39 weeks and counting

Lately Stacey has been saying how done she is being pregnant. Here are the latest pictures. We saw the doctor on Thursday and she said she expected Stacey to have the baby "in the next couple days". The due date is the 28th, but Stacey looks to be ahead of schedule. Evelyn will probably weigh 8 pounds.

Stacey has been having contractions for several weeks, but for the past couple weeks they have become more intense. A couple times they have happened every 10 or 15 minutes for a few hours, but then they stop. When she thought she was going to have the baby the night before 2 of my final exams I almost wet myself.

She likes to show off how hard her stomach gets when she's having a contraction. Her brothers all used to do sit-ups and show off their abs, and she says she feels like a body builder because her stomach is harder during a contraction than theirs ever were.

I'm happy to be done with classes, and during the holidays I'm working on some research (finally) until I get the phone call from Stacey to rush home. I'm trying to identify flaws in the nuclear reaction models of a particle physics simulator Vanderbilt has been developing; I know, I'm a nerd.

Shawn, our new convert, is doing great. He comes to church every week and his sign language is improving (he doesn't communicate very well). We got rid of the Ford Escort, and we wanted to sell the pickup but we haven't even been able to get $3000 out of it, so we're just holding on to it.