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What Makes Parenting Worth It

The sleepless nights, the crying fits and the poopy diapers will probably not cause you to thank God you’re now a parent. However, if you’ve survived the first few weeks of caring for a newborn baby, I’m hoping that you’ve had a few of those “worth it” moments. Here are a few of ours: the [...]

Starting To Sink In

We’re still not in full parent mode yet, but each day seems to bring new signs of this whole parenting thing beginning to sink in. Today for example, I picked up baby G’s birth certificate. Most would probably not consider this a memorable event, but for me, it was kind of special. Seeing my daughter’s [...]

Got Poop?

Tonight was the night! We knew it was coming. We knew it would be BIG! We just didn’t know exactly when it would come. After 6 very long days, baby G finally pooped her brains out tonight — an epic bowel movement by all accounts. As expected, it took a tag team effort to change [...]

An Early Thanksgiving

Baby G had a busy weekend! On Saturday, she was the center of attention and met more of her family, including her Aunt R (G’s daddy’s sister-in-law) and cousins C and D, her Uncle M (G’s mommy’s brother) and her two cousins A and A, as well as her Uncle E (G’s daddy’s cousin) and [...]

More Firsts

There’s something about seeing your baby do something for the very first time that just makes you feel so proud. I’m not talking about big things here either, just the mundane actions or movements that we don’t pay much attention to. And even if the other parent saw it but not you, a part of [...]

Miracle @ Midnight

Barely awake right now, but just to sum things up…yes, I did witness a miracle just after midnight this morning, the birth of my baby girl or baby G as we like to call her. It was everything I thought it would be and then some! Sure, I was speechless, proud of my wife going [...]

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