- Did you miss me, did you even know I was gone?
- Thanks to everyone for all your well wishes, we’re very thankful.
- It may make absolutely no sense, but being a father still doesn’t feel real to me.
- Biggest shock after birth – how friggin’ hairy our baby is, there’s all sorts of small dark hair in places that surprise me.
- The staff at Las Colinas Medical Center were just superb. It was a pleasant surprise at how involved they made me as part of the experience. That being said, I saw everything, and there are some things I will never unsee.
- WifeGeeding was nothing but trooper through the entire process. She started to experience contractions early last Sunday morning, but we didn’t leave the house to go to the hospital until 9:oo pm. When we got there, the nurse thought it was going to be a false alarm since we were first timers, but then she checked WifeGeeding and said,”Girlfriend, we are keeping you. You did all the work at home, you’re at 7 centimeters.”
- I think WifeGeeding did about two full hours of hard pushing, and yes, she did have an epidural.
- I kept the weight and height a secret because my manager at work like to play the guessing game with the team, but she weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 inches long.
- DogGeeding and OtherDogGeeding don’t really seem interested in BabyGeeding.
- WifeGeeding delivered at 4:36 am on Sunday but didn’t go home until Wednesday afternoon, which seemed like a long time.
- When I’m out in public and I hear a baby crying, I’m easily annoyed, but have learned it’s much different when it’s your own child.
- Breast milk sure does have a sweet taste to it.
- So far we’ve been pretty lucky, she’s a pretty good sleeper and doesn’t cry all that much.
- I installed the car seat all by myself without a problem, but still had a fireman check it out to make sure. Actually, WifeGeeding made me check with the fireman.
- SisterGeeding really enjoys being an aunt. It was nice “her come down for a several days to help out. WifeGeeding’s mother is coming down today to hang out for a while.
- BabyGeeding likes to crawl up my chest, which surprises me.
- Had a friend call me on Saturday just to ask me what it was like to be a dad for about a week, that was very thoughtful of him.
- We’re already running into health insurance billing issues. Urgh.
- You know, it’s been liberating not surfing the web for an entire week.
- I watched the last three minutes of th e Celtics/Lakers game and thought it was funny that ABC was having trouble censuring words. With less than a minute to go I heard the s-bomb and a “that’s my n—–.”
- Remember that song “Whoomp There It Is”? There’s a rumor that Barack Obama is in there video, at the 1:01 mark. I have it cued up for you here, he’s the guy on the phone.
- The Reoccurring Prop Newspaper
- I didn’t know there was such as thing as religious confetti.
- A very cool knife set
- Someone tried to make a Batmobile out of an old Pontiac Grand Am
Welcome back. And yes, we did notice you were gone
) Glad things are going fairly smoothly over there.
Thought she was born at 4:36 on MONDAY morning!
You were gone?
Normally you post so much, there's too much to get through in a week. You could be gone for a month and I would still not be caught up.
Congrats on the larva. The dogs are not interested because it is technically not food.
TMI on a few things but overall love seeing you back.
As for hospital bills, took me 6 months to figure out each one and even then, still got a refund overpayment on one and a credit report ding on another for being unpaid for $15. I call the place but it's the wrong number. 2+ yrs later…still don't know who to pay off on that one. Good luck!
Oh goodness! Congratulations! I am so sorry that it took me this long to comment! I had to have an epidural recently myself, but not for a baby, for a leg… So I am trying to catch up on my favorites, as I have been blogless for a couple of weeks now! Congrats on BabyGeeding!
She'll soon lose a lot of the hairiness.
Oh I was going to also say, on the hairy-ness – I bet WifeGeeding had a lot of heartburn during her pregnancy if she was very hairy. There was a study that showed that women who had a lot of heartburn during their pregnancy had babies with more hair than those who did not have much heartburn!