Calm before the storm: 32 weeks, 2 days in utero

Pui's belly is getting bigger by the hour. She's having some trouble sleeping, and climbing stairs is getting tiring. I love this picture: you can see pretty well how much Pat is making Pui bulge, but it really is more impressive in 3-D. I like being able to see and feel Pat move - he's an active little guy in there!

The last few days have been busy, but not without some fun. On Tuesday Pui and I had an early dinner with Helen and Valerie and played some Mah Jong. We had a great time, and it was great to spend some time with Helen and Valerie again: Helen used to be my neighbor, and Valerie lives right behind Helen. Before I moved to Thailand I used to play Mah Jong with them every week. Wednesday we were busy with various preparations and maintenance tasks: I helped move furniture around and learned how to clean electro-static filters: woohoo! Today we had lunch with my cousin and her family: she has two little boys that are very cute and friendly. My cousin and her husband clearly do a good job parenting - Pui and I were all but writing notes the entire time. Then this evening I went back to Helen's for more Mah Jong while Pui called back to Thailand on Skype. I had a lot of fun, and I think Pui did also.

Tomorrow my Mom is going to host a couple of little girls for a sleep-over. For her church auction, she auctioned off two overnight baby-sitting jobs. I have never met the little girls that are coming, but apparently they are both very very cute and very very energetic. There is going to be a little girl storm here starting tomorrow, and we are busy battening down the hatches (thus some of the re-arrangement of furniture). They arrive Friday afternoon, and on Saturday we (the host, the girls, Mom, and I) are going to go sledding in the mountains - another auction prize, this time one Mom bought. We are hoping that we'll survive the car trip up to the mountains in good enough shape to let the girls burn all their energy sledding. We'll have more adults than kids so hopefully we can tag-team - but I expect that in ten minutes we will be gasping for breath on the slopes while the girls run tireless circles around us. We'll see...