Waiting For My Real Life To Begin » Pregnancy https://blog.mattwhitaker.net M's Misconstrued Musings, Missives, and Manifestos Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:04:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Reminiscing https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=131 https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=131#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:39:06 +0000 Matt http://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=131 So I found myself watching Emiko while she was sleepy/sleeping last night. It still amazes me how fascinated I can be with something that does relatively little, in all reality. Every breath she takes is, to me, the most wondrous thing I have ever seen. It’s hard to quantify or put into words, but I do truly feel that she is the closest thing to a miracle that I have ever experienced in my life.

Smiling Emi.

How can anyone not melt for that?

Anyway, as I was watching her sleep, at one point she stretched and yawned, after which she started smacking her lips. Not only was it criminally cute, but I remembered seeing it somewhere before.

That was an ultrasound that Sara had back at the end of July, almost two months before Emi was born and before we knew whether she was Emiko Renee or Stormhammer Deathforge.*

*NOTE: Sara never agreed to the boy’s name, but I like to think that I could have gotten her to agree while she was hooked up to the painkillers.

Moot point anyhow, as Emi she was. It’s very weird for me to look back at this Ultrasound now and see so many of the same mannerisms that Emi displays now at work while still in utero. Especially the lip smacking and eye rubbing. While it’s all fuzzy and not the clearest of images, I can see my little girl in that alien-form head that is shown in this video.

I remember just sitting and watching this video when Sara first gave it to me (in its unedited 15-minute form; you’re welcome) and I remember how fascinated I was by it. Turns out, it was nothing compared to the real thing. That little girl has become my weakness, but truth be told if one had to choose their own Kryptonite, I could have made a far worse selection.

So many people go through life trying to find out why they are here, and what they are meant to do. I am lucky enough to have found a career that I truly enjoy and that keeps me stimulated and interested. I am lucky to have a great family, and an awesome wife that makes my existence much more tolerable than it would be without her. There are many people who never have these things despite a lifetime of searching.

But the first moment I held Emiko in my arms, that was when I knew why I am here, and what my purpose is.

I love you, Emiko.

-Matt

]]> https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?feed=rss2&p=131 3 No Baby Yet… https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=7 https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=7#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:35:45 +0000 Matt http://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=7 Ok, All,

No baby yet. Sara is in the hospital tonight and we begin induction drugs again at 9am (8PM EST). More information when we get it, but with the time difference, don’t expect anything until tomorrow your time.

M

]]> https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?feed=rss2&p=7 0 First Real Note https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=1 https://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=1#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:45:13 +0000 Matt http://blog.mattwhitaker.net/?p=1 Hey there. I’m not sure who, if anyone will be reading this, but I’m hoping to get this up and running soon as a way for everyone to be able to keep up with the goings-on of our lives over here in Matsuyama. Specifically the impending birth of our first child. Sara enters the hospital for labor induction on September 21, 2010, so the date is fast approaching.  Stay tuned, and hopefully I’ll get this running and the bugs worked out sooner than later. In the meantime, here’s the video of one of Sara’s ultrasounds!

Sara’s Ultrasound

M

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