Baby Brown

November 21, 2010

Dear Baby Brown,

I have known that you are on the way for over a week! I am beginning to get used to the idea that my “baby” is having a baby. Your dad called us on Thursday night, November 11 after I had just talked to him at a basketball game. He talked to your grandfather first and then asked that I get on the other phone. That request alone made me highly suspicious that something special was “up.” I probably didn’t react the way that either your dad or I would have anticipated….I hardly knew what to say! I have thought about you so often in the past two and a half years….hoping that you were in the “plan”; wondering how you would be “announced”; anticipating how I would feel! I never thought about a phone call on a Thursday night after a ball game! But your dad was so excited. He and your mom had known since Monday and all he could say was, “I was just ready to tell SOMEBODY!”

On the next Sunday, your dad announced the news at church as a joy at prayer time. “Pastor, last Monday I was taking a shower and getting ready to go to school just like any other day. When I got out of the bathroom, my beautiful wife informed me that we are going to have a baby! She said that it was the longest shower that I had ever taken!” Everyone in the church applauded the news!

Now the real waiting begins…July 19 seems like a long time away. So many new things to wonder about…will you be a boy or a girl?…what will your name be?…and , of course, the biggy….what will you call me?!!! But whatever the answer to those questions will be, please know this Baby Brown: you will be born into a family who already loves you very much!