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Does the baby not like Tori Amos? Concerts Continue, Week 26

Finally!

I’ve been waiting for a kick from my daughter seemingly forever now.  She’d kick, I’d put my hand where it was, and she’d stop.  She seems to be a very contrary baby!

Last night Jolene went to a Tori Amos concert in Detroit, about two hours away.  After she got back late last night, we started dozing off to sleep at the late hour of 2:30AM.

Suddenly, we felt a ‘thud’.  She was up, kicking, and had miraculously kicked the exact location my hand was in.  Finally!  I was half asleep, but it was sudden and obvious what happened.  We waited for a second one, and she delivered yet another to me.

She must’ve missed me, or didn’t like Tori Amos or something.

More Music

The night previous to this, Jolene and I and some of her friends from work all went to go see Lacuna Coil again:

We had all seen them previously as an opener to Disturbed, but everyone in the group felt that they didn’t play nearly long enough.  We got our full dose of Lacuna Coil Friday, as they played a regular length set.  The opening bands were local groups that were pretty good as well.  As you can see in the pictures, it was a small club event and not a large stadium event like the Disturbed concert.  This is a good thing – you get much closer to the artists and see how they really are.

It was a great concert.

We’re going to our last scheduled concert this Tuesday – another Decemberists concert.  I missed the last one, and so I just had to get tickets.  I’m looking forward to it very much!

Week 26

No more fruits or vegetables – I am having a harder and harder time finding posts about fetal development that deal in the metrics of fruits and veggies.

However, this week she’s developing eyebrows and fingernails and the like.  Also, some hair might be starting to grow on her head.  More importantly, her blue eyes are opening.  They’re blue because all infants eyes are blue at this time, not having a chance for the pigments to take hold yet.  She can see around her now, and knows when it’s dark and when it’s light.  Now she truly knows her mother likes to stay up too late at night!

Everything else is going well, we excised the desks from our house and I have built a new desk to make room for the chair that we’re going to be using a lot in the next few months

It was quite a project.  When I originally put it together, it was far too tall for use as a computer desk.  I would’ve had to sit on phone books or something to get high enough to use the computer.  In the end, I had to jigsaw off the bottom ‘kick plate’ area of the cabinets.  It all came together nicely in the end.