Our first year......

Sophie Rose and Isabelle Grace were born. I never thought that I could feel a love like I feel for my daughters. Unlike most parents, I didn't think they were perfect (heck, one of them looked like me) but they were cute as hell, and helpless to boot. It's a weird thing when someone else's life is exclusively in your hands. Both hands. Or both arms in my case. I look at the first picture I took with my daughters, and I had one in each crook of my arms. When my wife told me she thought she was pregnant I was disbelieving, hesitant, scared, stupid. Strangely, I felt more prepared to be a father when I learned that we were having twins. If I was going to do this, I may as well go all out...that's how I'd always lived. On my first date with my wife, I knew that she would be the one. Why waste time. We started dating in May, and were engaged in December. Back to the girls. Sometimes, I look at them really close. At their faces. And their eyes. The wonder in them. The happiness they feel when they discover something new. A window, their reflection. My nose (which has been Miss Belle's new thing). I think, how can their wonder be my wonder as well? How can I rediscover things? Am I rediscovering? Or am I actually seeing things clearly for the first time? They will be a year old soon, and before I had children, I swore that I would never say, " my kids are 12 months old" or " 13 months." They're ONE. From January 2, 2008 until January 2, 2009 my kids will be ONE. And now that I have kids, I'm sticking to it!