sleep is for suckas

we know everybody just wants to see pictures of the little man, so i figured i would start with those. annie typically thinks babies are ugly, but she can't keep her eyes off this one. he is, after all, one of the most beautiful babies to ever be born, so it's only fair.

although we are not sleeping nearly as well as we did before he got here, we feel like we would be hard pressed to find a better reason to get up in the middle of the night. annie is great, well past the worst of the pain, and such a natural mother it has brought tears to my eyes more than once. her patience and sacrifice are very humbling, a shining example for me to follow.

on top of that, we feel like we have gotten nothing but good news since he got here. he was born with one ear smaller than the other (another merely cosmetic footnote) but he passed his hearing test, and a sonogram of his kidneys (which develop around the same time as his ears) revealed that they are working splendidly. as if i needed further confirmation, he nearly peed all over me last night from about two feet away. i literally had to dodge the stream, and it took annie and i quite a while to catch our breath. (picture below)


we will probably check out of the hospital tomorrow, heading home to full responsibility and i am sure even less sleep. at the same time, we can't wait to see what he does next. thanks once again for all the love, support, encouragement, calls, emails, texts, and continued prayers.