You Feel That Kickin?
Last night, for the first time, I felt the baby kicking away inside of Dinka's growing belly, a couple of indistinct but unmistakable thuds. Although the kicks were few and far between, it was very exciting, I assure you. I think it must be so cool to have a little person in there that you carry around everywhere you go. Everyone else just sees a pregnant belly but you have a little companion with you all the time, alternately sleeping and kicking but always growing. That's a very cool secret to be in on. It reminds me of the scene in Of Mice And Men in which John Malkovich's Lennie is trying to hide a couple of puppies in the bib of his overalls and they are squirming around, tickling him to laughter. At least that's how I imagine it.