Payoff

Let me start with the best part:

Things move unbelievably fast in baby world.  He is just over 8 weeks old, but the changes day to day are tough to document if you don't...document it.

MWF and I had a project for a little bit (I think we made it all of about two weeks) to take a picture of the boy every day.  The idea, and it's an obvious one, is that being so involved with him we won't note the big changes.  They will sneak up on us, like the proverbial thief in the night (but the opposite), and we will look up one day and the boy will be able to do all kinds of stuff that he couldn't before.  Plus, he's changing (and being changed, natch) constantly, and will continue to for the next couple of decades.  Better to have more than my memory to remember the boy's tiny time.

Living in Germany, and harboring some pretty serious Porsche lust, I was talking to some colleagues about a show I had seen on TV here.  It was a standard weekly car show, but the focus was on Porsche models, specifically the GT3 RS.  There was also another, aftermarket, version featured, with 660+ hp.  The deal was, they showed the car being driven on the autobahn, with some commentary, and you could just see the car not even hesitate at the 300 kph limit.  It just kept going.  Insane.

Anyway, I was talking about this show to some of my colleagues during a team event we had last week.  One of my colleagues had previously worked in an auto shop, and had the opportunity to drive some seriously insane cars.  As I was talking about how scared I got driving at 240 kph (and seriously, it was terrifying), he was talking about how at 270 kph, he felt like the road narrowed down to a tunnel.

I say all this as a way of saying that it is just the same with the boy.  One the one hand, they come out, and they are these tiny, squalling things.    They fill your heart up, though, and make it bigger, and keep doing it, and I find that, small as he is, my world often narrows to just him and he is all I can, or want to, concentrate on.  And it is the most unbelievable thing in the world.