It's a Boy
Topher's minutes-old fingers were scaly-white and wizened. As I held him for the first time, I marveled at the similarity between those hands and the wrinkled ones of my grandparents, of my great aunts and uncles. I touched the creases. He was my little old man in a hospital room that buzzed with being born. Two days later, on the morning of our departure, I held my son in my lap while The Partner showered in the bathroom. I had given birth on the very same bed, in the very same room, but now it seemed a different place in the sun and the silence. I saw the brightness of Topher's finger flakes and thought again about how old his new parts shone. I cried then, not just with a hormonal surge, but with the pressure of an entire lifetime laid out on a tiny pair of hands. I sobbed so loud and long that The Partner heard me from behind the heavy institutional door. He emerged from the bathroom to ask what I was crying about. "Nothing," I said. "Nothing." Christoph...
Go to the garage and put that girl behind a lawnmower!
ReplyDeleteshe's huge!!!! I can't believe how big she is getting!
ReplyDelete1) Good for you!
ReplyDelete2) I love her outfit. I would have liked something like that when I was a wee thing.
3) That third picture of the Boss cracks me up!
She's SO CUTE!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. God.
ReplyDeleteI want to squeeze her!
hmmmpf. ok. understood.
ReplyDeleteoh, and um. gorgeous. wow.
OMG she is so adorable. I can't believe how incredibly fast they grow! She's such a little GIRL now, no more baby in sight.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy enjoy enjoy. Remember, it all goes too fast anyway :(
Hear, hear!!!
ReplyDeleteshe's getting so big!
ReplyDeleteLook how big she is!! When did her hair grow that long?
ReplyDeleteShe's so CUTE! I could eat her up.
ReplyDeleteShe is so beautiful.
ReplyDeletewow. I love her. Love love love. She is really funny.
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