Sideline Grandma: The Little Bundle. More Sideline fun ahead.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

The Little Bundle. More Sideline fun ahead.

My sideline has enlarged and my heart has grown a ninth grandchild chamber. This grandson decided enough.

Enough! Enough with listening to his family through "a wall" he was ready to see them and start living outside the confines.
Three weeks before he was "due" he arrived.
And we're all glad he did. He's safe and healthy and growing. But he's small. Telling you, he's just so itty bitty, at 6 pounds 12 oz.. and with his legs pulled up to his tummy there's very little of him. Seriously.

Ever since The Reveal party in July we've known the baby was a boy. The Reveal party last July .. do you remember?
Remember how we could take a guess, boy or girl. Someone from the winning jar won a prize!

Wonder what the two grandpas guessed. (They look like mischief don't they?)

So we gathered, all the closest friends and many family members, awaiting the results of that week's ultra sound, the parents knew the results but they were not saying.
Each person could pick a cake pop from a serving tray.

One cake pop had been colored with blue or pink and someone would take a small bite and find a color. So, we were instructed not to stick the whole thing in our mouth. Just take a bite then look.

She did! And it was BLUE!!
And here he is!!
Born two weeks ago today, look at that little newborn with the eye drops giving him the bewildered look.

So cute though.. she said without prejudice.

"Mom,what did they do to my eyes, they seem to be stuck, was this supposed to happen?"

Oh, the sight of this wonderfulness! A swaddled newborn wearing a tiny cap knit by a thoughtful stranger.

Of a mommy ready to raise another son to be a kind and wise man.

And a dad proud to hold his third son, given the job of teaching him to love, to give, and be a responsible person one day.. and that's a job!
And a privilege.
And a joy.
And exhausting and hilarious, and .. all those things a parent experiences.
Like delight.