Hello again.

Happy Friday the thirteenth, if you’re still out there.

I know it’s been more than six months since I’ve had time to say anything here, but I’ve got a good one this time.

What better way to follow up a pregnancy announcement than with a birth announcement?

In that vein, I’d like to tell you that Audra Patricia Susannah joined our band of crazies a week ago. On 6 August, 2010 at 5:24pm, Audra was born, weighing 6 pounds, five-and-half ounces, and measuring 19 inches long.

She’s doing all the things a week-old baby should do, and she’s doing them with gusto.

Photos and birth story and hopefully much, much more will follow soon. I promise. At least, I promise I’ll try my best.

My daughters spent the morning playing Lesbian Dinosaur Wedding. They ran around in froofy things from the dress-up box teaching each other different skills, according to the types of dinosaur they each were. Lilah explained that they were preparing to marry “girl by girl”.

I’m tickled. They’ve picked up some paleontology from books, preschool and The Magic School Bus; they’ve picked up some left-wing politics from family, friends and pride parades, and they may have solved the mystery of extinction.

Wisdom of age almost three-and-a-half:

Lilah, yesterday, said to the dog, “I don’t want to smell you right now, Nozy. Cover your nose.”