Tiny Walden

Here is one of my first pictures where I am holding Walden!  I can't believe how small he was.  He is now more than twice as heavy and much larger.  Also, I can't believe how swollen my hand was, ahh!  Thankfully I can wear my wedding ring again - progress!  I remember that when we were in the hospital, I just wanted to look at him forever and ever.  I didn't even want to fall asleep.  Nowadays I still love looking at him, but I don't have any trouble with wanting to sleep, haha!

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  1. KulioMay 20, 2017 at 5:01 AM

    I love that -- I love how this brings back so many memories for me. I tried explaining that feeling of just not getting enough of seeing the baby in the hospital to one of my kids. With Michael I remember his birth of course and it was all very wonderful when I first met him, etc, but you know, you're TIRED at that point. They took him out for his bath and transferred me to a different room (this was back before they did all that in the same room) and I got there and waited...and waited...and then I started to get this anxious feeling and finally they brought him to me all clean and wrapped up and after spending an hour just staring at him THAT's when I was sort of overwhelmed with a feeling of love. For me it wasn't this instantaneous thing when he was born - my best description is "falling in love" - that sort of feeling of joy and wanting to be with that person all of the time, that just gradually happened in the next few hours. :)

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  2. mrc-wMay 20, 2017 at 5:48 PM

    Aw, I love that story! I love hearing about your babies when they were babies! :)

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