Hello HI Family - Good News

Congrats on the baby!! Can't say I have much experience in the area myself, thankfully for now, but I do like kids that aren't mine! Much easier to hand back ya know. So please do post some pics when you get a chance, but do get some rest and take your time. We'll still be here :)

PS. Don't think you're gonna get away without sharing his name!
 
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Congrats Dad! Looks like you and he are already well bonded. I couldn't help but notice the poster on the wall behind you in the picture. I was also born at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, a long time ago... My grandparents lived in Rochester, and my granddad worked for Eastman Kodak. But we only lived there for 8 months, at which point my mom & dad moved to the Binghamton, NY area, where I grew up.
 
You're embarking on a remarkable journey, my friend:)

You're about to experience the single most fulfilling event of your life so far. It doesn't matter that for the first few months he's not much more than a pooping, screaming plant that will require you and your wife to sleep in shifts like you're on the lookout for midnight cattle rustlers:D

I'm dead serious, you are going to be in absolute awe of every-freaking-change and development that happens to this little guy. The way he breathes when he sleeps, the way he moves his eyes and focuses on you when you talk to him, the way he grips your finger (or yanks out your chest hair), the goofy faces he makes when he passes gas. It's all an absolute joy.

You're going to discover that he's this perfect little mixture of you and his mother. Sometimes to a rib-splitting humorous degree, sometimes to the point you start air-punching the sky in frustration;) You'll figure out his likes and dislikes. You'll get to explain the natural world to him, read all kinds of incredible books (baby/kid's books don't have to be awful. There are some great ones out there!), and check for monsters in the closet. It's like watching the most interesting, captivating, and astounding story unfold before your eyes, and it's one you and his mom get to help write.

But hang on tight! Time is relative, and having a kid moves it at warp speed. I can't believe my little Evey is going to be SIX this month. It seems like it was just yesterday I was holding her in the gliding rocker in her nursery at our old house as I fed her a late night bottle. The pink walls adorn with the birds and branches her mother and I hand-painted warmly radiating all the love and the hope we had for her in the soft glow of her night light. He tiny chubby fingers closing and squeezing around mine as she gulped down her milk.

Now she's over 4'3" tall and an all knees and elbows beanpole that is brimming with energy getting ready to go into the 1st grade. She's so smart and SO sassy and such a gorgeous girl with the biggest heart. However, even 6 years later as I watch her quickly outpace me in pretty much everything, when I look into the beautiful blue eyes her mama gave her, I still see my chubby little wispy-haired baby staring back at me in the dim glow of her nursery in the wee hours noisily drinking her bottle and curling into my chest as I hum a nonsensical made-up lullaby.

The milk is gone, I'm running on fumes, but still we slowly rock. One more song, just a couple more strokes of her soft smooth cheek. I honestly believe the my most peaceful and blissful moments were those spent cradling my little girl at 2 a.m.

Fatherhood is a trip, man. It's such joy, such fun, so exciting, SO scary. You have no idea what you're doing, and all the help books aren't going to keep you from flying by the seat of your pants. That's okay. All you have to know how to do is love that little guy with every fiber of your being. The rest will work itself out.

Congrats:)
 
He is such a little moose! So strong. Three days old and he wants to hold up his head himself for burping... (no.).
He's fighting with me, struggling, pushing his legs into our chest and lifting his body up like he's a little wrestler doing bridges.
Do you want more food? Snapping turtle lunge!

Soon he'll be squatting 2x bodyweight..

http://imgur.com/a/cFw5r

Two more Pictures!
Parker James says hello.
:) (Yes, that is a cleft lip and palate. It's not a bug, it's a feature.)

edit: Read these posts to my wife. We cried, we laughed and laughed. What a precious gift this community is (And this new life!).
I'll be extra-smelling those roses now. Thanks again. Jake your a great writer. Midnight cattle rustlers... HAHAHA
Gratefully....
 
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Big congrats! I can't think of anything to say that Jake hasn't already said more eloquently :D

You're in for a trip.
 
Hm... maybe a little Biltong or Katne with spotted deer antler handle, kothimoda sheath and Deer/Stag family crest engraving...
 
Grats stwm! So Khul to have new life in the family! Your hands will be full but it is the greatest gift one could have! Wanted to send grats earlier but my keyboard crapped out and was a massive undertaking to post with just a mouse :(. You have to cut and paste letters and spaces and all from other websites to form a message so they were far and few and very short. I finally got me another keyboard. What Khuk do you think I should use to crush my old one? Im thinking 20 inch super CAK? It going down one way or the other! Maybe a sword?
Anywayz glad everything went well and nothing will ever be the same! Enjoy life!
 
... I finally got me another keyboard. What Khuk do you think I should use to crush my old one? Im thinking 20 inch super CAK? It going down one way or the other! Maybe a sword?
Anywayz glad everything went well and nothing will ever be the same! Enjoy life!
Before splintering to smithereens, might be fun putting a few atlats through
 
Stumbled across this old picture in my search for another.
As you can see this round was a draw. Good ole days for sure.

 
Stumbled across this old picture in my search for another.
As you can see this round was a draw. Good ole days for sure.


LOL....I remember them days! It was a draw many a time, I think I actually lost a few of them outright.
 
Before splintering to smithereens, might be fun putting a few atlats through

Oh Heck yeah! That WILL happen! Great ideer there sir! Ill try to video it:thumbup:

Wow! Cool shot Mr. B! I used to have that same T-shirt! I rode a 1976 Yamaha YZC125.
 
I never had a YZ, rode a bunch of them, real pipey critters they were. Ride along, hit the pipe and the front wheel launched for the moon.

I flat tracked for many years in my youth. Scrambled a few times, only motocrossed once or twice, I just never could get the hang of motocross.
 
Little man just got back from two surgeries - hernia repair and cleft palate repair.

http://imgur.com/a/X0McV


Some pain, little swelling, and some stitches and glue and he is ready for his closeup!

His hernia was repaired without incident and you can see his face looks a little different too (what a difference)!

Some children won’t take milk and need to be syringe fed for up to 10 days!

Last night was a little bit hairy but he started drinking from the bottle the same day!

What a handsome little tiger!
 
good for him.

isn't he a bit young to be hitting the bottle?

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oh. just lager...that's ok then.
 
I enjoyed reading back-through steely's post, it really has come to pass.
Just lager! yeah.. hah. stouts too, yknow, it's basically bread.
 
Little man just got back from two surgeries - hernia repair and cleft palate repair.

WoooHooo!!! So glad to hear he is doing well. That is a lot of pain for a lil one to have to deal with. Glad he is handling it well. Heck if he isn't even smiling in that after pic you posted so whatever beer/Ale choices you are using seem to be working ;)
 
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