Wednesday, January 14, 2009

+ Welcome

Our newborn son is 2 weeks old today. He is so perfect in so many ways. I try not to constantly compare this newest addition to our family to Weston, almost exactly five years older, but 5 years between babies is long enough to forget everything about the first one. The new arrival has since allowed all these memories to come rushing back, and though they are very different, and unique individuals, it never ceases to amaze me how these two still do very similar things.

As for the comparisons, since we only had one child for five years, our house is full of picture frames of just Weston and us. Simple shots of Kari holding a newborn Weston in our kitchen the day we brought him home... I wanted to duplicate that shot with Ross, and I had to say no. I can't do that. Those are Weston's moments and Ross will have his own moments. Trying to duplicate everything we did with Weston is not fair to either one of them. It cheats Weston of his 'original' moments, and makes Ross's moments fabricated.

Everything has been so cool. Weston quickly recognized that his new baby brother can't be the playmate he wants for at least many more months, and he is kind and caring and concerned about his every cry. It is very cute. I took a week off of work for paternity leave, and it was hard going back to work. Kari is taking 2 months off but as a busy-body, she's going a bit stir crazy during the times he's sleeping.

During the 9-months of pregnancy and now seeing him, so complex and perfect, how he can live, breathe, survive, thrive in nothing but fluids all that time, then the instant he breaks free, and uses his lungs for the very first time...the power and design of God is so evident. I just don't see how Darwinists believe all this complexity evolved from sludge by chance. And if so, once maybe, but again and again and again? And in a way that you could end up having one 'male' and one 'female' occur by chance so as to facilitate breeding and expansion of the species? No way.

Anyway, that is a topic for later. We are all blessed and healthy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mark, thanks for the great post and update. You can duplicate some things but you are right to say you don't want to have a copy of Weston. Believe me, you will have so many differences you won't have to look far. Can't wait to see him!! Love, Marian