Baby: Part Deux 2

After our son was born I cut the cord. The nurse was warned about my possible passing out so she asked me 1,200 times afterwards “is daddy ok?” I was totally fine. I moved to the warming station and just stared at my boy. It was so cool seeing him for the first time!
The nurse was checking him over and was relaying all the critical info to Tova.
She said “you have a healthy baby boy. He has 5 fingers, 5 toes, and …”
She looked the baby, looked at me, then looked at Tova and paused. Then she said
“And he has blonde hair?!?!?!”
She then looked at the baby, looked a me, and looked at Tova one more time trying to figure this all out. I am fairly certain she was waiting for a Jerry Springer moment. Then Tova, about 5 feet away said
“REALLY? DANIEL! WHO HAVE YOU BEEN HANGING OUT WITH?!”
There were about 8 people in the room and everyone started cracking up. But, seriously, I would be lying if right then and there I starting wishing I paid more attention to that whole punit square thingy in my basic biology class :-p
But in all honesty, even though the nurses were looking at our brown hair and trying to figure out what the deal-i-o was, I knew that me being 1/2 irish was the answer.
I stayed in a lil longer and then realized I had my daughter and pops waiting for some kind of update.
I headed towards the waiting room and opened the large doors and E started running towards me. My dad looked at me with a sense of anticipation in his eyes. I looked at him and with a serious tone, and even seriouser face said
“it’s a girl!”
My dad literally did a little hop in his seat, and with the most astonished look in his face belted out
“WHAT?!”
I then laughed rand told him it was a healthy boy, and I even cut the cord. (I hadn’t planned that at all, but it was awesome)
We waited a bit and at first intolroduced E to her lil’ bro. E immediatley said “BABY!” when she saw him. Then we introduced him to his paternal grandparents. It was a cool thing, for sure.
T and J stayed in the hospital two nights and went home not even 48 hours later. My mom stayed for a bit to help ease the transition and it’s been nothing but sleepless bliss since.
Tomorrow* another post