A Boy.

This news is coming quite quite late, but we’re having a boy.

Come December, Nya will have a little brother! Tamika and I have been very very excited about the whole thing, but with all of the other craziness going on (the car, Tamika staying at home, the American economy deflating like a 2-week old balloon animal) I just haven’t had time to write about it.

He’s very healthy, and as Tamika will attest, it’s a very different pregnancy from Nya’s. Staying home helps a lot too, I think, and is allowing Tamika to “nest” a little more (read that in a pregnancy book for guys that my friend Chris Beard gave to me).

Tamika is going in for another sonogram soon, so I’ll post up pictures as soon as I have them.

Nya is doing great too! She’s standing up and edging around furniture. She hasn’t quite take her first step though, but if she’s not thinking about it, she can stand on her own for about 3 seconds (though as soon as she realizes she’s standing up, she sits down). She crawls and scoots her way all over the place, which has caused us to be a lot more thoughtful about picking things up! She also enjoys talking, clapping her hands, impersonating Popeye the Sailor, banging wooden spoons on over turned pots, and climbing stairs.
Yes, climbing stairs. Thankfully, Connie Molitor, an former coworker of ours, gave us a set of wooden gates for the stairs. However, because Nya is so small, she actually fits under the gate that leads upstairs. We turn around, and there she is, halfway up the stairs clapping her hands and smiling. We shoved a bolster pillow underneath the gate in the meantime, and occasionally allow her peak-scaling activities by following her up.

She hasn’t quite learned any words yet, but she’s close. She does say Bubba (for Bottle), and has a vocabulary of other sounds she likes to make. Ummm (like she’s about to say something), Abu, and Goyim-goyim-goyim are some of her favourites.

More later!