There, I said it. I still can’t believe it, but I said it. We are having a baby. Wow, it gets easier each time. B-A-B-Y. Wow, easy!
D-A-D . . . oh my gosh, what have I gotten myself into. OK, calm down. You can do this. It’s just a small human. A small human that is going to learn half of all it knows from you. A small human that will look to you for all the answers; look to you to know how to act, how to throw a ball, how to play the trombone. . . . I need to sit down.
That’s pretty much what I went through when Sharon, my wife, told me that she was pregnant. It just takes awhile for something like that to sink in. Sure you know it will happen someday, but you’re just never prepared. So lately, I’ve been shopping for strollers and playpens and anything and everything else that this new baby will need. We’re only in our 12th week, but it all seems to be coming so fast. There is so much to do. I need to repaint the office as the baby’s room, move my office into the basement, finish a room in the basement for my office. Maybe that should be in reverse order.
I really am excited about this. The longer I think about it, the more excited I get. The more I can’t wait for it to get here. Our big decision right now is do we want to find out what gender it is. We go back and forth on this. One day it’s a definite yes, the next it’s a definite no. Then we just don’t have a clue. It will probably come down to the last minute and we’ll just go with our gut. Then we’ll post the picture online and let everyone else figure it out for themselves.
Yesterday we heard the heartbeat. This thing is only about 4 inches long and it has a heartbeat. It’s incredible. It’s going like a rocket to. You can hear both Sharon and the babies at the same time. Sharon’s is a slow steady “thump-thump thump-thump”. The baby is going crazy “tick-a-tick-a-tick-a”. Almost like it’s saying “come-on-come-on-come-on”. It brings it a little closer to home to hear that heartbeat. Incredible, 11 weeks ago this thing was a single cell. One cell and now it’s got a heartbeat. The miracle of life. God has an excellent sense of drama.
Well, this is probably enough for the first entry in our baby diary. I’ll write more later. See ya.
Nate (Dad)