Post from Dad

I hope that if I can keep him under one thousand hours of therapy by the time he's thirty, I will have done at least a decent job of parenting. As I stare at Henry in his basinette, hundreds of thoughts and illusions about what he is to become race through my mind. Will he be left handed or right, type-A or type-B personality, an athlete or a trumpeteer. Unanswered questions about your newborn son have a tendency to keep you without sleep worse than the highest shrill of crying he could dish out. The anticipation already tugs at me like a hundred pound weight and I've only been a father for a little over a day and a half.

So this is what fatherhood is like............so far. I'm an infant myself when I compare my experience to any other father out there. I love it. Henry has sucked me up like a vacuum and spit me out like boiled over noodles. I couldn't be in love with anything more perfect other than my wife. Could it really be that something, someone as screwed up and imperfect as myself could have helped to produce an actual person more flawless than the most precious diamond? I'm floored. My knees feel weaker than the first time I tried to kiss my wife. Can it get much better than this? I'm actually enjoying changing his diapers, and can't help but laugh aloud as I realize how absurd I sound.

I'm still staring at Henry quietly laying in his basinette. My masterpiece. My boy. This is a Father's proudest moment. He could build me up a million times, and I'm sure he will shred me to my knees just as much. I welcome every day of it. I've never backed away from a challenge and I feel like this will be the biggest of all my life. With open arms I will rush head first into the gauntlet of parenthood.

Do I sound excited? It's real and it's better than any rush you could imagine. I told Alle I would put something on here. I hope that everyone who reads this gets saturated in my honesty and understands how genuine it is. Thanks for sharing in this incredible experience with my wife and I. We are truly blessed to have friends that love us and support us the ways they have in the last couple of days.

Dad