Geez kid, are you taking up enough room yet?!

So, I've been getting rather harassing emails asking to see just how huge I am getting - well, here you go folks! Be careful what you ask for! (Since we don't have a full length mirror, seeing this pic was a bit of a shock to me, actually!)

I am using the defense that with the heat wave I am retaining a lot of water, which while true, is a bit of a stretch in explaining why it looks like I'm about to give birth to a small whale. ;) Ah, but we're both healthy and everything, so I sure won't complain.
(12 days...tick,tick, tick... )

A new member of my 'family'!

Congrats and swift recovery wishes go out to my friend Charmaine who gave birth last week to Ainslee Kaede! Another source of estrogen for the O'Coffey house, along with big sisters Raelee, Araceli & Denali. I wish I'd seen that middle name, which means 'Maple Leaf', sooner - I might have stolen it for our bumpkin as a nod to the "Home Land". Guess we'll have to settle with 'Telkwa' now - good for a boy or girl, dontcha think?!

Tick Wisdom

"Everybody was a baby once. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once... Babies, chum! Tiny dimpled fleshy little mirrors of our us-ness...that we parents hurl into the future like leathery footballs of hope. And you gotta get a good spiral on that baby or evil will make an interception.
Ready?
One, three, thirteen, twenty-six, hike!
Go deep! Go deeper!
~The Tick (cartoon superhero)

PS - 22 days & counting...only 4 shifts of work left...down to only a half-billion things on the to-do list. :)