Sleepy Pete's

Things may have not gone as planned, but everything worked out in the end. That’s what’s important after all. Holding out till induction, the little man had me prepared early with a hospital bag of my own. I had my Nikon D90 and my iPad synced up with some Kindle books that I had been reading. The day of, I decided that I needed to bring along my keyboard, because I just ‘knew’ that I was going to do some writing while I was around. Yeah, right. So what ended up happening? Not exactly what I planned on.

We ended up sitting in the waiting room because of an ‘error’ in scheduling. During that time I read some books on my iPhone, and looked at Facebook. After several hours, we made our way back into our delivery room and I busted out the iPad. Suffice to say, the best laid plans… With the wife’s mother and aunt hanging out, I didn’t really do what I set out to do. I tried to read but there was too much going on in the room for me to concentrate on reading. Sadly, I did what most of America does at times like these; played Angry Birds.

As we came closer to the golden hour, I pretty much stopped paying attention to the tech <gasp> and started paying attention to life. I did have enough mindset to set up my iPad to record all the audio of the events to come and had it plugged up so it wouldn’t die on me. I also had my iPhone set up to record video of the event…a very long event. Looking back on it, it was actually pretty short, but at the time it was quite long. Right before the big moment, the wifey’s aunt (camera person) freaked out that the screen went off on the phone. At that moment I figured that the battery had died. After all, it had been recording video for an hour. I had her power it back on and start the camera up just in time to catch the magic moment. As the moment passed, 26 seconds worth, the phone quit and told me it had run out of room. Crisis averted.

For a brief moment, I tried to take some photos with the D90, but my heart wasn’t really in it. My MIL was taking photos the whole time, so I just left it to her capable hands. As I tended to the wifey, things were going on that I honestly can’t remember all that well. I started to tweet and text everyone that the little bundle of joy had arrived. After another hour or so, we finally got settled in to our postpartum room and I got to sit down for the first time in a few hours. Learning that there was indeed WiFi, (hidden so other people don’t mooch off it) I proceeded to send out some pictures to friends and family.

Sleep….or so I thought. Within an hour of finally getting to sleep, the little urchin was back with us to feed, and then we could finally sleep. Wrong again. Another hour and back in the room. I think we got about 3 hours of sleep that first night and don’t get me started about the sleeping arrangements.

**UPDATE**

I wrote those first few paragraphs over the first week that we were back home. Looking back on things that I didn’t think I had time to do, I really don’t have time to do now….this blog for example. Currently, the little man is asleep behind me in a swingy seat and the wifey is sleeping. I try to let her sleep since she is the one who tends to get up at night. This is the first time (that I can think of) that I have time AND enough of a mindset to write so I am going to try and take advantage of it.

Project Daddy is underway!