Where do I start? This has been an event-filled week, to say the least. Let me silence the crickets who are getting organized in an attempt to overthrow this blog and get to the pile of news to report.

What’s this? A moneypit?
We’re now proud homeowners! No, we didn’t abandon the Bay Area and start buying huge tracts of land in North Dakota. We picked up the first official Shih family money pit over in the Redwood Heights neighborhood of Oakland. We’re in the process of boxing up all our worldly possessions to move next week. All I have to say is that I’m glad that after this move, I won’t have to think about moving for a long time.

What’s this? More Shihs?
Yeah, baby. Literally. For those of you who have missed Tam’s expanding waistline, that’s right, the family is primed to expand by 33.333% (repeating, of course) come April. We had a date with the ultrasound yesterday afternoon and found out the gender. Apparently everyone was guessing that it was a girl. Well, they were right!

Here she is picking her nose…

And here she is waving to all of you out there on the web…

It seems I’ve already been vetoed on my first baby name: Sue. Come on, you know you laughed. Don’t lie.