Eeexxxccellennnttt (tenting of fingers), I should get a patent or something...

Unrelated to my overall post, I've been meaning to get this photo off my phone and posted on the blog.  One morning before Katie was discharged from the hospital, they brought in our "daughter" Tommy.  Someone in the nursery got him all spruced up that morning.  The nurse was horrified when she brought him in and finally realized what was wrong.  Katie and I thought it was pretty funny - can't wait to show him when he's older.

This is Tommy today.  We're really blessed to have an easy-going, easy to please baby.  He loves to be held, and he loves his pacifier.  When he's fussy, just pop that thing in and he's happy.  Remove it, and its like pulling the pin on a little grenade.  He often needs it to calm down enough to fall asleep too, and occassionally needs it to stay asleep.  Katie and I (mostly Katie) have spent a couple nights holding that thing in his mouth - all night. 

His hands serve as poor substitutes.  He lets us know when his pacifier falls out of his mouth.  So, I'm guessing I'm not the first dad to think of this.  You know the story of the 3M post-it-note glue?  At first the scientist thought he'd come up with a worthless glue, until a new use dawned on him?  The glue was adhesive enough to stick, but not sticky enough to bond - viola - post it notes.  See where I'm going?  I should see about shmearing some of that glue on the inside of the pacifier flange to help keep that thing in baby mouths...  I should get a patent...  I'm like a genious or something.

Well, if not a genious, at least I'm a funny daddy !

In unrelated news, our nephew Henry took his first self-portrait tonight.  Not bad for about 3 months old!

Henry is following what appears to be a rich Heersink family tradition of amazing self-portraits.