Wait, wait, wait…
That’s probably getting a little ahead of ourselves at the moment as I, the Jester, will still be responsible for the upkeep of this kingdom. However, the prince has arrived. We know from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series that all things serve the beam… Well, in the matticus kingdom all things serve the prince even if he isn’t cognizant enough to realize or appreciate that.
So it goes. And so it should be.
But, how did we get here?
The wife had her first round of “can’t sleep through them anymore” contractions around 3:30AM on March 24th. They were sporadic in duration and time between them. We did our best to sleep between each one, with me helping her sit up and massaging her lower back during each one. We eventually got out of bed and went about our day as if everything was normal. Morning turned into afternoon and the contractions moved to a more consistent 15 minutes apart and around a minute long each for an hour or so. Then they tapered off again allowing the wife to catch a nap before late afternoon settled in.
As the sun went down the contractions came back stronger and more frequently and we called our doula to have her come over. Shortly after the doula showed up, the wife’s contractions moved from around the 5 minutes between they had been to 2 minutes and I called the midwife to let her know that things were starting to progress and she might want to come sooner rather than later. I may have said, “Come now!” but it’s all a bit fuzzy at this point.
After the midwife and her assistant showed up things got a bit hectic… There were a lot of people crammed into one section of our little condo, along with a lot of birthing accessories. However, everyone and everything had a purpose and worked together towards the same outcome. None worked harder the wife.
She labored on the birth ball. She labored in the birthing pool. She labored in the bed. She labored in a squatting position. She labored in our vanity area and at 2:14AM on March 25th she brought our son, our prince, into this world. Ten fingers, ten toes, some hair that may or may not be reddish in color, two eyes that will probably be blue like his parents, and a whole lot of cute. We’re talking internet crashing cuteness here. There may be a dimple involved…
Thanks again to my guest posters for picking up the slack around the kingdom the last few days. There are more lined up for next couple weeks too. I’ll pop in from time to time as I can to say hello to my faithful readers and post updates… but, since I’ve been meaning to type this up for 3 days now and am giving up nap time to do it, I can’t say with any certainty how often I’ll be popping in for awhile.
I know, I know. You’re thinking “But, you’re the jester, you’re supposed to be good at juggling things.” No doubt. But the best of us know that it takes practice to become good at anything. So, thank you all, faithful readers, for your patience while I pick up this new skill.
And when I’ve got it down? Oh, they’ll come from miles around to see the baby juggling jester…
“People will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.” – Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) – Field of Dreams
“You never got me down, Ray.”
🙂
Congratulations!!! 😀
Thank you Rara!
Outstanding!!!
Wife and kiddo certainly are.
Congrats!!!!
Thanks! 🙂
Congratulations sir!! 🙂
Thank you, thank you.
Y’all are blue?
Just kidding. I’m not going to pick on the punctuation of the sleep-deprived. Congratulations!
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yeah… I knew it didn’t look right, but at the same time putting in the apostrophe seemed wrong too. In my defense, I was very tired when I wrote this… Actually, not a lot has changed in that regard sense. 😛
Congrats!
Thank you! 🙂
Yay DJ!! Wonderful news, great post. Birth is the most life-changing thing I’ve ever experienced. Your little guy sounds so gorgeous he could eclipse the sun!
Ooo, eclipse the sun? Perhaps… He’s still really little though, give him some time… 😉
Thanks for the details, i enjoyed them, oh yes, they will come. Great Aunt Leslie approves of the prince of cuteness.
You are invited up when ever you want. 😀
Congratulations to you and the mom!
Thank you 😀
Congrats Matt. You are going to be a great Dad. 🙂
I’d settle for adequate. I’d settle for for my best. I aspire to be great. Perhaps just attempting my best ensures that I will be great… We shall see. Thank you JD.
Congratulations to all of you. May he grow to be healthy and happy with the gifts to love, laugh and learn.
Thank you for the well wishes! 😀
It’s a very special time. Cherish every moment of it. The kingdom will survive.
It has so far, much to wonderful people like you who stopped by and shared some words with my faithful readers. Thank you, Tony.
Wow! Superenthusiastic congratulations to you both! All three, actually. What am I thinking?
Adding in that plus 1 takes some getting used to. We’re still catching ourselves when we talk to others and I’m sure that will be the case for awhile. Thank you!
Congratulations! And now it begins! Enjoy every moment. They all pass by too fast.
