OK, I just uploaded some new pictures of Michelle from today.  We’re in the middle of week 38 with only 20 days to go.  You can also see the lavendar gingham drapes that were just put up today in the nursery… And don’t leave too soon – you may be able to catch a surprise ending on the page with Michelle’s pictures.

 Jon Q

So, I forgot to mention that my work threw me a baby shower on Wed. It was very sweet – and very pink, with balloons, flowers and a white-and-pink cake. Sesame got a lot of cute things, including a (pink) Stanford sweatshirt for when she’s older. A day earlier, my friends on the vanpool (on which I ride two days a week) also threw me a little party. It’s unlikely I’ll be able to take the van when Sesame is born and I return to work, and – after riding w/ some of these people for the past five years – I was sad to have to say farewell. (I should note here that I clearly take after my father, the most sentimental person I know. A classic family story is when he made my seven-year-old sister sad by suggesting she say good-bye to her bedroom when they moved from our old house in Milwaukee. Her bedroom! That’s just too cute.)

I’m heading back to work in late Feb., but I still feel sad saying good-bye to work and all my friends there. (My last day is next Friday.) I work w/ some wonderful people, and it will be weird not seeing them on a daily basis. I mentioned at my shower that I’ll miss everyone when I’m away, and my co-worker Amy (who had a baby a year ago) commented, “No you won’t.” She speaks from experience – and I know I won’t be thinking of much aside from Sesame when she actually arrives… But, for now, in Larry-like fashion, I feel a little sad about my upcoming last day.

-M