My son, the Turtle and a good game of Othello

So, I know the general time for kids to be formed in the womb is the "nine month midnight," but Henry's more on the 9.5-10 month plan. Steph's been kinda in labor for three days, but it's not REAL labor (aka stage two or active labor) and could go on forever. So in celebration of the three weeks I've churned out and then used up sub plans, I went out and bought my son some shorts. They have a turtle on them. They're cute and appropriate.

While waiting a million years for Henry to make his debut, Steph and I played a game of Othello to pass the time on Friday afternoon. If you're unfamiliar with the game, it's like a checkerboard without the colors, and the pieces are small double sided disks with a white side and a black side. It's a military strategy game in which you flank your opponent in order to capture and turn over his or her pieces to your color (or whatever the proper word is for the black-white dichotomy--tone? race? I guess you can kinda get the picture if you've read Othello). Well, as Stephanie was playing rather abysmally, and I was doing better than normal, I decided to see if it was possible to completely black out the board. It is. I took a picture just for the record. You can't win this game better than I did.

Fortunately, Steph was playing for the good company and not the competition.