With arms wide open...

Well kiddo there you are. I am sorry that I have not been writing a lot the last year. I just got a bit lazy with updating the blog.

Needless to say the last year or so has been a bit crazy. Most of it is just dealing with work and trying to find a way to bring you into our family.

But to be honest today was the greatest day of my life. It was amazing to see you and find out that your heart is healthy and everything is going great. I was so worried about your heart I couldn't even think about it. Me and your mother have been praying every night that you would be ok. Today we found out that our prayers have been answered. So far so good.

It was so cool to see you today. I wish I could describe how I feel right now. I can not wait to meet you and have you meet us. You are just amazing. But I have to be honest. I have no idea how to be a dad. I am more than a little nervous about it. But you and I will figure it out together. I have been doing my homework though you should be excited about that. Your mom will also be around to help. I have learned amazing things about you so that I will be ready to be a dad. This is a list of a few amazing things I have learned since I found out you were coming.

1. For the first few days of you life you will be pooping Marcanioum. This was shocking news to me. I don't know what marcanioum is but I can't wait to gag and throw up in my mouth as I wipe the sticky tar off of you. It's gonna be great. Promise :P

2. A crib costs hundreds of dollars and does not come with a matress. This for me was like finding out I just bought a car wtihout an engine.

3. Two words: Baby Bjorn This is a fantastic invention that will allow me to carry you around on on my stomach. I think it was designed on a concept based on a kangaroo. Like someone was walking around carrying their baby and thought hey.... If I had a pouch I could use hands for other things... like installing apps on my iphone.

4. The birth will involve poo.

Any way I promise I will update the blog more as we move through the pregnancy and get closer to getting you here. The biggest thing I can promise is that You will be loved more than you will ever know. I am so excited about getting you here I could burst. I know your mom is too. Ok you mother is getting a bit annoyed at the time I am taking to do this so I will add more soon.

Dad

Oriole magic

Well I know alot of you are expecting a great comeback to humor filled exciting columns with death defying comedy.  But this is not that.  This is more me putting on paper a feeling I have so that I can look back and say see I told you ... or damn I am the dumbest person alive....  So here goes .. the Baltimore Orioles are going to turn it around this year.  What that means I do not know.  There have been 12 losing seasons here in Bmore with our O's.  But I just have a very strange feeling about this season.  I cannot explain it.  It's actually kinda creeping me out as I have never in my life really cared at all about baseball other than something to do with my dad.  But I just have this feeling... Like I did with my Steelers that there is something going on here this year with this team.. Don't get me wrong I am NOT saying we are going to the World Series or even the postseason.  What I am saying is that 3 years from now when that could happen we are going to look back on 09 as the season it started to turn around.  

It is very strange.  Normally when Football ends it's on to hockey but for some strange reason less than a week after my Steelers won the Superbowl I am walking around in O's gear chomping at the bit for baseball.  I cannot explain it at all.. Normally I would still be basking in the glow of Sixburgh... but for some reason I feel like the O's have a summer of magic in store and I am so excited to be apart of it.  I have already driven my wife and most of my family nuts with this so I am putting this here so that if this truly is the magic season I think it will be I can look back on it and say .. I told you.  

Love you guys

GO O's ... This is Birdland

Doan