I wasn't born yesterday...

It was TWO days ago, fool! We came home from the hospital yesterday - less than two days after the birth. If you're ever having a baby here, don't give birth at midnight - you use up your first night hospital stay before the baby's even born! Anyhow, everything was going swimmingly so we went home. I was really hoping they'd give us that hello kitty blankie or the baby-pulling plunger to take home as a souvenir but all we got was the baby. What a rip.

I guess the whole thing wasn't that bad though - our friends Naoto and Tomone just had a baby in Barcelona, and Naoto described the birth as follows: "our midwife who was helping the doctor was up on the table squeezing her out from behind like a zit."

Zhanar and Dina are both doing well. I've made a blog just for baby pics and stories for those of you who are into the whole family thing. The link is on the right. I'll just post the highlights in this blog from now on.