I made this!

Okay, so I had some help. It was exactly 7 years ago today that I produced this child from my very loins. Yes I did. And you may notice that his head is the size of a large melon. It was off the scale since the day he was born- September 10, 2001 at 12:30 in the morning. He weighed 8 pounds and he was 19 inches long. He was a chubby thing with a round, large head.

He was an adorable baby. Okay, not at first. 2 hours of hard pushing a Charlie Brown head out a small opening left Joshua with a puffy, featureless face with eyes that he refused to open. He didn't get cute till he was a week old.

Still, I recall being in the hosptial, the morning after he was born. I was enthralled with this scrap of life that I, yes I, had brought into this world! This miraculous thing had happened to me. The nurses came in and mentioned that I might want to turn on the news. I did. I am a little embarassed to say that I watched the news but didn't grasp what was happening. I guess no one did at first, but I was wrapped up in my tiny bundle of life, and I wasn't really interested in the fact that planes were crashing into things and that other people were dying.

During the next few weeks I got to see every second of news coverage, as they showed it over and over again. As a new mom, I was up all hours of the night. Joshy ate frequently, and at night it was always 2 hours- 30 minutes to feed him, 30 minutes to play and then an hour of trying to get him to sleep while he puked all over me. So I watched a lot of tv.

As the country remembers 9/11 tomorrow, it still pales for me in comparison to the wonderous thing that preceeded it. My very first child, who started me on this incredible journey of motherhood. This amazing child who makes me cards and wrote me the funniest poem. This kid who is excited to get to bed so he can stay up reading, who takes care of his sisters, who has the softest peach-fuzz hair, who loves garlic pasta, likes to "extercise" and read on the elliptical machine, and makes up funny lego stories involving guns and destruction. That's my boy!

Happy Birthday Joshua!