Enjoy the Little Things...

I have found that the highlight of every day involves the same two events. I walk through the door and speak to my wife and she tells me about her day. Then, I sit down and speak to my son and he talks (babbles) to me, telling me about his day. I look into his face as he gets so excited to see me and I feel love in a way that I have never felt it before. It is in that moment every afternoon I realize that I would take no riches, fame, or success for a lifetime filled with those moments. My wife, my son, my life and I would have it no other way. I have found that on an emotional level that I have been wholly unprepared for the way fatherhood changes not just one's life, but existence. I find the little things are the most difficult to handle... Every morning when I get ready to leave for work I walk by him lying asleep and find it hard to not stop and stare. Or in the afternoons or weekends when he is talking to me with so much enthusiasm and I know I need to fix a bottle or do some other task to make sure he is taken care of but I can't turn away from just listening and talking to him. These little things are the things that I cherish and hope that I will always feel this way. It truly is one of the greatest feelings I can inagine. My wife, gets most of the credit though. She is the one who gets up with him at night and cares for him all day with no thought of herself. I can think of no other person I would rather travel through life with than my wife, Happy Anniversary (on Thursday) for our 4 years of marriage! I truly cannot wait for the future, as we celebrate Xander turning 3 months old later this month and for all the memories to come. Life truly is great...