Some of you know Felix. That’s not her real name of course but she comments on this blog from time to time under that name. Felix and I used to work together at the junk mail factory. Felix is one of my buddies from my old lunch bunch. We used to go to lunch all the time. (Back in the days before we all had kids.)

A funny thing happened to my lunch buddies. We all got pregnant in the same year! It was in the water or something. Jbomb had her baby a few months before me and Felix was due a month after me. Nat is due this coming August. It’s catching.

Felix had her baby a month early and guess who was in the hospital on the very same day we were? Felix and Baby Felix! You can imagine my surprise when I hobbled down the hall to my Baby Care Discharge Class and who should I see two doors down but Felix, her husband and her little four pound baby Felix! Surprise surprise!

It’s been fun having a friend who has a baby almost exactly the same age as Baby Bug. We like to get together and compare notes. Baby Felix was born premature but is formula fed and she’s already caught up to Baby Bug in size! They both have the same jerky movements and they both drool a lot. Baby Felix has super long eyelashes and Baby Bug has nearly no hair at all. They make the same sounds and they even suck their pacifiers the same way!

Unfortunately, Felix moved out to the boondocks but she still comes out to visit now and then. I’m trying to talk her into moving back to the beach but she has a house now with a real yard and washer and dryer… so I can sorta understand the pull of the boondocks. If it wasn’t for Toby’s job and my addiction to walking on the beach every day, I’d move out there in a second. But that’s not going to happen any time soon so we are just happy that Felix misses walking on the beach too and likes to come visit us.

I really hope we all stay close. How cool will it be to show Baby Bug and Baby Felix these pictures when they are teenagers?

Susan is here! She is my fairy godmother. I am so lucky it’s not even funny. I don’t know what I did to be so blessed by such wonderful people in my life. It blows my mind.

So far she took me out to coffee, bought me a new outfit (and convinced me to give in and actually go up a size in jeans! Oh the wonderful relief of jeans that actually don’t cut off my circulation!), held Baby Bug for hours on end, brought me an orchid plant for my office, cooked spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, took me to my favorite Asian Market so we could have an adventure together, bought a gift certificate to Maccaroni Grill for Toby and I to go out to dinner tonight AND she’s been talking a mile a minute with Toby about some new business plans. She’s a whiz at business and she’s going to whip us into shape–which we badly need. Phew! So much fun cram packed into two days, it’s crazy. I’m going to miss her really bad when she goes home.

Today we are going to run a thousand errands and get a pedicure and my eyebrows waxed. I really need it. My eyebrows are atrocious.