Umby Takes Leave

It's time to get my nose back on the blogstone, so to speak. Here's a picture of my baby:

Recent developments:

- The baby is HUGE -- 9 lbs., 1 oz. as of a few days ago. She's in the 99th percentile for weight and 97th for length. A coworker brought her one-month-old baby to work yesterday. Troll Baby (coworker's child) is significantly smaller than Wren. I'm trying not have excessive pride, but it's difficult when your baby is the biggest in L.A. County (putting her high in the runnings for biggest world-wide).

- The umbilical stump is about to detach. That means the baby can get baths soon. Which means that we can finally get that old shell off her. (The baby has been molting.)

- I'm back to work.

- Folks from church have been bringing us meals every other day since the baby was born. It's been amazing -- two days ago we had home-made chicken and dumplings.

- Have I mentioned that Wren is the next phase of human evolution? She's going to lead the armies against Homo sapiens. She can already lift her head up almost 90 degrees, unassisted.

That's all I've got for now. The baby keeps Baby and me busy, but she's been very good so far about only waking us up three or four times a night. My unbabied readers be advised: this is pretty good. Enjoy your sleep while you can.

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I was looking at archives of HOWDY MR. CORPORATE (not Mr. Nippon) last night. It's a good read. Check out Dave's recent-graduate angst.