Ha Ha

(Less funny when you are the one inside the shirt)

Still in Utero

This guy does not want to be the one to break familial tradition and arrive on our before his due date. Still comfortably nested inside, hoping to go trick or treating within the warm amniotic fluid instead of outside. I am now getting desperate enough to put credence in internet factoids like this:

You're 14 percent more likely to give birth on a Tuesday than on any other day of the week — and least likely to deliver on the weekend.

Due Date

I am so tired of due dates and their anticlimactic roles in our family's history. Vivian had to be induced at 42 full weeks of gestation and Seth made his appearance five days late. So, what was I thinking when we circled this arbitrary date on our family calendars? Nonetheless, I am attempting to focus on the positives here, namely these two:

Uh huh

I could pretend that this picture is a result of Halloween preparations, but, let's be honest, this is par for the course on any old day around here.

Playing Hooky

Place: Viv's bed
Time: 1407 Central European Time.

Shh, don't tell his boss.

Loving a Pumpkin

This October, my family has been loving a human pumpkin: