Brutally hard at work in my office (see: trolling through Facebook), my heart leapt to my throat when my lovely wife sent out a scream from the living room…
“Quick, to the batmobile…er, baby’s room!”
Batteries to power, turbines to speed, paternal instincts kicked into high gear! Nadia Comaneci’d it over my office chair, nabbed a cricket bat mid-flight, kicked the door open, wide-eyed and alert like Shaun of the Dead, ready to wail the willow over any would-be zombie assailant within 3 miles of my son.
Fully expecting our little bloke to be choking, something fallen on him, wrapped in a cord or going Mano-a-Mano with a giant lizard creature from the Gorn Hegemony (see: Star Trek: Kirk VS Gorn), preparing my best Charlton Heston impression…
“Get your filthy paws off him, you damn dirty ape!”
We stood in total disbelief at the sight that befell us…
There we were, eyeball to eyeball with a grinning little cherub, STANDING for the very first time in his cot. Having pulled himself up the bars on his own. His grin so wide, it pushed out two windows in his room and a look of accomplishment and satisfaction I haven’t seen since I heard we were having a boy.
Give me a heart attack next time, sheesh.
But mummy and I looked at each other and we both felt it…a disturbance in The Force. Our little baby is growing up. And like all good mystery suspense stories, it doesn’t stop there. For there is something else brewing, just under the surface. Waiting, biding its time to burst out and emerge from its little cocoon…
His first tooth.
Just below the surface, ready to pop any day now.
Oh my lord, it has begun…
hold on – it’s going to get very, very exciting
We’re already white-knuckling it and we have no idea what’s to come. Buckle up…
LOL. I dunno what it is about your writing, you could write about the life cycle of a cashew and I’d still be laughing my head off.
What a great moment though, the first unassisted stand…right now I’m elated if Boo manages to commando crawl a lap of the house and not shove a dust bunny into her mouth.
Life cycle of a cashew? That’s nuts.