Since the last entry I became a graduate with 5 letters behind my name: MBA/MA. That's $20,000 of debt per letter. The graduation was nice and those unbreathable gowns were a great equalizer....everyone looked like they might be 7 months pregnant! The speaker was Robert Zoellick the head of the World Bank who I thought would be a little more inspiring given his stellar resume. Instead he provided a litany of what life was like in 1908. And about half way through the speech Kumquat started kicking my bladder which made the speech and event feel even longer.

In the meantime Carlos has been working away on the house. We chose house colors - but unfortunately the green machine was sacrificed even further as a quick braking for a police sighting caused a paint can to tip over and re-decorate the interior of the car....The scaffolding was taken down from the front so we can now enjoy the pretty colors. The neighbors can also enjoy the new view, but they don't seem to enjoy anything but calling the police to complain about us. One neighbor yelled "compadre, shut up! stop making noise!" (which is tough on a construction sight) and another menacingly asked the workers for their "papers." Of course Carlos isn't their compadre and he let them know that (with a few expletives)....The lovely lady next door re-hired her lawyer and served us with a letter saying that we owed $5,000 for the fact that her chimney MIGHT NOT draft correctly because our house is bigger than it was when first built in the 1860s...

Here are some pictures of the house, the flowers Carlos gave me for graduation and my BIG belly.

BABY FOOD & BABY SHOWER

I was under the illusion that baby food was tasty. But it really really isn't!

We had a fun baby shower with a pink unicorn pinata, decorating onesies and baby food taste-testing. The good thing about baby food is the variety: macaroni and cheese, chicken and vegetables, pasta primavera, sweet potatoes, peas and brown rice.....The bad thing about baby food is that it all seems to be cardboard with flavoring or worse!
Despite the baby food the baby shower was a lot of fun. We had other tasty food (cupcakes with blue icing :)); original designs for onesies and cute presents! We got some very cute outfits and great books! It's amazing that some of my favorite stories from growing up are still out there - like Good Night Moon (though we hear that they had to remove the ash tray!) and Pat the Bunny and all the Richard Scarry stories!














As a present to ourselves we rented a fetal doppler so that we could hear the baby's heartbeat. Unfortunately you can't because I can't figure out how to attach the recording we made!!