First Entry, about 12 weeks behind

Right at 24 hours from now, our little boy will be 12 weeks old. Wyatt Allen Parrish was born on April 2, 2007 at 11:07pm. He weighed in at 7 lbs 15 ozs and was 20-1/4 inches long. As everyone told us he would, the little guy has completely changed our lives.

For the last 12 weeks we've been meaning to start this blog, but the days have quickly slipped away and we are finally getting it going. We'll try to keep the updates regular so our friends and relatives can check in whenever they want to see Wyatt growing and his parents marveling at his progress.

Lucky little Wyatt is fortunate enough to have 6 first time grandparents and 2 first time great grandparents who share in our joy of his arrival. My parents, along with DeeDra's mom, stepdad, dad, stepmom, granddad and grandmom were all incredibly excited to hear that DeeDra and I were expecting a child... and all a bit relieved as well. DeeDra and I both waited long enough to convince our parents and grandparents that they'd never have any grandchildren. Wyatt was worth the wait and he's charmed us all. It's hard to describe the joy he brings to the family. I've never seen smiles bigger than those of our family when they see little Wyatt smiling back at them or sleeping peacefully. They even smile when he's crying out for food or when they're changing a messy diaper... now that's true love!

This is the beginning and we'll update with photos and entries as regularly as Wyatt lets us.

For now we'll leave you two images. The top one is Wyatt sleeping during his first night outside of mama's belly. The image to the right is of DeeDra and Wyatt on April 4th, just before we left the hospital to head home.