November 5th.

18 weeks and a cold

I'm 18 weeks pregnant as of Friday and this Friday we have our big mid-pregnancy ultrasound, at which we'll hopefully learn Bluberry's gender.

In celebration of week 18, I've come down with a bad cold. I'm thankful I managed not to get sick until second trimester so I can take some basic meds. But on day 4 I'm feeling quite tired of this!

Here we are

Blueberry's family (week 17) by Corinne S.

Though I'm hanging onto my regular pants by the skin of my teeth, Blueberry is starting to peek out (in the form of my belly). Here we are--17 weeks into the pregnancy--in my insanely cluttered home office, which will eventually be Blueberry's room.

Sex and the City

Sex and the City by Corinne S.

On Friday night Ola took Steph, Maddy, and me to see the Sex and the City movie. It was an amazing estrogen fest at the theater. The impossibly long lines consisted of 98% women, many of them more dressed up than is normal for Seattle.

During the movie, the theater was filled with gasps, oohs, aahs, and laughter. It was a corny and fairly predictable movie, but an interesting event.

Birthday wish

Birthday wish by Corinne S.

Last weekend Benjamin and I went to Christy's surprise birthday BBQ. I held baby Mia for a while so her parents could eat and socialize. Took Christy's pic instead of Mia's though.