Books Read in 2007

I've never kept an official record of the books I've read prior to May of 2008. All of these books though were mentioned on my blog as having been read in 2007. It is by no means a complete list, but for me, it's better than nothing, this partial list.

The Outsider by Albert Camus
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Lurve Is A Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
How To Be Popular by Meg Cabot
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild and Got A Life by Kaavya Viswanathan
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Q and A by Vikas Swarup
Missing You by Meg Cabot
Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
Princess Diaries After Eight by Meg Cabot
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Little Price by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Exodus by Leon Uris (reread)
Forever Blue by Ann Brashares
The Voice of the Gods by Trudi Canavan
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (reread)
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella
Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan
Sabriel by Garth Nix (reread)
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Youth by JM Coetzee
The Sea by John Banville
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Sula by Toni Morrison
Incantation by Alice Hoffman
Collected Poetry by Maya Angelou

...Two toddler parties and a bad case of acid refluuuux...

I've had a rotten few days. We've been super busy with Christmas preparations, and even two toddler Christmas parties in one day. At first I just thought I was feeling a bit crap because everything was happening all at once, but then it got to be that horrible acid-y feeling I've only felt a few times before - just before I went into hospital was acute pancreatitis. What a fun feeling that was. Apparently, being pregnant means I'm more prone to these things. Yay. I'm feeling much better, but still not 100%. I didn't get out of bed this morning until 11:30, I think that helped. But, the good news is, I got to feed a real reindeer. And Elliot cried when I tried to bring him over to pet him. I hope the photos turn out. If I don't see you before, I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Baby clothes...

Here's my confession: I bought these baby clothes more than a year ago for a cousin's baby in Australia. Because of an error in the postal address it got bounced around in some foreign post office before being sent back 6 months later. And by the time it got back to us, the clothes would have been too small for the little girl. So I kept them. (we sent other gifts for the cousin's baby of course!) And here's the thing, at least two friends of the family have given birth to little girls since then, but I've been hoarding these clothes. Just in case, you know? And when I found out I was having another boy, maybe for a little while I was sad at the idea of not being able to buy pretty dresses and pink butterfly tops, but it didn't last long, I promise. And now it'll feel a bit liberating to give someone else these little clothes. And I realised, boy's clothes are cute too. I went through all of Elliot's weeny baby clothes the other day and started crying. Everything was so little, and I kept remembering funny things that Elliot had done while wearing those clothes and I started looking forward to new memories of a new baby boy in those same clothes.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

The tree is up, the Christmas cards have been sent out, the Christmas music has been playing, the presents have all been bought... it's almost here! We have three children's Christmas parties that Elliot will be going to this year, N bought him the cutest outfit in the world to wear to them. I can't wait to post a photo! But I'm dying to hear about your Christmas traditions? How do you celebrate? Do you open a present on Christmas eve? Do you leave anything out for Santa?

And the wait is over...

I present to you Baby Number 2 in all HIS glory. Yes, it looks as though the baby is most definately male!