fall-ing into place

fall has already settled in here, and it's 65F here today... im working on the laptop these days.. yup, the sturdy ol laptop we got from manu a hundred years ago.. its slow, and low on memory, and i always manage to hit typos and move the cursor inadvertently with the free-flying whisk of my left thumb on the touch pad & then using a dial-up conx... its not quick work is waht im trying to get at, but i guess its appropriate to take the long explanation for such a long process in the first place...! so until we figure out what we're going to do about a phone JACK in the OFFICE .. at least im connected. so here i am, now, what was i saying?

oh yeah. we are mostly moved in and unpacked now.. and our place is really starting to feel like ahome now, we got art on the walls, and the requisite 4 boxes whose contents we are unsure what to do with yet... and my dad and sister are coming for a visit next week (arriving tomorrow).

lucas is 16 months old, cuter than ever.. if you need proof, and are missing the pictures because we have been super pre-occupied.. then go see astrobleme where philippe loaded up a couple of youtube videos. i promise we'l get back to uploading those lucaspix soon.. and hope you understand that moving internationally with a 1-year-old, while pregnant just takes some time!

that said, heres the preggy updates: i am 23 weeks, due feb 5. and i am 36.5 inches around (93cm) so my belly now officially precedes my bosom now... and it;s a girl this time (yay fun!) i am having virtually NO preggy side effects... uh, except i go to bed early, hehee. and my literary side is acting up, where i get all interested in "catching up" and finishing a book in 3-5 days. just finished orwells 1984... pretty sad stuff! and augusten burroughs running with scissors i laughed out loud between stunned jaw drops.