Amos Lee – Colors
12.5 weeks you say? Another lady doctor appointment down you say? A role model in your life passes away you say? Been a pretty interesting day to say the least. Last night we found out that Steve Jobs of Apple passed away after prolonged health issues. I took a shot of Jameson, said thanks the best way I knew how on my iPad, and woke up this morning eager to hear my baby’s heartbeat again, which by the way is only 150 beats per minute now. My wife was nice enough to tell me that we could now throw “Steve” and “Apple” into the options for names. But while I’ve always and will always been a dedicated Apple fanboy (and hopefully one day an employee), those names probably won’t make it to the semifinals of what I’m calling “WrestleNamia”.
Baby D on the other hand is “growing leaps and bounds” yet again, about the size of a peach or other midsized fruit that you may like to use as a reference. This is the one food reference that isn’t ruining one of my favorites like the previously mentioned small bear like candy. I’m thinking as long as they don’t say the baby is about the size of a pizza at any point I should still have some foods left that I can eat.
So while I was a little disappointed not to get a new picture today, I have to say that the excitement is still there when the nurse says that everything is looking great and that your wife is “extremely healthy”. When that little heart starts beating into the microphone, you get to sigh in relief that there is still something there to be excited about even when you are having a pretty crappy day.
All in all, while one person has left this world a little bit better than when they got there, you can only hope that your child will think the same of you one day. Someone once said that they saw an Apple commercial with a grandfather seeing his grandchild for the first time using FaceTime on the new iPhone, and after the commercial ended, even after the Apple Logo had flashed on the screen and they were well into the blaring advertisement for Oxy Clean, they still didn’t feel like they had just seen a commercial for technology. They saw a commercial celebrating life, and giving people the tools to do that the best way they could when they needed it. That was Steve’s legacy, and something that I hope my child learns from things that I do. Until that day I get to enjoy the little things, even if it’s just a small rapid beat from some piece of technology.
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