Dad Life

Wow!!  Just absolutely amazing.  What can I say after a year and a half of being a dad, it is absolutely the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Maybe sliced bread is a bad analogy.  I mean is sliced bread really that great?  My wife is a great bread slicer, in her own right, so maybe that is where it comes from, because my wife is pretty great!

I see that I have not posted since prior to Finn being born, and I must say that every day is truly a blessing.  I was quoted as telling people that it is like having the best video game ever.  But in all actuality is much better that a video games.  Nissa is finding that video games probably head butt less.

From the second that we got him home every day was a different "WIN".  From seeing his bright shiny face at 2:00 in the morning, for a diaper to be changed, or that first sneeze, to that not so popular spit up all over my Miami Dolphins T-shirts.  Although I guess he knew that the Dolphins have PUKED it up the last several years.

My buddy Chris and his wife just had their first two weeks ago, and I recall the advice that I gave him, as I thought back to Finn being born.  Every day for the last month, I was a nervous wreck.  I questioned everything about parenthood and I was completely wigged out.  What are we going to do if he cries at night?  What are we going to do if he gets sick in the middle of the night?  What are we going to do, the first time he pees on us?

The plan that we had put in place when the time came, did not happen AT ALL!! Nissa never had an opportunity to take that shower she was going to take prior to going to the hospital.  There was no nice easy ride to the hospital.  Finn said "JUMP" and we both said How High?  We were at the hospital before I had time to breathe, and every question that my beautiful wife and I had the millions of questions we had, seemed less relevant.  We were as they say In The Moment!!  Those questions never arose after that.  We were in for the long haul, and we have never looked back.

Every day we get to wake up and Finn is chatting it up in his crib, caring on a conversation with his books and stuffed animals.  The last year and half has gone so fast!  I have been through two football seasons as a coach, and to see him show up on Thursday nights or Friday nights just for a few minutes before my games was the world to me.  Seeing him take it all in on the field during pre game,  checking out the players, running with the football, ordering the players around,  those times are amazing.   I can get upset when Notre Dame loses or Miami loses, but its all over in a split second as he comes in and grabs my legs to get up and pushes me under the table to play E I E I O.

Daddy life is indeed a great life.  It is hard work, but I find myself doing things I never did before he was born, and I am ok with it.  Till next time, Daddy's Rule!!