Your 2nd child - 9 lbs of pure enjoyment
one of my favorite pictures of Josh - I love having a boy
A few months ago I asked Halle what I should post about? Of course she said "post about me"! Well I must have some self-absorbed kids because today I asked Joshua what I should post about and he said "Joshee".
If you read the previous post about Halle - you can see why there was some serious apprehension about having another baby (Halle was an extremely difficult baby... to put it mildly). I remember my wife being pregnant and just counting down the days until the "hardest 3 months of our life" would begin.
In the ultrasound room my heart started pounding because I wanted a boy - however I thought I might be one of those guys who has all girls - payback for growing up with all boys. When the ultrasound tech said boy a huge wave of relief and excitement washed over me! Then the excitement was replaced with terror as I thought "Wait a second... girls are pure and innocent, but boys... oh no! I know about boys! I know what goes on in their heads... what are we going to do?"
The day came and we were prepared for the worst. We started sleeping 12 hours to store up for the long nights we were expecting. However Joshua stole our hearts from the beginning by being the best baby you could ask for. No screaming, no 2 AM cry-fests, no pooping or puking on me, he was just a good baby! Because of this I was completely enamored by everything he did! I would just watch him in awe - and couldn't believe that he was just such a good baby. I was in heaven!
To this day he is still such a good kid and constantly surprising us. Yesterday one of our friends came up to us and said "Josh is so smart - he can spell his name!" Other parents may have replied "I know - we've been working on it for quite some time". Our reply was "Really? I've got to see this!" We asked him when we got home and sure enough he did.
Thanks Josh for sparing us the three months of terror - we sure love ya for it!
