The Creative Salad

Thank you to our loving and supportive friends and family who have written and called us over the last few days offering congratulations! We love hearing from you and have been thrilled with your response!

Our company left on Friday, so now we are trying to get back to each and every one of you (over 70 people!), so please be patient with us. As we wrote in our family email, we’re trying to spend as little time as possible on the computer/phone and doing email at this time in our lives. What can we say?! We have other things going on.

In the meantime, we wanted to send out an enormous thank you and let you know how much we appreciate your well-wishes!

We’re into the second trimester now, so it’s time to share our news: yep, we’re having a baby! Finally, the news you have all been waiting for. As you can imagine, David and I are thrilled!

We’re planning on having a natural, at-home birth (under the guidance of two fantastic, very experienced midwives), so we won’t know the gender until our little one arrives in late January/early February.

So, here’s what I have really been up to this summer: Growing our peanut. Taking naps. Watching my belly grow. Developing porn star boobs (and the corresponding constant backaches). Wearing maternity clothes (shopping for some in the above picture). Going for lots of walks. Craving kiwi fruit and string cheese. Researching baby names. Feeling our little one move around.

Bliss.

Where have we been? We’ve had house guests. Many, many house guests. Only one more this week and then that’s it for the rest of the summer.

Driving to the airport, we came to a complete standstill on the highway. Was it a serious accident? Construction? No, it turned out to be rubbernecking because of a photo op. Two car loads of tourists (who else could they be?!) who were in a minor fender bender, took turns posing for photographs with the very tall and distinguished local policeman in front of their cars. I’ve never seen anything like it.

We’re thinking about buying a digital camcorder and we’d appreciate any suggestions that you may have about brands, models, specs, etc. We’re primarily planning on taking videos to post on this website, but would like the option of making dvds for our families too (so the resolution would have to be fairly high). We are already fans of Canon and Sony digital cameras, but are open to just about anything compatible with our PC computers. Oh, and our budget is modest. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help!