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Kid #2 In The Works

Kai will have a new brother or sister on or about August 19. This ultrasound picture was taken last week - the little bugger is currently about 2½" long. Kai is excited. He’s expressed his preference for a brother, and he always refers to it as “my baby.” For example, yesterday Kai volunteered to mop the kitchen floor (his latest thing is cleaning) and he said, “when my baby comes, I’m going to teach it how to mop.” But poor Kai has no idea what he’s in for: after the baby is born, he’s going to discover that he is not, in fact, the center of the universe. As with all older siblings though, I’m sure he’ll adjust.

Unfortunately, Maria has been having a terrible time. She’s had “morning sickness” 24/7 since Christmas. Her pregnancy with Kai was relatively easy, so she wasn’t expecting to feel this way. As she put it, “I feel hungry, nauseous, and bloated, all at the same time.” I consider the suffering many women go through during pregnancy as Exhibit A in the argument against Intelligent Design (that’s the 21st century marketing catch-phrase for Creationism). No compassionate higher power would deliberately intend the creation of life to be such a miserable experience. Anyway, Maria’s started to feel better over the past week, so hopefully that means she’s past the worst of it.

We’ve decided to not give a lot of thought to names until we find out whether it’s a boy or a girl (in 2 or 3 months). But if you have any names you’d like to nominate for consideration, please feel free to send them my way. We have one rule though: the first name must be a Japanese name. But the middle name can be anything, so if you’re not up on Japanese baby names, feel free to send a suggestion for a middle name.