There are many many things continuing to go on around here now that we are in the midst of the month of madness. After a significant setback Tony now has the baby's room just about painted ( a few touch-ups are needed). It's amazing how much work had to go into painting one wall! Crib and dresser/changing table should be arriving any day now. If you were to ask either one of us if we are ready, the answer would probably be a resounding NO, but we're ready to be ready, I think.

Mom is doing great! She had her staples out yesterday and received kudos from the nurse for taking good care of her incision. The only cancer found by the pathologist was on an area less than an inch in size on a single fibroid. She figures that the cancer was just a fluke. I think that she had an incredible medical team and applaud their persistance.

Iffy the goat had 3 kids last week. This is her first litter of triplets and they are all boys. Dad was a bit disappointed at first, Iffy is now 1:8 in her female to male ratio, but he says that they are all really cute. It also gave him a reason to come up with names that do not start with X. Apparently there is a goat tradition that all of the kids born in a given year have names that start with a certain letter. They skip Q, but not X.

I went to the doctor yesterday and he feels that the pois is growing a bit ahead of schedule, so I'm going in for another ultrasound this morning to make certain that we don't need to move up my due date by too much. I'm still hoping to not know what gender the baby is, but given that Pois should weigh close to 4 pounds now, that might be impossible. Then again, there's still tons of activity so there may not be any sitting still at all. On Tuesday, Pois learned how to drum on my bladder. Tony thinks that this may be mimicry of typing sounds.

Amanda, our sister-in-law, will be having her baby any day now. She had false labor yesterday, but it sounds like McKenna is raring to go. Seth and Amanda's older daughter, Morgynn, is really excited and looking forward to her little sister. I imagine that Amanda is just ready to be done.

Finally, we have all the fixings for a new kitchen from IKEA sitting at my parents' house. We just have to figure out how to get it here. Tony's hoping to get everything set before Pois comes, but we'll just have wait and see. It would be great to have a dishwasher once the baby is here. Speaking of which, there are dishes just waiting to be washed right now.