T + 2 - Still no baby

If Baby Alloy doesn't arrive today or this weekend we have an appointment for induction at 8 AM Monday Morning.   This baby will be joining us soon one way or another.

-Sarah

T-0

No baby yet, but it's only 10 pm, so there are still two hours left for 10/10/12. Then we're into 10/11/12. Tick tock.

Samantha'a or Sa'amantha?

Names are a tricky business. Tell someone you want to name your kid Jodie, and they'll spin a yarn about how their high-school sweetheart dumped them for a Jodie and ruined prom. No offense to anyone named Jodie, of course. But you get the idea. So we've held off on telling anyone what we're going to name our little girl when she finally makes her appearance in the world. Which should be any day now. Just not yet. She's still firmly ensconsed in ye olde wombe. But back to the names. Since everyone asks, whatcha gonna name de baaaaaby? I found it expedient to provide an answer, which, by all accounts, works both to assuage the interest of the asker, and also it's quite a good name in its own right. We have a son named Samuel, so what could be better than a daughter named Samantha? "Sam, go get your sister Sam." "Sam, be nice to your brother Sam." Awesome, right? But, alas, Sarah has nixed two Sams - even if we Hawai'ian it up with an apostrophe. Which means you still don't know what we're going with. But that's okay. She'll show up soon enough.

This one goes to eleven!

Baby's due date is the 10th, but if she can wait till the next day, her birthday will be 10-11-12. How cool is that! We'll welcome her any day, of course, but hope she stays put at least until Sarah's mom arrives on Friday. Maybe once she's born she'll be really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and write pieces that are sort of in between those, like Mach pieces, really.

Round 2!

Welcome back! Here we go again, and this time, it's all about girl power! We're at T-8, so if you've got your scorecards at home in a drawer somewhere, put them back on the fridge and download the new Baby Alloy app. Ha ha, yeah right. But seriously, somebody should write us an app. Think about it. You have 8 days. The world was created in 6. Ready... steady... go!

Yes!

Samuel William Alloy was born on April 3, 2011 at 9 pounds and 21 inches.

No. T-0 and holding!

Today is the due date! We're eager for labor to start and excited to go to the hospital. I know there are people who want to deliver at home without drugs. I don't understand them, but I know they're there. There are also people who like to get dental surgery without anesthetics or washing their hands. C'est la vie. For us, three cheers for modern western medicine!