Yes, it is true.  It is true that with the next statement I will jinx it and the baby will pop out in like 5 minutes.  But, yes, it is true that We have now made it 72 hours longer than Friday.  

 

Something I forgot to mention about Friday.  As many of you know, when a woman gets pregnant, her blood volume increases by some substantial percentage.  I couldn’t tell you what that percentage is, and I don’t even want to really speculate.  BUT, I do know that it is enough to shoot about 5 feet across the room when you try to get an IV.  I am not a big needle fan.  Don’t like the ones that look like they are big enough to hang pictures on the wall.  When I looked back in the room (after stepping out of the room) and there was a 4 foot by 1 inch line of the life giving circulatory fluid on the floor, and heard the nurse say “oops, hit an artery,” despite it being a “joke,”  I realized I might not be as much of a man as I thought.  Yucky yuck yuck.  And then yuck.  

 

Kim is on day 5 of bedrest, and is about 40% of the way towards total insanity. I just looked at my lovely wife sitting next to me on the couch, and she had her hand curled such that the middle finger was pulled behind her thumb.   She then said, dead seriously, “can I flick you?  I really want to flick you.”  To which I responded in the affirmative, as that is my job.  

 

For those of you looking to score big points, the bar has been set high.  Last night Mr. and Mrs. Henry Patch scooted on over here with not one, not two, but THREE separate dishes that probably will make up 6-7 meals.  Our greatest thanks to them.  Otherwise we were having whatever came in cans and frozen boxes, as I would have had to make it.  

 

So for the update on the baby, it is still in there.  Its still boxing the inside of Kim, and there are still some contractions.  It gives her something to do all day.  To wait, wait, wait,   THERE’S ONE!  Not in a good way, of course.  Then she documents, and probably watches days of our lives and checks her email, then about 45 minutes or 20 minutes or 100 minutes later they’ll be another one.  As long as there aren’t 4 in an hour, then we are good to go.  And every day we are good to go, the little Anderson bun gets more and more towards being fully cooked. Internal cooking is better than external cooking, from what I can tell.