… everywhere you look around here. Jody and Toby were kind enough to ask the Hinkle family to lend us the bassinet pictured here. Something like 9 kids in total have used it, including my niece and nephews Ali, Matt and Joe.
(29.5 weeks)
Joe also bought Spellbound baby a cute turtle that plays Calypso music and the board book Goodnight Gorilla, which we've been reading to the little one. As you can see above, our little one is getting big — 14-15 inches and somewhere around 3 pounds. It's hard to believe there is 14 inches of baby within me.
Right now the bassinet has been sitting in our living room. Tonight Joe looked at it and said it makes him wonder, "where's the baby."
I've said from the beginning that I think this baby might be a musician like his or her grandfather and great-grandfather. For whatever reason music has been more pronounced to me while pregnant.
I'm amazed at the way an album or song can remind you exactly of a time and place, or even, collective state of mind. Ani Difranco's Reprieve album reminds me of the campaign so vividly that I have actually refrained from listening to the album much since so that I can preserve that connotation for a time when I am able to write down a few reflections about the experience.
I wonder what songs will bring back what it feels like now to be so close to this baby, yet so curious about and unknowing of who he or she is. It's bound to be Andrew Bird songs and maybe a little Zeppelin.
