Walking and lazing

 

Lots of walking today followed by some lazing around on the grass.  Beautiful today.  Baby is almost here!  The walking is helping get the little lady ready for her grand entrance. 

The last nights

 

It's a surreal thing when you know you are having your last nights before a new chapter begins.  You sit there feeling anxious, excited and overjoyed, but also a bit intimidated at the uncertainty of a life so different from the one we live now.  I know we are going to meet our baby girl soon!  Nadia has been amazing as always.  I can't imagine how she must feel if I am feeling this excited.  It's funny how much I'm going to miss that beautiful belly.  You get used to having it around and joining us everywhere we go :).  One day we will be looking back at these pictures with huge smiles, remembering all the funny stories that played out throught this journey, but for me I always try and imagine what we were feeling at that very moment.  In these pictures, I feel so much love for my wife and baby and so proud of them both. 

It all starts with a seed

 

When I first saw this image, I was at the receiving end of a text. My wife was with the doctor, and little did she know that she would be given an ultrasound to determine if a seed is present. Even upon hearing the amazing news that she was pregnant the first time, I was in my car, hundreds of miles from my wife, and she expressed to me over the phone her astonishment and simultaneous joy at the discovery that she was pregnant with our first child. Were we certain? 3 pregnancy tests were trying to assure us so, but we still wanted to be for certain. The image above reflects the very first glimpse that we both have had of our child to be. I can't begin to explain what I feel. To know that I will experience this with my soul mate seems grander than anything in this world.

And so, this blog is born. This is my own seed that I plant into this world. I want this to be a voice of our experience as we go through this journey together. I want this blog to be a window into such an amazing life I am living with the woman of my dreams. After all, if something is so dear and precious, why would I want to conceal it from the world other than to protect it? This is the first post. This is the seed of many to come. This is the window that I share with you.