Okay - I admit, lately the only thing I've been thinking about is Baby Traces -- and getting back in shape so I can lug her around in the harsh Toronto winter weather. Oh -- and I've been riding one of these around the city - not like riding my beloved Triumph - but damn fun...

I digress...

Baby Traces is now about six weeks away. Hard to believe. I put together a really tight 12-week-get-my-fat-ass-back-in-shape plan -- and I started it when there were 12 weeks to go before Baby Traces arrived -- I'm now halfway through week 6 -- I'm feeling great -- and I can tell you that she's just about all I think about while I'm working out - or while trying not to get killed riding my bike in heavy Toronto traffic...

Ali thinks she looks like an alien -- but I have some photos my mother gave me - of me and my brother when we were quite young -- we had oval heads the size of watermelons until we were like 20 -- so there...

We picked out a crib and mattress and a car seat. I really like the baby place - they have the COOLEST baby gadgets EVER... I'll be going there more often -- WITHOUT Ali -- she just stands around and says silly things like, "why do we need that?" -- or -- "She doesn't need the rhinestone ladden Liberace stiff mattress!!!" -- or -- "We're NOT getting the skull and crossbones sheets!!!"... Pfft -- women...

Anyhoo -- I'm not completely convinced SHE is a SHE -- just take a look at these photos -- the second one SUPPOSEDLY proves SHE is a SHE -- but I'm convinced that just maybe HE took a quite COOL dip BEFORE these photos were taken...

Listening to: Sweet Thing - Rufus & Chaka Khan

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