It's starting to become more real!
I can't be faulted for not totally getting it yet, right? The whole 'I'm going to be a father' thing?!? It's so real for the mother who is experiencing real symptoms all the time, but for the daddy it remains abstract. Slowly but surely, though, it's coming into focus for me. The first step was seeing the little parallel blue lines on the pregnancy test thingie. That was pretty real. The next step was going with Hilary to our 7-week ultrasound and hearing the thump-thump, thump-thump, 123 beats per minutes. Now that was real. A heart!! No magic plastic stripe thingie, but a real little human organ. My friend Mike who has a 3-month old told me that what made his impending fatherhood really real for him was when he first felt kicks from his little 'tacker' Jack from inside his wife Kelly when she was spooning him in bed. And that's still months away! Daddy's so excited about experiencing all these steps with Hilary over the next 7 months!