Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Hallelujah

I have to admit that going to bed last night, I was a little bit freaked out. I was going over the songs (in my head) that Johhny Cash would have penned memorializing Rowan's funny looking head challenged appearance. I walked through the halls of the maternity ward and poured over all of the pictures looking for one picture of a baby with such a jacked up noggin--none to be found. I self rationalized that surely one of those babies had to look like Rowan Lewis upon delivery and that they Photoshopped those pictures or worked wonders with their little caps. I went back to the room, and the boy's head still looked like a big football on his little body. As I dozed in and out of nocturnal delirium, I comforted myself by flashing images of Hollywood's less beautiful men: Steve Buscemi, Leonard Nemoi, or Clint Howard.

Lo and behold, this morning I awoke to a head less deformed, a face less bruised, and an appearance that is proudly Floyd. Was it all a dream? Did the boy ever look so alien-like? Was this all distortion of the contact labor buzz? As we know, time is a great healer, and hallelujah this boy looks normal.

They have taken the boy for circumcision, I will post some photoshopped pictures later.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations to the family! What a truly precious little baby!!!

Dorry you are such a trooper! And look how happy the whole family is.
Congratulations!!!!!

Lindsey

Anonymous said...

That is one nice looking naval he has there.......obviously he is not going to take after his father......

floyd said...

We scheduled a belly button-echtomy to occur simultaneously with the circumcision...

Anonymous said...

He's precious! When my daughter was born, after a similar three hours of hell, the doctor stuck a suction cup on her head, put her foot up on the bed, grabbed a hold of the t-grip and leaned back! Liz's head looked like a mushroom cap. Her (loving) father's first words were "It's a girl!". His second were "Her head's not going to stay like that, is it?" (It didn't) Just keep the hat on for a few days...