No, not again. :)
It's just that I meant to post this picture, oh about four months ago. Finally getting around to it now.
This was taken on February 9th, so I was almost exactly 8 months pregnant. Thanks for Chiaroscuro for taking my pregnancy pictures!
Back to the present, here is a picture of Lucas playing with the fish mobile. I can't believe he's still entertained by this, but he really is. Today he was practically cavorting with joy.
And now, I really must go to bed. It's almost 12:30 am and I've been up processing pictures for an hour and a half. Lucas is alseep (after over an hour of trying to get him to sleep) and I think I was a bit drunk on the freedom.
Oh! But before I go, there's an actual reason I should be drunk! Or well, hm, maybe just celebratory, you know, considering I am still breastfeeding Lucas, and although I'll bet he would have gone right to sleep if I had tipped back a few beers tonight, I still err on the side of caution with him. Only one beer tonight.
Anyway, the reason - my bosses got the funding they applied for, which means - I get to keep my job! I mean, I was literally on the verge of getting cut off. But my boss called me at home today to tell me, and I have been elated ever since.
(I've been so stressed out about this that when my lab manager IM'd me to tell me that my boss was about to call me, but then she wouldn't tell me why he was calling, I got all freaked out and imagined he must be calling about something bad. I didn't know what I might have done, but I immediately starting thinking of all the ways I might have messed up badly enough that he needed to call me at home. Fortunately, he called right away so I didn't have time to fret about it for too long. I answered tentatively, feeling a little weird about knowing that he was going to call and it must have been obvious because he asked if I was ok. Sure, I said, as breezily as I could. And then he told me the news, and I felt like the biggest idiot for assuming the worst. Well, then I got all giddy, and I've had this weird half-smile on my face ever since.)
Anyway, now I really must go to bed. Lucas has started waking up around 5 am and this morning he was too awake and joyful with life to go back to sleep after that (it was very cute), so I'd better prepare myself for an early morning.
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