Pater: Introducing AJ2!!!

Posted by Pater , Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:00 AM

Welcome to the world, AJ2. We've been expecting you for some time!


At first all we saw was this (13 weeks)......and then this (19 weeks)...

In the "outside world", we knew something was happening by week 33...

...and yet you seemed so content where you were, that by week 38 Mater decided it was time to serve an eviction notice. In her legal application to the courts, she claimed you were trespassing on her sciatic nerve, and partying on her bladder til the wee hours of the morning, causing her to wake up every hour on the hour. The courts ruled in her favour and so off we trundled to the hospital (yes, that is the court order Mater is holding in her hand)...

At 14:14 on November 14th 2011 you were born (we didn't check beyond minutes, but have decided to spook people out by saying that it was at 14 seconds). Pater never knew that Avocados could grow in such cold climes as Canada and yet you came out at a strapping 8 lbs 7 oz.

And, it turns out, you are a boy. Okay, yes, the signs were there, so we shouldn't have been surprised. But come on, who believes in old wives' tales like "Mater's carrying in front, it must be a boy" and "Mater's kept all her beauty, it must be a boy"? Well, actually, now the Hass Avocados do!

Within minutes, you were cleaned up and handed to Pater and Mater (a novel approach considering the experience we went through with AJ1 (see earlier posts)).

Four hours laters, you were showing off to the world what a content, quiet baby you can be. We know the tranquility won't last for ever, but we're enjoying what we can get while we can get it. And if you should bear any grudges for your rude eviction from the warmth and security of Mater, please remember who kicked you out!



AJ2, we're all overjoyed that you've finally joined our family. AJ1 will be meeting you tomorrow but how that relationship goes is for future posts (hopefully not alone the lines of Cain and Abel). For now Pater is enjoying sitting in our hospital room - admittedly on the most uncomfortable chair known to man - while Mater rests and you softly moan in your sleep having eaten your fill, been bathed, and done your first ever poo (for which the clean up operation was akin to post-Exxon Valdez but with fewer dead seagulls). As birthday presents go (yes, Pater was also born on November 14th), it's hard to imagine a better gift. Sleep well, AJ2 and know that your parents love you very much.

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