Goodyear, AZ
8:22 PHX
I have hit the stage in life when most of the weddings are completed and now it is baby time. It’s been a busy few weeks for my friends and the stork. There are King’s twin girls in Asheville. Big Rob in Charlotte had a girl. Jim in Rochester just had a girl. And my peeps in AZ who I’m visiting had a boy just before Christmas. It is incredible to see the looks on the new mom’s faces in the pictures and to hear the happiness in the voices of the new dad’s when they’ve called me.
But being here is a little different. Jacob is my first Godson. What an honor it is.
He was zonked out when I arrived, but today the little guy was up, wiggling and gyrating. He’s only two months old and for some reason, I am nervous when holding him. When they get older, that goes away. I think a lot of guys have that uneasiness with the newborns.
We’ve been spending a lot of time hanging. He gets fed every three hours or so. He does a lot of sleeping. It still amazes me when I see my friends and their kids. They are little versions of them, with their features and attitudes. What a feeling that must be.
Time to run. Jacob calls…