On Friday I posted about the birth of our third child and since then I’ve had some time to reflect on our new reality. I realized that Michelle and I look at little Adelyn totally differently. For Michelle, she sees an adorable little baby girl who can wear bows and headbands of all sorts of creativity. For me, I see a little girl that will wrap my emotions around her finger, argue with me when she’s a teenager, and cause me all sorts of stress as she begins to date and then I eventually have to give her away to another man (who may not even be alive yet).

Different—to say the least. It’s kind of like this:

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I normally post parenting/family stuff over at my blog for dads, but I hope you’ll indulge me this time.

Michelle and I are proud to announce the arrival of our third child! Little Adelyn was born this morning at 6:24am and weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces. She has been totally chill. Adelyn and Michelle are doing terrifically.

Here are a few photos:

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I remember our Sunday evening conversation vividly.

“What do we have going on this week?”

“Monday night… plans; Tuesday night… plans; but Wednesday night we don’t have anything.”

It didn’t turn out that way.

My sister came over Wednesday evening and we kicked it off right: pizza and swimming. Gavin was loving the pool and finally Michelle went inside and laid Madsen down for the night around 7pm. We started drying off and getting ready to come in and put Gavin to bed around 7:30pm when I tried to open our sliding glass door only to find that it was locked. Somehow it had clasped shut.

Since we were swimming, our phones and keys were all inside. Panic time.

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