Aimee's kissing those babies.

I just walked in from watching Adam, Mikey, and Glenn play in their cover bands first gig and I walked in and, of course, having a couple beers makes me super sentimental.
Aimee was feeding Conner a late night, impromptu bottle. He'd waken up 3 hours to the minute since his last bottle. I walked in and talked to her a few minutes while he finished his bottle, and tiredly looked up and down at both of us, nodding off. I kissed them both and walked out, but right as I pulled the door shut, I paused and peeked in the door crack and looked at them both. Aimee was just looking right in that baby's eyes, as he was looking up at her.
She smiled, and pulled him up, kissing his forehead. It was deeply moving to me. She's so awesome. And our babies are so awesome.

Just wanted to write that before I forgot it.

Conner turns 6 months old today

   It's amazing to me how fast time flies. It seriously seems like yesterday that Aim was going into labor and we were on our way to the hospital to meet our newest addition. Unbelievably it's been 6 months. He's now old enough to pretty much stand on your lap when you hold him, facing towards you, and he just smiles and coos and laughs... The friendliness in his almond-shaped eyes, his forehead and eyebrows kind of scrunching upward as he just has this happy little look on his face. It melts me. It just hits you sometimes, looking at this little baby boy, and watching him start to develop these traits that you know will shape who he is. Watching a personality grow in this baby that, just months ago, was getting his first spongebath under an incubator lamp at 3 in the morning, in a room filled with a very tired mommy and grandparents and sisters and aunts...
   I'm lucky enough to be able to read to these kiddos almost every other night, and I remember rocking and singing Coop to sleep, though now he wants to stand or sit on the floor while you read - and he's getting very good at stalling when it's time to actually get in bed. We've moved onto bigger books, more words, more pages... And his little Sesame Street Beginnings books have inevitably been passed down to his little brother. Conner can now grab the books, and light up with excitement when he sees Big Bird or Elmo, following page to page and using his hands to swipe at the large colorful figures who smile back at him.
   Cooper lately has been taking note of the time when his whole family is in a room, and he'll say "We are all together...". He's said this at least 10 times since we've been at Mom and Dad's while our house is being remodeled. But it's such a huge statement. He's right. We are all together. It brings me back to when we were all together in my family, and when they were all together with their Moms and Dads, and so forth and so on. I know one day these kids will grow up. It's happening right before my very eyes. But right now, we are all together. And that's what matters the most.

I am the luckiest man on the earth, and being a daddy is the highlight of my life. The tears in my eyes are the testament. Thank you, God. So very very much.