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Check out the "Photos" link at the top of this page for some pics from our first two baby showers. They were both great!

You see a cow every day.

This is too weird. This morning I was listening to the radio, and one of the DJs made the claim that you see a cow every day. He said it could be a real cow or a picture of a cow, but you will definitely see one.

I thought this was ridiculous -- where, I thought, would I see a cow today? The DJ was still talking about it and I was still being incredulous when I turned a corner and saw a pink flying cartoon cow holding a cell phone on the side of a Red Bull van. Perfect timing.

So, did you see a cow today?

Entrepreneurial spirit crushed!

So last Saturday our neighborhood, Sarah's Creek, held a neighborhood-wide garage sale. The idea was that the homeowner's association would pay to advertise it, and all we had to do was drag our junk out into the driveway and sell it to suckers... er, passersby.

Weeks ago, a lady who has lived around here for a while gave us the low-down: "The way you really make money," she said, "isn't by selling your junk. See, it'll be scorching out, so everyone will be really thirsty, so you can clean up selling Cokes and water to all the thirsty customers."

We took this tip to heart, and a few days before the garage sale, we bought 9 twelve-packs of various sodas from HEB, along with a couple of pallets of bottled water. Here's what our fridge looked like the night before the big day:

We also made a poster advertising our drinks, just 50 cents each. On Saturday morning we taped that poster to the fence, set up a couple of card tables with some stuff that we wanted to sell, filled two ice chests with Cokes, and waited for the money to roll in.

Now, you have to understand, we thought we were in on some kind of big secret. We thought we were masterminds of the highest calibre. Turns out, no. Everybody was selling drinks. And they all had a lot more merchandise sitting out to draw people in. I think we sold about 10 drinks total in 3 hours, leaving a mere 134 to awkwardly fill our refrigerator. Sheesh.

Well, lesson learned: If you have a clever scheme to make a little money, save yourself some time and energy by scrapping the whole idea and sleeping in.

This is probably just the tip of the iceburg...

Babies are supposedly pretty small. I'm no expert, but from what I've seen, they start out about football-sized and grow from there. However, people whose opinions I respect keep warning us about how much space they take up. "You'll need plenty of room for all of the baby's stuff," they say.

What stuff? I'm imagining standing in the delivery room, and the doctor catches a healthy pink baby wearing a plaid suit and pulling a suitcase along behind.

This reminds me of a Friends episode. Rachel's been roomming with Joey, but she's about to have a baby. She's planning to move out because, "There's no room here for a baby." Joey looks astonished -- "No room??" he says, gesturing to a chair: "We could put it here!" This is pretty much how I fealt until recently, but reality is starting to kick in.

Kidding aside, this baby is going to have a lot of stuff, including a crib, changing table, glider rocker(s), travel system (a stroller and car seat + base), play pen, high chair, bath... thingy, and a couple dozen of the softest stuffed animals you've ever seen.

So, to prepare for the onslaught, we bought a car last week. It's a 2002 Mazda 626. It has 4 doors and looks sort of like this:

We bought from a private seller who took really good care of it, so it feels a lot like a new car. And it has a big trunk for the "travel system," etc :-) We're really happy with it so far!

Baby Cam

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