I have got 8 weeks to go and I have to say, for someone who was freaked out for years about the idea of having a baby, I feel cool as a cuke. Maybe it's that calm period while the log flume is gently bobbing along and slowly kank-kank-kanking its way up the incline. You know what's coming -- you got on the ride in the first place, didn't you? So you just sit back and enjoy the ride as best you can.

It is SO cool to feel the baby wiggling around inside though. She has one foot, the kicky foot, that often pokes out of my side and when I press on it, it drives the foot wild. Apart from that, I don't know what's what in there. In some ways I wish she would just stay in there, my own private pet, easy to feed, goes anywhere, not much of a bother. But I suppose eventually she would get way too big for me to handle from the inside.