THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2008

 As I write this, I have just crawled back into bed with my laptop. It’s not quite 8am and I’ve been lying awake for nearly two hours from a headache to awful to sleep through, but well managed with Sudafed, and now I’m so grateful to have spent this time awake and enjoying the sounds of the breaths of the two most wonderful men in the world. The bigger of the two of them is facing away from me; the littler of the two is swaddled and laying inches away with his sweet face slightly tilted my direction. I am watching little sleep grins cross his face even as I type. People tell you that you can’t ever get these moments back, and to enjoy it now; and I feel the fleetingness as I lay here and sense each moment whizzing by me. Daniel is 20lbs now. That’s twice his already massive birth weight. He has outgrown almost every piece of clothing that we had for him at birth, and I feel all too intensely how near these irretrievable moments are to over. POSTED BY EMILIE BROWN AT 8:02 AM