On Pins and Needles

Day 105:

Well Conor, let's start with the great night of sleep you got last night! After your 12:00am bottle I laid you down to sleep around 12:30am and didn't hear a peep out of you until 5:45am! It's not your longest stretch but we'll take it.

No Son, more than that we got some news that frankly, we've all been waiting for! Your Aunt Jennifer's water broke!! Your Uncle Paul and Aunt Jen are in the hospital now awaiting Baby Landers 2.0, so needless to say we're all sitting on pins and needles awaiting to hear - is it a boy or a girl?

With this news I of course started thinking about the day you were born, Son. December 14th, 2011. A partly cloudy and cool day, slowly giving way to a soft rain. Of course, you weren't expected the day you decided to join us, so I didn't exactly have a chance to take stock in many of the details. Still, certain scenes of that day are as vivid in my mind as any in my lifetime. I can only imagine your Aunt Jen and Uncle Paul are feeling the same.

Here's to welcoming a new cousin and friend into the world, Conor! The Lion Heart is going to need all the playmates you can handle and I've no doubt you won't disappoint.

I love you, Boy'O.
-Dad