And some Bubba for your viewing pleasure

Finally, Gabe's braces photos!

Julia is "full term" today! An acquaintance of ours who was a few days ahead of her, also with her first baby, is going home from the hospital today with her new little boy. ~smile~ We've also learned in the past week or so of two other young women we know who are newly expecting. Congrats Sara, Joelle, and Bethany!

Julia is officially "full-term" in two days! I'm pretty confident that she won't be a mommy before next Thursday, though, because Pablo still has to finish his final exams. I'm still leaning towards right around the New Year but let's face it, it's nothing more than a wild guess. I'd love to be proven wrong!

We lost our camera battery but my dear husband splurged on a new one last night rather than making us keep looking so hopefully I will get pictures posted some time this weekend.

Now we just have to get this laptop down to a repair shop and back and I'll be a happy girlie!

I need to get some new Bubba pictures up, plus pictures of Gabe in his braces but they aren't on the computer yet, so you will have to settle for updates for now. Gabe looks adorable in braces (my completely unbiased opinion of course)...one of those kids that the moment he put them on he looked like they'd always been there. Bubba is making sure Julia doesn't forget about him/her for a second but I'm pretty certain that Bubba dropped yesterday. My prediction is that Julia will have a baby sometime between Dec. 16 and Jan. 4 and I'm actually leaning toward between Dec. 31 and Jan 4. Anyone else want in on the pool?

I just love the Early Reviewer's program from Library Thing! Here's the blurb about the newest book I just snagged: The How to Survive a Robot Uprising of Christmas: a dynamically illustrated, futuristic case for the scientific possibility that Santa Claus really exists.

We all know Santa Claus: fat, jolly, omniscient, swift. Lives in a nice home in the Arctic, with the missus and a pack of elves.

Well, forget what you know. Santa Claus is from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as it turns out, and he’s not as fat as he used to be. Here’s something else you didn’t know: he’s been dabbling in some futuristic technology, and has found myriad ways to make his job possible. How can Santa know who’s been naughty and nice? Simple: implant listening devices into your ornaments. How can he make it to every house Christmas Eve? That’s nothing a little cloning and some wormholes can’t solve. And he has plenty of other tactics: quantum entanglement, organ replacement, drug-induced hibernation, and unmanned aerial vehicles, to name just a few.

In this fantastically illustrated, affectionate, and hilarious book, Gregory Mone uses science and technology to overturn the assumption that Santa can’t be real. Drawing on the work of accomplished scientists and researchers, Mone gives us a whole new portrait of this remarkable man and the miracles he makes happen every year. With imaginative artwork and an eye-catching package, this book makes an outstanding Christmas gift for just about anyone.