Victory...of a sort.

For the first time in my life I have beaten two Smith women at Scrabble. We figure it must have happened because I lost my voice yesterday and I had to compensate for not being able to express myself verbally in a rare outburst of Scrabble creativity.

My mom came over this afternoon and the four of us went for a walk to the Library, and around and about. Mandy's contractions are still in a holding pattern, but after dinner they began to renew their strength and it looks like the could be growing more and more intense. Keep checking and we'll let you know when hard labor begins.