An Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

We had another wonderful shower this past weekend in the Atlanta Area.  It was hosted by our good friends Andy and Molly Camp and Parker and Shannon Hurt.  Andy and Parker are two of Clark’s best friends from Auburn.  It was a wonderful shower and really continues to show us how blessed we are to have such wonderful friends in our lives and a wonderful circle of friends for Hannah to jump into.  The gifts for Hannah were incredibly generous and we get closer and closer to completing our “tool kit” to handle all the unknowns in front of us.  The show was stolen with one of the gifts from the Camps and the Hurts, a Pink Daisy BB gun.  Clark was over joyed with the gift and can’t wait to one day take our little one out into the woods and show her how to use it.  He also mentioned that if he can get Hannah to go hunting with him, he’ll be able to go more.  I laughed and said if she is anything like me, she’ll do anything her Dad does to spend time with him.

Seeing Clark talk with his friends about being dads was funny.  They keep trying to tell him how different it will be and how much it will change him.  Clark being Clark retorted with it is not him who will have to change.  Our friend Ryan just sat back during this exchange smirking and shaking his head.  Ryan and his wife Carrie have a little girl Carli and another one on the way, so this isn’t his first Rodeo and knows better.  Clark really seems to have embraced the idea of parenthood and has even muttered the words “let’s knock this part out and get to meet her.”  He seems as antsy as I am but in a different way.  He is just ready to tackle anything that comes our way.  I am antsy in the way of, oh S%*t, are we ready?  If you would have asked me 8 months ago, I would have said our roles would have been reversed.  However, his confidence is very reassuring.  He continues to make me laugh to calm me down on purpose or not.  His best lately was about one the gifts from our friends Blake and Julie.  They gave us the book “Go the F#@K to Sleep.” Clark asked if we read it to Hannah, I told him to read it first and use his best judgment.

On the home front, we are making some serious progress.  The new carpet for upstairs was put in last week and looks wonderful.  The crib and dresser have been ordered and will be delivered sometime next week.  I have already re-arranged the current items in her room once, and this probably will be the first of many.  I am really getting anxious to have everything set and ready.  We start our parenting class next week.  It is at Huntsville Hospital and will be once a week for four weeks on Tuesdays.  I am hoping this will answer a lot of the questions that we have or haven’t even thought about yet.

I did find a good article on what to bring to the hospital with you to make your stay more comfortable.  I would have never even thought of some of the stuff.  If you have any good suggestions, send them my way.  I am starting to pack my bag for the hospital.

Hope this finds everyone well and healthy,

Team McCarthy