We welcomed Colin Seamus Salari to our family on May 5. The sweet smell of baby now fills our house and the sound of two giggling children fill the rooms. We are overwhelmed with exhaustion but exploding with joy because of him. He weighed in at 7 lbs 5oz and was 21 inches long. The labor was short but quiet painful. We went to the hospital at 6 am and he arrived at 1:14 in the afternoon. Lily was thrilled when we brought him home; it was like we brought her a gift. The moment we walked through the door she said “Bro!!” so from then on he has been called “Bro” or “little bro”. She has been a little upset at Anthony and I for breaking up the three musketeers but only seems to be mad directly at us. She holds nothing against him and seems quite pleased to have him around. I’m sure the slip of a pink cowboy boot hitting his head was a pure accident.
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. -Vincent Van Gogh