Enjoyed every moment so far! Thanks! 😀
Hooray! That is wonderful! Congratulations!
Now … get all the sleep you can, whenever you can get it!
Hence the hiatus… yes, trying to sleep when the prince sleeps… not working out great all the time, but doing the best we can.
Congratulations to you and your wife!
Rather, to the proud parents!
😀 Thank you!
Way to go, dad! Congrats to you both and job well done! I forgot what day I am guest writing, I’ve been in SF for a few days…out of the loop, did I even have a specific date? Please refresh my memory if you have a minute!
PS We call my Angel Boy the “Prince” too. Too funny, now there’s another one!
Prince’s running amok. 😉
Congratulations!
😀 Thanks!
Congratulations, dear Jester! Hello, Little Prince!
Thank you! The prince says… well, he hasn’t said anything yet, but he grunted when I told him you said hello, and I’m pretty sure that meant he was saying hello back. 😉
Awwwww, congratulations! To you and your wife and a big happy birthday to the bedimpled prince. Uh oh, me thinks I feel the clucky hormone kicking in!
cluck, cluck, cluck… nothing wrong with that kicking in from time to time. Thank you!
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Congratulations Matt!
Thank you, thank you. 😀
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! I’m so happy for your little family. Cherish it and relax ~
Relax? Hmm… I got the cherish part down, but not doing so great at the relaxing yet… That will come with time though, right?
Why do I hear every parent there has ever been laughing in the background…?
I love it when we worry about when they are awake and then we worry about when they sleep ‘too much’….then we get our heads on straight….remember this mantra: Everybody loves a sleeping baby”
And “never wake a sleeping baby.” That one’s hard to follow.
Congratulations!!
Thanks!!
Congrats, DJ! You now have an entirely different life!
Entirely different is an understatment… And I just added a plus 1… can’t imagine adding two at once…
Yah, it was a blur.
Congrats, man. You’ve now become unimportant to the people around you unless you have the baby with you.
Hilarious… and completely true. The wife and I are mere after thoughts whenever people come over. How’s the baby? Can we hold the baby? Where’s the baby? And then an hour later, “oh, and how are you?”
Awesome!!!! Congratulations to you, your wife and loved ones! Such a miracle to bring a new soul in this world.
Enjoy each moment! 🙂
Thank you!
Congratulations to you and your wife and welcome to the new Prince! 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
Congrats!!!
Thank you!!!!
Hands down my friend. I have been away for a week. YOUR post, just made my life okay again. Congrats to you the wifey. I am sooooo happy for the two of you. Hugs and love my friend, to you and new family!
Thanks for the hugs and love, right back at ya! 🙂
Congratulations!! And welcome to parenthood. It’s the best thing ever (also the hardest, but there you go 😉 )
The things worth doing often are harder than the things not worth doing. 😉
What joy!!!! Looking forward to some pics of the new prince.
Yes, joy… there is a lot of that… it could also be insomnia… but, I’m pretty sure it’s joy. 😉
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Congratulations!
Thanks!
A very belated congratulations! He’s adorable and love “the Prince,” much more appealing than “the Beast.” Then again, it was and often still is a most fitting appelation. We look forward to meeting him…the Beast would love to do a photo session when you are up to it. Hope we will see all three of you in CG this August!
Hoping to make it up to CG for sure, just not sure when yet. The beast is welcome to do a photo session whenever she wants… You are all welcome up whenever you want to make the drive. We’ll be here.
Congratulations!!!
Thank you! 🙂
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Thank you!!
🙂
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I was wondering when the prince would be arriving 🙂
Thank you! He has fairly good timing, showed up only 2 hours after his due date. Spent the last five weeks taking care of him and mom and settling into some semblance of a routine, and am just now getting back into the swing of things.
Congratulations on the dimpled prince! I await your first post regarding being peed on while changing a diaper (it has to happen at least once, I think it’s a rule of child raising)!
Once? Once a night is more like it… he’s a tricky little prince that’s for sure. You think you’ve got him covered, and then he shows you that you don’t.
LOL!
Congrats!
Good work – both of you!
Thank you!
Yay, well done Mummy and Daddy 🙂
Thank you! 😀
Two hours and fifteen minutes from being born on the best day of the year…or second, if you want to count Christmas.
Just joking. Congrats! And yes, I realize I’m popping up at random parts of your blog with no warning. So…watch out. I may or may not be back soon.
}:-}
Thank you! And random popping about is the best kind! I’ll see you if I see you. 😉
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