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Stumpy

It's OFF! Yesterday, Penelope's umbilical cord stump fell off. It was, of course, anti-climactic. Katie found it floating in her onesie. There are still a few bits of it stuck in her belly button, but the big chunk is gone. It kind of looks like jerky. Surprisingly, there was no odor, despite the doctor's warning that it would stink before it fell off. Now comes the debate about saving it or not. I'm for saving, mostly to see what happens to it, but Katie is not a huge fan of keeping a rotten piece of flesh around.

Baby room

It was a big weekend for us for getting ready for the baby.  Up until now, we hadn't really done much.  We had a car seat, but that's about it.  And the big items, a crib and changing table, we are getting from friends in June.  So the baby room had been looking very empty and sad since we moved in here.  But not any more!  Yesterday we went to IKEA (complete with Swedish meatball dinner, of course).  As usual, we spent about 3 hours there, but it was very successful.  We bought a small bookcase, a funky set of drawer

First post

After years of having an outdated website that I threw together myself with PHP, I decided to join the modern era and transfer my website over to Drupal, an open-source content management system.  I've also decided to take a crack at blogging.  Mainly, I think this will be a way to keep track of interesting things that my soon-to-be-born daughter does.  Kind of like an online journal of interesting baby things.  Or, who knows, maybe I'll write about other stuff.  Or, most likely, I'll write about nothing.  Only time will tel

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

When: 
February 26, 2010

We went up to Vancouver, BC for the 2010 Winter Olympics. We saw the Speed Skating Team Pursuit qualifying races for men and women.


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