It's been one week with Grandma, Grandpa and Matthew! Matthew arrived at dinnertime on Friday (two days earlier than expected due to scheduling changes! Yay!), and Mom and Dad arrived late Saturday after driving from Indiana (two days' drive for you Kiwis). Thomas loves to be with them all! He goes from person to person looking for cuddles and to be picked up, and gets upset when people leave, even just to go outside. For the first several days, he also got confused when it was time to go to bed -- he went straight to his room several times even though we moved his crib to the computer room. During the week, we ate Mom's good food, ate here and there at our favorite restaurants and coffee shops, and even tried a new Japanese Cream Puff place called Beard Papa's -- vanilla, chocolate and strawberry cream puffs -- yum! Poor Thomas went to bed very late that night but his little sister was very happy (in the womb)! Thomas is also still enjoying "swims" in pool with me and Matthew. 
Yesterday, Mom, Dad and Matthew went up to Gainesville to help Utaka load the moving truck for the big move to California! Dad and Utaka are going to drive cross-country while Mom stays with us. It sounds like they loaded up the truck efficiently, but really melted in the Florida heat--and then even more so in the oven of a truck! Utaka defended his PhD paper successfully in front of a committee, so he's now off to his internship in California to finish his doctorate in Neuropsychology! Great job, Utaka!
While everyone was gone, Thomas and I sent the day together, doing our usual thing. I said to him, "Thomas, we are going to Barnes and Noble today" and he looked up and me and made "choo-choo" noises. He knows that Barnes and Noble is the bookstore where they have the Thomas the Tank train set! Then he showed me how he blows spit bubbles. What a clever boy we have. He's also crazy about identifying all the buses on the road and anything yellow, which he declaims with a loud "naaa!" (The going theory is that his word for yellow comes from "banana.") He also loves the falling down part in ring-around-the-rosy, and pretending to talk to people on his "cellphone." 
Today I had my first lesson in hypno-birthing with my former labor coach, Michelle. She was very pleased with the way it went, and I couldn't believe that she said afterward that the actual hypnosis part lasted for 35 minutes! It didn't even seem to take half that long! Anyway, the goal of hypno-birthing is to put yourself into a deeply relaxed state during labor, which sounds great to me! And if I ever take up smoking, I'll know how to quit!
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