I am amazed at every baby, but mine is truly astounding. She is so peaceful and calm, and everyone that holds her mentions how soothing it is to hold her.
Sophia is devoid of any of the tension you normally get with newborns. It’s like she is just a peaceful spirit and understands what we’ve all been through over the past month and more and that she needs to go along to get along or something.
Lauren, while very excited and with her dial turned up to a Spinal Tap like 11, is very gentle with her and around her.
Having a second child just seems fundamentally different than when we had our first one, and I can’t quite put my finger on why.
So the wife and urchin 2.0 are all set to come home today. Lauren was a little weepy around bedtime last night “missing her mommy and sophia,” but we got to sleep alright and except for my 12:15am wakeup for some more Percocet, everyone slept great.
And then a little after 6am…I heard it.
The cough.
Not an isolated cough. It was a wet croupy cough. Urchin 1.0 was sitting up in bed just hacking away.
So my wife’s four days removed from surgery and bringing home our four day old daughter, and I’m 8 days removed from getting out of the hospital from heart surgery, and I’ve got a kid with a hack.
Who saw THIS coming?
p.s. Today there will be pictures coming from both the surgery and from the arrival of Sophia.
TMLSB
What say you?