Not too much to report. Amy is doing fine, but baby doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. It’s certainly cramped in there at this point – it’s clear that the baby tries to stretch out and pokes and prods Amy’s belly so hard that you can see/feel a foot/heel at times. We’re getting used to the fact that the baby is going to take its sweet time. My next task is implementing a countup script to replace the countdown clock at the top of the blog tomorrow.

So, we have TWO days left until the due date. But, we have a feeling that ‘b-day’ may come and go. Gotta get used to the idea of an April baby, I guess! Amy’s visit to her doctor today went smoothly. Baby is fine, but very little to report otherwise. We’ll see our main doctor next Wednesday, which will be six days after the due date. We’ll probably have a better idea of what’s up at that point. But then again, we might have the baby this weekend (which would be great, ’cause Amy’s doctor is on-call)!

It’s raining cats and dogs in Atlanta this weekend, so Amy and I spent our time mostly indoors making sure everything is just so in the Baby’s room. As I mentioned earlier, we had a set of nine photographs of mine taken at the Atlanta Zoo framed in groups of three for the room, and we spent Saturday afternoon hanging them. It looks great, IIMSSM (if I may say so myself!). Amy has managed to get in a few long walks between storms, and we hope this helps the baby decide ‘now is the time!’

We are getting very close, people! Amy is still doing fine. No sign yet that this little one wants to arrive anytime soon, though. I had a dream that the baby was hugging me around the neck last night. And sister-in-law Abi called to say that she dreamt someone was having a baby (looked like Amy) and the baby was laughing. She thinks today is the day. I don’t know that the baby agrees, however! Pictured at right is Amy’s belly on Thursday.

And since the baby hasn’t arrived, Amy and I took advantage of the delay and went to the Atlanta Symphony Friday night. First, right across the street from the Woodruff we checked out Shout, one of Tom Catherall’s string of succesful ‘see and be seen’ restaurants around town. Woah, nelly! The place had throbbing house music, pappadum flatbreads, sushi, and a nice tagine. Yummy. Our dear friend Laura Najarian was subbing for one of the basoonists with the ASO, and it was great to see her onstage performing Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso (1905), Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K.543 (1788), and then the amazing Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky. This may have been one of our last outings to a venue like this for a while, so we made the most of it, getting snacks and drinks with Laura post-show at the nearby South City Kitchen, watching all the hipsters arrive on Cresent Ave. for an evening of drinking, etc. Heading back to Shout to get our car, it was a whole new variety of people watching as the urban crowd filled the restaurant to overflowing. Most entertaining.