She with the beautiful name

She'll be one day old later today.
I am, as expected, in love.

She seems healthy, despite being in the NICU. I haven't had an update since about noon today, over 6 hours ago. But mom and dad have had almost no sleep for 2 days so I shouldn't expect to hear anything right away. I guess. This is all so new.
My daughter's first and probably only, or so they said at one time.
I’m not particularly superstitious but maybe if I post this I’ll get a text or a call.

Praying mantises being born

Every year praying mantises build their nests around my front yard. I've been watching this nest for 2 months and finally saw the birth. What looks like a huge bunch of bananas are hundreds of tiny babies. They crawl out of itty bitty holes in the nest and using, apparently, some web-like material hang together until each one crawls over the others and finds his or her way off to a big life of eating mosquitoes and other bugs. In a few months the big ones will be peeking in my front window taunting my cats.

Stolen from Twitter: Fake Melania, meets Diane Arbus, meets Kubrick