Friday, March 31, 2006

Of babies and babies

This morning on the train I opened Virginia Woolf's Complete Shorter Fiction and this picture fell out.

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I wonder who the kid is and whether he grew out of the mole in the centre of his bald head.

In the spirit of babies, the sister told me this morning that she felt Curtis-the-Fetus move. They find out next week if it's a boy or a girl. The last time I saw him he looked like this:

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You can see the family resemblance.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe in fact this babe in swaddling is of the hindu faith in which case maybe its a girl and has been already promised in marriage ha ha did you ever think of that? potentially you have just insulted an entire faith and people with moles have feelings too.oh and perhaps it is a message from your maker giving you a glimpse of your future in which case wont you feel like an idiot when you see your babies mole? and then i shall laugh and laugh unless you are prepared to admit defeat and give me my big fancy wedding with white tablecloths and hot bestmen oh and me as a bridesmaid.

Kristy said...

Hey! You didn't tell me the sister is preggers! Or did you and I forgot? Either way, its news to me! Will have to text her with congrats. And arrange visitation sometime after she has sproggified. I like babies. Awww bless!

Marissa said...

The child looks like an alien.

Anonymous said...

Wow liz, what a luving bunch of friends you have. One claims you insulted an entire faith, another forgets whether you told her your sister was pregnant, and the third claims the picture is an alien. The question is which picture. I am just disappointed that I only read my mail this morning and found your blog, because all the comments I was going to so cruelly make have already been said. Dammit, what happened to my originality?

Anonymous said...

marissa said...
"The child looks like an alien."

Liz said...
"You can see the family resemblance."






(Remaining anonymous for fear of reprisal. Don't piss off the aliens!)

Marissa said...

Ouch! I was, of course, NOT referring to Elizabeth's niece or nephew as an alien, but to the kid in the first picture.

Anonymous said...

Of course I knew what you meant, but it was too good a gag to pass up!

;)

Liz said...

Now now kiddies! No fighting about my rivetting copy! Wait for my extended tract on the immovability of western imperialism when faced with medically defunct post-colonial africa.

Anonymous said...

I am most offended that you even dare to insult my unborn child, the two of us are hurt!!
P.S! only two sleeps till we find out the sex!!! woohoo!!!!!