This Baby Is Go For Launch In 3…2…Onesie.

Well, hello! friends and strangers Googling Journey lyrics, 10 Things I Hate About You quotes, and wondering what ever happened to He-Man and She-Ra.

(Aside to the latter group: I know we don’t know each other, and some of you might even think Sarah Palin is totally awesome, but political insanity notwithstanding, I have a good feeling about you. Feel free to pull up an Internet ottoman and stay awhile.)

I just realized had I waited one more week to write and hit that cheery blue “Publish” button, I could have let an entire month pass before updating this here site, which I think would be a personal abandonment record for me. Alas, here I am, because I missed you all too much. (Awwwh.)

Oh, and I’m not having a baby, in case you thought you had missed some big important (immaculate conception-type) news.

My sister is the (mighty adorable) one currently carrying her very own fun-size human, and while I heartily concur pregnancy is beautiful and life-changing and Merriam and Webster really didn’t provide me ample amounts of words to convey how extremely psyched I am to be an aunt, can I just tell you how surreal it is to see your little sister in her third trimester, because: Whoa amounts of surreal over here.

Theresa of course looks amazing, as you will very soon get to see for yourself because I (‘m a visual learner, yes! and) took five bazillion pictures over Memorial Day weekend as we showered her and my soon-to-be-onesie-wearing niece or nephew with myriad tiny and sweet and maybe-not-so-gender-neutral baby things.

The general guessing consensus is that Theresa and Will will be welcoming a bouncing baby boy on or around July 18th, which is a consensus based on pure conjecture and gut feelings which could end up being less “hunch” more “too much spicy Thai peanut sauce.” I will undoubtedly be all sorts of ecstatic to announce I have a niece OR a nephew, and will forever maintain the “Handsome” onesie I WAS TRICKED into buying–itself being the center onesie in a pack of an otherwise neutral set of three, and me thus assuming it to be white and only white–will only be all the more entertaining if worn by a little girl.

As you read this I will be lounging in a window seat at 30,000 feet, on my way to Minneapolis to spend nine! days with my one and only and aforementioned sister. I will also hopefully be napping as it’s become nearly impossible for me to sleep before an early morning flight, my brain preferring instead to waltz from one unrealistic flight-missing-scenario to another.

I would promise to update my site while I’m gone, but we all know I’d probably be lying. But hey, you never know; maybe Minneapolis comes complete with bonus blog posting mojo!

Until then, here’s a sampling of some of my favorite pictures from the most recent Baby Shower Extravaganza(s):

T & Momma:

Behold, the best guest book idea in the history of guest book ideas: The fingerprint tree!

Will and T’s newest niece:

On Saturday night T and I made what would be my favorite decorative addition to Sunday’s shower. Poms!

These three have been best friends since junior high, bridesmaids and maids of honor in each other’s weddings, and are now all moms, too:

Theresa, our great aunt Joy, and Grandma Ladish. Three of the loveliest souls you’ll ever meet:

The entire Flickr set is here. I named it Nobody Puts (My Sister’s) Baby In A Corner. (Guess which movie I watched recently.)

Catch you on the flip-side, kids!