Gwen already has Keith wrapped around her little finger. They are currently sitting in the living room chair next to me. He is moving her hands around and talking about how she needs to practice her surgeon's knots. He is also pulling up on her arms periodically, making her flex her teeny tiny biceps (today, at her 1 week pediatrician appointment, she measured in at the 8th percentile for weight) and saying that she is going to get ripped. All the while he is throwing in some random Spanish words to try to make her bilingual...I'd better try to learn Spanish or they will start talking about me and I will have no idea.
He has several pet names for her already. The one that I have heard most often is hobbit. And yes, hobbit like the creatures of the Shire in Middle Earth. In all fairness, I told Keith we could watch whatever movies he wanted while he is on paternity leave and he chose the Lord of the Rings trilogy, so hobbits have been on his mind. He also calls her Gweny, Pumpkin (her jaundice made her look like a pumpkin until the last couple of days), and normal pet names like sweety, and honey.
He also has been doing major digital data accumulation in the form of photos and video. After the first day of Gwen's life Keith's parents said, "I think you have already taken more pictures of her than we took of you during your entire childhood." This is the beauty of having a digital camera. The first pictures that we have of Gwen are beautiful, whereas Keith's first baby picture makes it look like he was hit by a bus. While she doesn't really do anything yet, Keith loves shooting video of her "looking cute." When she is wide awake, right before eating, she looks like she has a smile on her face and talks constantly. We will likely end up with several hours of video of her cooing. As for pictures, we already have a few hundred. And not only is Keith taking pictures, but he is posting them to facebook. I think that in the entire time that Keith and I have been together he has only put a couple of albums on facebook. One album he added right after we began dating because I bothered him about not having the pictures. The second album he put up was from the night he proposed. Since he proposed I don't think he put up any albums until the night that Gwen was born. She had been alive less than 12 hours and he posted a 58 photo album.
Keith has never been a fan of newborns because he thinks that they are boring. We were baby sitting a couple of nights before Gwen was born and Keith said, "So what are we going to do with the baby?" I said that we would probably hold her and feed her for about an hour and then put her to bed (she is only a few months old). He then realized that at that point they don't really do anything. But things are different with daddy's little girl. He will just sit with her, look at her, and talk to her. I think he may now be a fan of newborns...at least our newborn.
He has several pet names for her already. The one that I have heard most often is hobbit. And yes, hobbit like the creatures of the Shire in Middle Earth. In all fairness, I told Keith we could watch whatever movies he wanted while he is on paternity leave and he chose the Lord of the Rings trilogy, so hobbits have been on his mind. He also calls her Gweny, Pumpkin (her jaundice made her look like a pumpkin until the last couple of days), and normal pet names like sweety, and honey.
He also has been doing major digital data accumulation in the form of photos and video. After the first day of Gwen's life Keith's parents said, "I think you have already taken more pictures of her than we took of you during your entire childhood." This is the beauty of having a digital camera. The first pictures that we have of Gwen are beautiful, whereas Keith's first baby picture makes it look like he was hit by a bus. While she doesn't really do anything yet, Keith loves shooting video of her "looking cute." When she is wide awake, right before eating, she looks like she has a smile on her face and talks constantly. We will likely end up with several hours of video of her cooing. As for pictures, we already have a few hundred. And not only is Keith taking pictures, but he is posting them to facebook. I think that in the entire time that Keith and I have been together he has only put a couple of albums on facebook. One album he added right after we began dating because I bothered him about not having the pictures. The second album he put up was from the night he proposed. Since he proposed I don't think he put up any albums until the night that Gwen was born. She had been alive less than 12 hours and he posted a 58 photo album.
Keith has never been a fan of newborns because he thinks that they are boring. We were baby sitting a couple of nights before Gwen was born and Keith said, "So what are we going to do with the baby?" I said that we would probably hold her and feed her for about an hour and then put her to bed (she is only a few months old). He then realized that at that point they don't really do anything. But things are different with daddy's little girl. He will just sit with her, look at her, and talk to her. I think he may now be a fan of newborns...at least our newborn.
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