the adams' blog

He’s here, and as far as we can tell he’s healthy.  He weighed 7lbs 2oz and was 18.5 inches long.

One of the first things I noticed about him when they held him up (see the gallery) was his blond hair!  Everybody was shocked by that, including me.  I mean, I know I was a blond-haired kid, and Jessica had blond hair when she was growing up, but I never thought Boston would have blond hair straight out of the womb.  Everyone [outside the nusery] could see his blond hair before he even had his bath, so after he actually got the bath, it was amazingly blond!  I think this is too neat, myself.  Maybe this will mean he’ll be a blond for life, instead of a blond that turns to some unknown brownish color (like mine did).  Jessica eventually turned into a brunette, so neither of us got to keep our blond hair.

At first I thought he looked like America.  However, once he stopped crying (this is not to imply that America cries all the time) I saw that he actually looks a lot like Jessica.  Noses are difficult to tell right away, but right now I think he has Jessica’s nose, my eyes, her mouth, and my head/hair.  Right after he was born, I saw him doing this thing with his mouth that looked just liked Jessica.  That’s when I was convinced that he looks like her.  But just like America, we probably won’t be able to tell for sure until he gets around the 3-month mark.

One thing I did differently with his birth that I was unable to do with America’s birth was that I actually took a picture of him as soon as he came out of the womb.  It’s a pretty nasty picture, but it’s neat, too.  It was like “déjà vu all over again” when I saw him like that.  I was immediately taken back to April of last year when America rendered me speechless, and motionless when I saw her for the first time.

Speaking of America, it’s so weird how I’m “homesick” for her.  I miss her so badly today.  I actually missed her a lot yesterday, too.  I could hardly wait for 5PM when I knew Lisa would be here with her.  America’s first reaction to her little brother was pretty uneventful.  She really wanted nothing to do with him.  She’d look at him, but she acted very disinterested.  When Sue left with her last night, we asked America if she wanted to give her little brother a kiss.  She bent down to do it and then she suddenly backed out on it.  I think she’ll do well with him though.  She’s pretty independent now that she can walk, although I’ve noticed that she’s starting to cry again whenever I walk out of the room.  She doesn’t do it all the time, but enough for me to notice it starting up again.  She also cries for me to give her the night-time bottle if she sees me walking past her.  I’m not sure why this has started up again, but it has.

I barely had time to get pictures sent out yesterday, and I apologize if the email didn’t get to you.  I sent it out to a lot of people at one time and I think it may have been marked as Spam for some people.  I know a lot of people read this blog, so I’ll post all the information here from now on.

So here’s a link to the small photo gallery I made yesterday for Boston: http://www.kevinadams.info/boston/gallery.