Afternoon Update

Today we went to Enat restaurant near Northgate Mall for delicious veggie Ethiopian food for Rona’s birthday lunch. This is where we ate dinner the night before Zoey was born. True to form, contractions, which had slacked off yesterday and all night and morning, picked up again during lunch, and have kept it up ever since. They’re not active labor regular, but they’re getting stronger and are roughly 10 minutes or so apart.

Yesterday Zoey tried on a new swimsuit from Aunt Bev for the first time. She loves it (it’s pink with white polka dots, so what’s not to love?) and had a bunch of fun playing in her swimming pool (a banker’s box) and in the front yard.

In car news, yesterday Steve across the street loaned me a battery terminal cleaning tool after I talked with him about Rona’s car. I cleaned the battery terminals and the wire clamp thingies. Twice, since the car still wouldn’t start after the first cleaning. The second time was the charm (probably because I wiped the terminals off with a paper towel after brushing them again), and the car started right up. Upon testing the car yesterday with Steve (pre-cleaning) it started up fine, but Steve pointed out that the car was warm from the sun. This morning, cold but with shiny battery terminals, the car started up no problem. I was outside the same time as Steve today, and he expressed concern that I hadn’t let the car run for a while after getting it to start again. He had me park the car across the street by his house, and ran out some superlong charger cables. Their length will make the charge time slow, and it should be good to go tomorrow morning. Rona felt compelled to snag photographic evidence of me working on the car:

Last night Nicole, Chris, and "Cake" stopped by, with some of NikChick’s delicious lasagna rolls and chicken enchiladas for us to freeze, another box of books for Zoey, and a preview copy of Walk the Plank that Nicole brought back from the GAMA Trade Show. Thanks, guys!

On her site, Nicole pointed out that if Keegan is born tomorrow, his birth date will be 05-06-07, which we agree would be pretty cool! Let’s shoot for that, okay, Baby Keegan?