On Monday morning, September 29th 2008, at 2:37am (BST), my wife Catherine gave birth to James Cooper, our son, weighing 7lb 13oz. James is our first child, and so far parenthood is proving to be rather… surreal. You don’t really notice that anything has changed, until at some point you realise that almost everything has. Catherine and James came home from hospital today, and as I type this I’ve just finished bottle-feeding him, and he fell asleep against my shoulder as I quietly whistled “Sweet Baby James“. It’s difficult to explain how it feels being a Dad, but with moments like this, I think I’m going to like it.
There’s so much more I want to write, but at the moment I’m not sure what it is. So for the time being, here are some photos…
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Huge amounts of yay \o/ I’m so happy for you! :)
I was just wondering about the status of this project. “He hasn’t even blogged about it”, I said on #ukscene :) Glad to hear you had better things to do :)
Congratulation father!
Congratulation too and wellcome to club :)
Congratulations!
How long before icababy v2.0 will be released?
God bless James and his new family. I wish you .. merry christmas, health teeth, happy new year and grow baby grow! TDM
Congrats and stuff from me and Cpt Beacky.
Trust me it gets more surreal once you don’t know what time or day it is after you’ve been awake for 72 hours ;)
Congrats mate.
Congratulations ;-)
Congratz.
Greetz to You, your wife – and da baby.
Congratulations! I hope you’ll like being a dad as much as I do; our’s is 2 and a half now, and the second is on it’s way.
By the way: don’t give into clich?s like you will not have any more spare time in the future; my hobbies are getting more lovely by the day, although time is getting more precious when your family is growing ;)
Congrats Rob! Best of luck to you and Cath in parentsville! :D
Congratulations on your Mini Cooper.
Sorry, I wanted to write it in the card but couldn’t bring my self to do it – typing it seems a lot easier by comparison.
Congratulations, and welcome to long nights, but rewarding days!… :)
Congratulations, welcome to the world of fatherhood. Long nights, early mornings and lots of dirty nappies ;) But trust me, my first child is now 5 Months old – it does get easier and every day brings a new reward :D
Huzzah! Congratulations on the new arrival :-)
(would say something witty here, but I can’t possibly top the Mini Cooper comment. QGazQ, you win the internet.)
Best wishes to James! To you Icabod: Welcome into Dad’s club
Oh, I forgot. Damn me. So, congratulations on your new release ;) I hope James’ first computer will be Speccy.
Congratulations! :)