Cake and babies | 27 March 2008

I went out for dinner with my three best friends from school, one of whom is visiting from six-hours-north with her new baby boy. Our server was a girl we’ve known since kindergarten, so when N. and B. ordered dessert, she wrote their names on their plates in chocolate sauce.

We went to the new mom’s shower on the weekend, where I held an infant for the first time in years, wobbly head and all, and after some initial noises of displeasure, he settled ambivalently on my lap, face out, gripping one of my fingers in his hand.

My sister is pregnant and due remarkably soon, in June, and one of the above-mentioned friends’ sister is due this spring. And a colleague on her maternity leave visited today and told us about her triplets sleeping twelve straight hours every night. The babies are everywhere.

P.S. And I have a new cousin, Nette, born today in the Netherlands! (1 April 2008)

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