Beginnings

Hello to everyone that's checking this out, and thank you for sharing this experience with us. Amanda and I both wanted to have a way for all of our family and friends to keep track of the new little guy in our lives. Thank you to everyone for all of your prayers, warm thoughts, and well wishes as they have certainly been taken to heart and appreciated over these past months, and particularly the last few days. We look forward to introducing him to all of you in person, but until then photos and video will have to do. I'll try and be faithful to updating this thing at least once a week, but no promises as our lives are crazier now than they've ever been.
So far, parenthood has been an amazing experience that continues to change how I look both at the world and at my wife. I am learning in my own fumbling and awkward way to be a good dad, but Amanda was born a mother. From the second John Dickson emerged she knew him, everything about him, and in the instant she first held him I knew that I am truly blessed to have this beautiful and gracious woman be the mother for my child. As much as I was unprepared for the beauty and fulfillment of marriage, parenthood has blown me away.