I can't believe Pax is almost 5 months old now.  It is incredible to watch him interact with people and see his whole body squirm when he smiles.  It won't be long until he is walking.  He hasn't really got the crawling thing yet - he scoots around a lot with his head on the ground, but he can pull himself up and stand.  It seems like he was born yesterday and time has flown by.  I am sitting here watching the Democratic National Convention (note: I am not a democrat or republican) and listening to Joe Biden's acceptance speech.  I don't know much about Biden, but his son introduced him and testified of his father's selfless love for his family - how he turned down the senate because his sons were in the hospital, how he made the 4 hour round trip to Washington and back to Delaware every day so he could be a father to his children.  

I want to be the type of father that doesn't pursue the position of influence to do good, but rather pursues to be present and use the influence inherent in fatherhood to show my love for Morgan and Pax.  So far the pursuit of that has had many detours, but every mile makes the destination clearer and more urgent.

Posted In: life baby

Bookmark This Article: Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Stumbledupon

(This video is about 56mb, so it may take a minute or so to load.) 

After weeks of anticipation we discovered that we are pregnant with a boy!  We were really expecting another girl, so this came as quite a surprise.  I felt a little more comfortable having another girl because we already had some practice with Morgan.  But now I am a little more nervous.  I feel like Sarah  will have a little more influence in Morgan's life as she gets older, and now I will have a little more influence in the new baby's life.  Maybe that is just the remnants of a sexist culture I haven't quite flushed out of my system.  Maybe it is because I am a man and know what it is like to be a boy.  With a girl I could just be blissfully ignorant.

We haven't really even talked about boy names.  Elijah keeps coming up, but I am not quite sold on doing the whole Biblical name thing yet.  If it was a girl Sarah almost had me sold on Rahab Magdeline - the two prostitutes associated with Jesus.  That would have been a very good counter-cultural, upside down grace kind of name.

I mentioned  Pax to Sarah the other day and she seemed to like it.  Pax is latin for Peace.  It would be really cool to have the first and middle name a combo dedicated to the peace of a certain region, like  'Pax Darfur' or 'Pax Iraq'.  However, I found out from a friend that Pax is also Angelina Jolie's kid's name.  We would be taking a chance if we went with Pax.  You never know what Angelina's kid will turn out like.  However, if we had a really good middle name too we could change horses if we saw your typical child-star personality emerging from Pax Jolie.  

Maybe, 'Elijah Pax'.

Posted In: life baby

Bookmark This Article: Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Stumbledupon