Pure Joy

I'll add to what Kari already said and the pictures below. In trying to describe the experience from Tuesday's doctor's appointment, the only two words that keep coming to mind are PURE JOY. I don't know how any other father experiences hearing a heartbeat and seeing his future child. But that's how this future father did. I've tried to think of what else I've done that compares to it but I'm not sure that anything does. It was the excitement of beating Lee at Lee, the level of emotional experience on our wedding day, and the anticipation of when we first saw Gus at the SPCA but couldn't take him with us all rolled into one experience. That's the best I know to describe it and it was beyond that, but that's the best I got. We will try to do better with our blog but it was hard to write about anything else and we would not allow ourselves to write about being pregnant until we were through that first appointment. We'll do better now, though, with boring basketball stories to come.
-Jimmy