Kevin: Com’on guys, it’s bedtime.

(Alex and Ana start heading down the hallway towards their bedroom.)

Ana: (calls back over her shoulder) Daddy, can you read a story?

Kevin: It’s too late. You need to go straight to bed.

Ana: Daddy, can you read a story?

Alex: Dad said it’s too late.

Ana: (ignores Alex) Daddy, can you read a story?

Alex: He said it’s too late.

Ana: I can’t hear him!

Alex: Ana, I’m serious!

Ana: Daaaaaddy!!! Can you read a story?????

Kevin: Okay, Ana, I’ll read one chapter.

Ana: Thank you, Daddy.

Me: You’re all melty.

Kevin: How can I deny my princess 8 pages of Junie B.?

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The Associated Press obituary is positively poetic. (Via Publishers Weekly.)

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To Do List:

1. Pack for hospital, including admittance paperwork.
2. Finish remodeling the nursery and move all furniture back in.
3. Wash and put away all 0-3 month baby clothes.
4. Buy car seat and two bases.
5. Early bird registration for Alex’s after school care and Ana’s preschool.
6. Bring home all work stuff I’ll need during my leave.
7. Miscellaneous other work projects.

Things we just crossed off the list:

1. Buy size 1 diapers.
2. Test the breast pump to see if it still works.
3. Take Ana on a tour of the preschool she’ll be attending in the fall.
4. Talk to kids about baby proofing the living room.

In addition to the baby proofing talk, we also cleaned the entire living room. It took all four of us over an hour, maybe almost two, to pick up and put away every piece of kid debris off the sofa and the floor so that we could vacuum without sucking up something that would break the machine. I did not take before/after photos because it would scare childless folks into never having kids.

I just finished reading Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, by Beth Lisick. I almost didn’t make it past the first chapter because I found her writing lacking compared to some of the bloggers I read daily. Plus I didn’t like her personality. By the end of her year-long odyssey, I felt like I could almost enjoy her as a casual acquaintance, but her relentless cynicism would probably keep us from becoming close friends.

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Yesterday I finally opened The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl and ended up inhaling it in one sitting. It was a fun read. The reason I was home wasn’t so fun though. I woke up feeling awful, tried to drive to work, almost passed out on the way there, and barely got myself home before blacking out on the sofa. I didn’t wake up until 2pm!!!

3 days of sleeplessness + horrid back pain + killer allergies + taking pills on an empty stomach + pregnancy in the 3rd trimester = wanting to barf and black out

I was already planning on taking tomorrow off, but I guess my body couldn’t wait 2 days. Today I’m completely back to normal though, knock on wood.

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