The last book of the
Baby Gate Series is this week's book-of-the-week,
Umbilical Cord.
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| Umbilical Cord and the Baby Gate box |
It accompanies Dreaming of Running the Bases and the title book, Baby Gate.
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| 3 books in the Baby Gate box |
Umbilical Cord has a green pastepaper cover, with a photograph of a baby and a mobile phone. It's boustrophedon pages are folded accordion-style then tied with a green grosgrain ribbon.
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| the modern baby gate... |
Inside, the title page continues the imagery of the cell phone...
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| Title page... |
...which leads up to the text of the book... cell phone text messages between a mother and her son starting the day before her grandson is born... and leading until his one-week birthday.
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| text of text messages |
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| 24 hours of intermittent texts... |
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| waiting.... and waiting.... and waiting.... |
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(Mom, 6:36pm): "I'm comfy in the waiting room..." ...then,
(Son, 9:42pm): "Sam is here. And wonderful" |
Imagine lots of cheering, hugging, and jumping around in the waiting room; and much snuggling, hugging, and tears of joy in the delivery room. Then, a query from the waiting room...
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(Grand'mom): how's our girl?
(son): Great. She wants the grandmas to come up... |
Imagine a huge Woohoo! in the waiting room. And the remainder of the book? .... 36 pages of photos of a new grandbaby.
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| standard to all grandma's cell phones... a full photo cache of grandkids |
At the end of the first week...
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| Gram and Sam |
... the
Umbilical Cord stretches in a new way.
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