If someone were to ask me to describe pregnancy I think I would liken it to be beaten with a blunt object for nine months. I don’t have a fun time being pregnant. But what is remarkable to me is that when it is over, it is over, as in g-o-n-e. All the hard times swept away by the wonder of a newly born human being.

We made it to the other side. And on the other side of nine very long months came our baby boy,

Ellis Kai Dawson

Stats:

Born May 7th at 9:55am, 8 lbs, 20 inches

Blue eyes, strawberry blond hair

Now 90th % for weight and height

TOTALLY 100 % AWESOME!

A few months ago I started reading Georgette Heyer novels. (They kept me sane during the months and months of insomnia which accompanied this pregnancy.) Heyer owns the Regency novel – she wrote 20 of them (I’ve read 10 of them to date) and a “Nonesuch” is a man who is a paragon among men. That’s what I think of my baby boy. This kid is a dream.

Eats like a champ, zero colic, great snuggler, good-natured, strong (he was trying to hold his head up on the first day of life!), he is constantly cooing — which melts my mommy heart — and we are simply in love with him.

His dad and sisters are smitten.

Smitten, I tell you!

He is a keeper!