A growing family

I hadn't realized the last post was so long ago. I guess since I've been out of the habit for so long, blogging a couple of times each month seems like quite a lot.

Also, each time I've thought about posting, I knew I couldn't post about the top thing on our family's mind, but now it is open to the public. We're expecting our first child to join us, Lord willing, in late February. We heard the heart beat about a week and a half ago (there's a baby with its own beating heart in my belly!) and all my pants are getting too tight. I've told people at work and started letting Dan colleagues know.

The last of the fourth-years in Dan's department finished today (and is moving this week to his first post-doc) so I was able to meet the new first-years in his department. After a couple of years of no women in each class, this incoming class has 3 women! One of them is a friend from Caltech and it was fun to see her in this new environment. And yes - people really do finish PhDs in four years here at Princeton. Crazy!

The elevator isn't working again, but we're hoping to use that to meet other students. Dan's sending about a letter to the people in the building to send complaints/work-repairs to us as well as to housing so that Dan can examine the elevator problems for similarities in break downs circumstances.