Tuesday, November 18, 2008

little tobago

as part of our second trip to Tobago we took a hiking tour of Little Tobago, a small island off the northeastern tip. A protected bird sanctuary, it was just an incredible place, isolated wild and beautiful.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

helen's rainbow


one of the advantages of being in Trinidad during rainy season is the incredible rainbows. A photo can't begin to do justice to this horizon-spanning double layered beauty, with a 3/4 moon trapped inside, but at least you can see how it springs right out of helen-pot-o-gold's head

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Yoko is a boy!!


Full confession time: I'm a huge liar, or at least a dissembler of the truth. For the six of you who read my I'm Pregnant post earlier in October, remember me writing that I was 51/49 for a boy? What rubbish! Yesterday when the ultrasound technician wielded her magic wand and revealed that the fetus did in fact have a 'piggy' (her word people, and she said it twice), I screamed and writhed and clapped with pleasure. Clearly the reaction of someone who had been hoping at minimum 75/25 for a boy. And Grey was pretty darn excited, too, but he had never hedged his bets publicly like I did. He quite openly dreaded being outnumbered in a house of women (as if they still won't be).

So Yoko is a boy baby. Helen Dekker decided a few weeks ago that the fetus is to be called Yoko, and that's been the in-house nickname. It's going nowhere near the birth certificate, but it's cute for now. Watch us call that poor child Yoko until he's ready to start school.

So that's the latest news. One of each and we're done adding to the population of the world.

Love from all of we.