I should have worn heels -- life at 5'3" - Live at Locus Awards Weekend + Baby Stuff

04:22 pm - Live at Locus Awards Weekend + Baby Stuff

Ken and I are hangin' at the Locus Awards this weekend.  We're grabbing some writing/rest time in our room before heading back out into the crowd.  It's been a pretty cool weekend so far, though I missed all the fun last night.  Babies decided mommy was too tired to party (but still gave her insomnia!) so we hid in the room.  But Ken seems to have carried the Fun Torch for all of us.  Hopefully tonight will be a different matter.  The girls really enjoyed the awards banquet.  I think they thought the applause was all for them, because whenever everyone claps - which was every few minutes - I got a good kick, punch or squirm.  I think they thought they could accept awards for people.  They're already so ambitious!  :)

Had a lovely first breakfast with kenscholes , Kelly Young and Jenna Pitman.  Happy birthday to Kelly!  Then had a delightful second breakfast with bhagwanx and frabjouslinz up in Ballard.  They also introduced me to a great cupcake store.  Alas they did not have the cupcake onsies I was looking for.  So I had to move along.  It's probably a good thing that I didn't impulse buy, but I may have to go to their website at a later time to see if they've restocked.

I have been very lax in posting about the babies and the baby showers... or anything else of late.  I'm not sure if this is due to busy-ness or lazyness, but I'm going to opt for the former.  I still have so many thank yous to send out.  I must get on that.  And I do have much heartfelt gratitude for all of our friends, family and co-workers who have come out to share in the celebration of these two little ninja princesses. 

So a couple of things... our friends Kalle and Angus were clever and found a new acronym for the Scholes Family.  We are now the J.E.R.K.S.  (Jen, Elizabeth, Rachel and Ken Scholes).  Very clever.  We got a good laugh out of that.

Then... ta da!  I went and got a henna tatoo on my belly!  Most of you have seen it in the flesh already, because I've been practically flashing everybody my belly since I got it, but here are some pics, too.  This is with the paste still on, so it's very dark.  The artist, Melanie Schwartz, did such a great job.  She's local to Portland and is also at the Saturday Market.  You can view here stuff on her website at  http://www.bluelotushenna.com/index.html.  And here are a few samples of the art she did (free hand!) on me...