Welcome, great to meet you. Its been a total of 14 days and 12 hours since your birth. Which means it has been a total of 14 days 11 hours and 59 minutes since I had a sense of who I am as a human being. Being a new father has proved a great challenge and I am not sure about all those romantics out there who describe it as an "adventure." Adventures usually entail going somewhere.... like Guatemala or Nigeria. Fatherhood is more like an epic novel in which not a lot happens and the mundane becomes the extraordinary. For example, the first time we left the house with you in tow. A grand day indeed. Our destination: London Drugs, total trip time: 45 minutes. Total prep time for trip: 45 minutes. I was so happy that we made it all the way to the store and back with no major incidents.
I have been sleeping less. You and I spent last night (I should correct. What I mean to say is this morning, early...early this morning) watching B movies from the 80's. I'm sure you wouldn't recall Dragnet, but I believe you enjoyed it. You didn't cry at all during the entire showing. We also watched the opening of the morning news this morning. Something I have never done. Ever. Lots of firsts it would seem these last two weeks, for us both.
Funny, I thought that cleaning up your pooh was going to be a far greater ordeal than it actually is. You seem to hate it. You've achieved a new level of cry that I describe as 5th gear, which you only exhibit when your diaper comes off. I believe that you have a legitimate reason to be upset, every time your diaper is removed we discover that you have pooped all over your scrotum. If I were to poop myself up to my scrotum, I'd probably be a little choked too. You also seem to get quite upset when you pass gas. This I am afraid to tell you, never goes away. You will always pass gas. Might as well settle in for a lifetime of farting. Your mom and I will be there for you for your first few years of farting, but honestly buddy. At some point you're going to have to be able to let one rip without a large production about it.
