here's week 30 for all interested parties - recognize the sweater? :) (the blue shirt underneath is from julie, marie and kimie)
..and these are a few gifts i received in prep for baby (i was taking these pics on timer by myself, so had a hard time showing everything in one shot! hope you can see them all):
organic nursing pillow from marie, gown and bonnet from mom and papa, stuffed teething bear from mari (kimie's ASIJ NK buddy who i visited the other day), and handmade baby carrier "sling" from my friend yuko. I feel prepared already!! :)
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--Aunt Julie
yup - eight more weeks til the big day! am hoping the ground stops getting frost soon so i can get out in the garden and sow some seeds before the time comes...
i also have one last translation job to wrap up...we'll see if i can get that done before the big day!
Also.. start preparing to slow down in the 7 week window, things start getting uncomfortable... so I've been told.
We're all so excited over here! Can't wait to meet our nephew or niece!
Maria and I are still putting our package together. It should be finalized this weekend, so we'll pack it up and take it to the post sometime over the weekend.
Love,
-Jon
but actually, we've had 12 years of "doing stuff alone together" so it's about time we had some distraction, wouldn't you say? :)
there's a shojin-ryori-ya (buddhist-based veg. food restaurant) that we're hoping to go to in tokyo with some friends, but we'll see...we saw Sweeny Todd in the theater the other day...light years away for something we'd want our future child to see, so good thing we saw it now!! :)
i have a small translation project coming up that's sure to get in the way of this last bit of freedom, but i'm really hoping to have enough time to finish papering our bedroom walls with washi, sowing seeds in the garden, filling the kunugi logs with shiitake spores and maybe dyeing a few baby kimono with onion skins i've been saving up for the purpose...!! yikes!