On Monday, someone from my church had a baby. My roommate and I headed over to the hospital last night to check her out. Man O Man, this little girl is cuuuuuute. Little Lydia Cha has a full head of hair (actually, more hair than her 13 month old sister has right now), opened her eyes a couple times, and sucked on her pacifier vigorously. What a cutie. I held her for about fifteen minutes, and she was so tiny and sleepy and cute. I'm such a puddle around babies.

That said, I have no desire to have one for many many many years. I've been having this conversation a lot lately actually. My senior year roomate's sister just had a baby, after 42 hours of labor, a c-section and did I mention the baby was two weeks late?? When I used to tell Julie G. how freaked out I was about the notion of childbirth, she'd always tell me that it's a natural thing, and that millions of women have gone through it, and that she was going to have a natural childbirth herself. After her sister's experience-- that went out the window. Now Julie G. seems just as freaked out about it as I am. I mean pregnancy seems difficult enough, but childbirth seems positively torturous. This is not a topic I think about all that much, but it's just been at the forefront lately because of Julie G.'s sister, Julie L., Hannah H., Alice L., Tina C. and Joy C. all having babies within the past seven months. Moral of the story: childbirth is scary and I'm not having kids for a long time. Also, to all the men who read this: You better buy your wives big ol' jewelries or something when they have babies, cause while you're sitting around with your digital cameras, they're doing all the hard stuff.