A Beautiful Girl!

Adeline's Birthday

Its A Girl!!! baby Adeline finally joins us on planet Earth and in laborious fashion after a long and strenuous labor, our new baby girl, Adeline Marie Pearson was born on August 16th at 10:23am via cesarean section. Tipping the scales at 8lbs and 1oz - she is a picture of beauty and health. We're finally home tonight to enjoy her glow at home. Click the image to view a quick little gallery with more to come!

Contraptions

Today (Sunday) was Bern's second day of 'lotsa contractions throughout the day' - actually until yesterday we hadn't really had any - or they went un-noticed. But yesterday she had maybe 12-15 before they settled down for beddy and today she followed up with another good 15+ We've been tracking them - seem to be getting slightly closer - but not time to rush to the ER just yet... they're definitely not 'killer contractions' as shes handled them beautifully - with as much grace as ever. Doesn't complain - just pauses and says 'yeeeeah. think thats another one.' She's been too busy baking to feel any pain. Apparently its a good idea to bake so it keeps you mind busy - and one can use freshly baked goods to bribe the ever important labor nurses to take extra good care of you. She made some dyno-mite banana bread muffins (using Cole's fabuloso secret recipe +25% extra choco-chips...) - and with a little consulting from my sis - berns also baked some fresh blueberry muffins - with crumble-cake top - haven't tried thems yet - but might do so right after this sentence...

In Heavy Rotation

Dooooood... DOOOOOOOOOD! This be summa dat theer roots reggae-mon - Hands down the best reggae I heard since BOB (dylan). No but seriously folks - Recently discovered these cats via iTunes i believe - and I must say - extremely impressed - deep roots bass, amazing energy in this little guy's unique voice. Dude sounds like a creature from golom's neck of the woods - but with maaaaaad soul. Oh and heres the kicker-he's a tiny little white kid with a beard and some raggamuffin turbin. Looks may be deceiving as these cats have turned out a handful of really good music. Check out this pic - you can almost see his voice! Reggae is somehow both happy and tragic - beats make me smile and nod my head whilst the lyrics make me wanna throw the fist in the air for huey! This is the best album I've heard from them but I'll likely start rotating the other ones cuz this one is toight - toight loik a toiger. Enjoy the head nods that should ensue upon your listen...

cute

Bought some cute baby clothes this weekend at the street fair - kinda nice when you find some stuff at these fairs - cuz seems like they're always the same ol garbeeg. But since we need to keep the berns-a-walkin we strolled around a bit and spotted these hip little kid garments... hey I should start a kids clothes label for hip kids called 'varmit garments'...or for domesticated ferret owners with disposable income...anyhoo - this is the only picture they had on the website - the one we picked is nuttin like this - way much cuter - its a little brown one-zee with dandelions on it. I post pics of bubby when s/he finally comes.

Lookin at an induction if we cant pop it out this week - but the walks and such have been working and berns been having lots of contraptions this weekend. We're in for a fluid check in the morning so if that looking good we'll be on our own for a few more days. I'd guess tomorrow night - maybe tuesday. JG has recently predicted 7:26 pm on Monday evening. I might go more like 3:21am on Toozdee.

Boy or Girl?

People keep asking - is it a boy or a girl... I say yes. Its one of those - but we dunno which yet - I forget who said this to me - but life has far too few true surprises - and this is already about as exciting as it gets. old skule fool.

Not too many people have asked if I have a preference, but its come up. I used to. 2yrs ago i woulda told anyone I (and did) that I wanted all boys - cuz teenage girls scare me to death. I'd be that over protective father that the 15 yr old girl would revolt against causing under-aged drinking, drugging, humping, birthing, etc... But that was then.

If its a Girl...
Oh man - how much cuter does it get than a little 4 yr old daughter? I'm no longer scared by the prospects of over-fathering a young lady for I have seen the light and understand that love conquers all. Not to say there will not be challenges - I'd be fool to think so - but girls are probably much better humans over-all on a global average. They seem to love more, hate less, think first, hit later, and of course I generalize here but sweetness is sweet - and any daughter raised by the berns will have sweetness in spades. if we do our job right, our girl will be a free thinker, with confidence, and turn table skillz...

If its a Boy...
I hope to dog above that i can raise a boy with compassion - not the GW Bush kind - but true heartfelt compassion and awareness of himself, of others, and of his surroundings. I'm looking forward to the wrastlin and muck-raking that comes with boy energy too, but I think the world could use some more thoughtful gents - with confidence and with an incredible change-up to follow his devastating 2-seamer...

I dunno - I just want my bubby outta that there belly - another 15 minutes on 'broil' oughta brown it to a perfect medium rare. We're currently 2 days overdue - if no labor by late next week we'll probably induce... not our first choice - but we'll see how it goes! - Bottom line is we get to take the sweet little munchkin home soon!

Due Date Schmoo Date

So its been some time since I last posted... lots went on...Like... June and July. I guess I turned wut like 31 - so I'm prett much a legit adult now. And to prove it - I'm days - if not moments - away from producing my first progeny. I am uttery amazed at the excitement, anxiety, anticipation... I'm having trouble sleeping these days, as all I can think about is my child. That sounds awkward to me. My Child. That sounds intense to me. MY CHILD. That sounds fantastic to me.

I just want to squeeze the little grubber, not in a postpartum depression kinda way, but this little guy or gal has been growing in my beautiful wifes body for a long while, and being so close to holding this new human, this bundle of potential, this - wow - its like a really important story that will unfold and create this little one's 'life'... its really exciting.

Its a little scary too. I'm a pretty confident person, in terms of my abilities to parent, provide, protect, teach, learn, etc. - but this is pretty different than anything I've ever done. But with even more confidence, i am so excited to see the berns be a mommy. She's going to do really well in there. I'm almost not worried about that part. I still have all the 'ifs' ruining my sleep but we can't control that stuff. So I wait.

My good-buddy JG (father of Noah) had a sobering and somehow calming comment on the phone the other day. I'm telling him about all the worries about what could go wrong, and while I know its out of my control and slim odds - I can't help but feel anxious and nervous about it - and he plainly said - 'yeah... and it never stops.' - and i was like ... dag yo - ur right huh? i'm gonna be caring way too much about this little grubbinsky forEVER.

I'll end there cuz thats some nice oceanic wisdoms from the g.