A Bit of Family News

Well, the Perry family is in for some happy changes.

You can see that Mini-Mike (aka, Baby Alpha) is very excited about the impending arrival of Baby Beta (appropriate nickname to be assigned later). After our first successful checkup, we took him out to Fuddrucker’s for dinner and gave him a new shirt.

Of course we, as nerds, can’t do anything the easy way, and we made him read the whole thing himself instead of just telling him what it said. But, Mini-Mike, at four years old, can figure out most words after a little try, and he got it! (The first part was obviously very easy, but, ‘brother’ gave him a slight pause.) Once he figured it out, he was tickled.

After we got home and I laid down on the couch, he brought me a blanket and offered to rub my legs (one of the many reasons I adoringly call him Mini-Mike, I am one well looked-after lady in my house).

I like reading the quick summaries of Baby Beta’s development over here on Baby Gaga. They’ve got a week by week rundown, complete with size and developmental milestones and amusing comics about the trials of pregnancy. They also do those little timelines that you can add to your forum signatures or website.

Of course, being the dork that you all so appreciate, I have a LabPixies widget on my Google Homepage telling me how far along I am, and how many days I have to go.

We’re obviously going to be very busy getting things ready for our new arrival. Mike will be painting the nursery soon (it’s currently a hideous orange color with a red stripe all around). My big Sister says that she’ll come help by painting the images on the walls that I’d intended to do (but, no paint fumes for Baby Beta!). Mini-Mike has a fish mural in his bedroom, so we’d like to do some sort of dry land animals for this room so that it won’t be boring in comparison. Of course, you can’t forget all of the baby supplies. We’ll be digging out all of Baby Alpha’s old things and seeing what we still need or what we would like to replace.

We won’t be forgetting about technology anytime soon, but, we will keep you up to date with Alpha and Beta, who are obviously the centers of our universe.