Dear Boo,

Here we are at the half-way point of your time inside Mama! Wow.

Today, Mama and Dada went in to the doctor’s office to do something very special. It’s called an “ultrasonograph,” and it’s a procedure that allows us to look inside Mama to see you and measure how well you are growing. This isn’t the first one you’ve had, but what made this one extra special is that you have grown so big that we can now tell if you are a boy or a girl.

And Boo, you made it very obvious that you are a… boy!

That means you are going to be Mama and Dada’s “son”, and Tucker’s “little brother”. You two are going to be so cute together, and we hope you grow up as the best of friends as well as brothers. He’ll have a lot he can help teach you, and I know you’ll share lots of fun experiences together.

What a day!

This week you’ve grown to the length of a banana! Bananas are actually Tucker’s very favorite food, and I bet you’re going to love them too. They’re full of good vitamins and minerals, so they don’t just taste good but they’re good for you too.

I can’t wait to meet you, son!

Love,

Dad

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It’s probably no secret that I watch a lot of Food Network, so it probably also comes as no surprise that my wife and I were among the people tuning in to (by which I mean “letting the TiVo record”) this most recent season of The Next Food Network Star.

We really liked several of the contestants a lot, but our favorite as time went on became Aarti Sequeira, the former CNN producer whose unique Indian heritage and childhood in Dubai led her to a passion for making Indian food more accessible. In the end, she won (YAY!) and her new show started last week, but she’s not exactly new to hosting a cooking show. Eager to try her hand at it, she and her husband started making their own cooking show and posting it online.

Incidentally, Tucker fell in love with her instantly. She’s second only to Elmo now, and if he recognizes the Food Network is on he’ll shout “AWTEE! AWTEE!”  It’s pretty dang cute.

All of that is to say that in reading through her website, I found this amazing looking recipe for baked samosas.

It was naive to think I really grasped God’s Love for me before our son was born.

I love my family, my wife, and bringing people joy.

But seeing and holding my son for the first time, I knew what it means when we hear of God’s Fatherly love for us, his children.

Unconditional. Everlasting. Love that cherishes, despite knowing our deepest faults. Love that means guiding us in directions we fear or don’t understand, because it’s what’s best for us.

I’ve heard that to be a parent is to have your heart walk outside your body.

That’s about right.

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