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It was really dumbfounding to see them take this ultrasound picture. We watched the baby kicking his/her legs and moving around his/her arms. The baby was really just going wild in there. I attribute it to the baby having a runner for a father.
Seeing such life can't but help you recognize your own humanity. As I'm looking at the pictures, I keep thinking back to what family and friends with children have told me about babies:
"Their lives are about eating, sleeping, pooping and crying--and they mainly cry about the first three."I tried to think about at what point my life I became a "me." When did I develop a personality? What will this baby remember, if anything of the first few years which will be so stress filled for Mimi and I?
And it reminds me of my own mortality. We went and spent an hour with a lady from New York Life last week. Her mother died when she was young so she had pretty wild story about why people should have life insurance.
She asked us how much we were worth. Once I realized what she was asking, I felt embarrassed about my answer--but I assured her I was a Wal-mart bargain.
Most of her lingo about the investment angle of it went over my head. I asked if this was a better bargain than buying lotto tickets and she assured me it was. We cut her a check.
PS. Mimi and I will share some ultrasound pictures here on the blog, but we won't share them on Facebook because that would be classless. So much more mature to put them on a blog accessible to the entire world.
