I must confess I crave your indulgence, dear readers, for committing that most egregious of mommy blog sins: I went into labor and had a baby and didn’t even have the decency to tell you about it!  In my defense, I did update Twitter and Facebook, but that would only have done you good if you follow me there.

Dudes.  I seriously cannot believe the past few days.  I will definitely post a detailed birth story soon, but the short story to wet your whistle is that I went into labor shortly before 5 AM on Wednesday, arrived to the birth center at 9 AM, and was pushing at noon.  A very fast labor, so I hope you’ll understand why I didn’t have time to update my blog!

I actually thought about writing a quick post before we left for the birth center, but with strong contractions every three minutes it was fairly impossible.  But enough about me…How about this precious baby?

Oh, you guys, if I had any idea how cute he was I would have been even more impatient!  He is the very definition of a handsome boy, and he gives me the most adorable gas smiles in the wee hours of the morning that completely excuse me having to be awake.

His name is Aidan (his middle name is a family name, but due to the highly public nature of this here blog I’m keeping that name to myself for identity theft reasons) and he was born on Wednesday.  He weighed 7 lbs. 3 oz. and was not so very tall at all (though he does have a very long torso!).

Such beautiful dark brown hair!  Such dark blue eyes!  The most puckered up precious little mouth!  I’m completely in love, and Wes can barely bring himself to put him down either.  Aidan’s a very alert boy, and he’s a champion nurser with the strongest suck this side of a black hole.  My goodness, this boy was born to eat!

So, please welcome our little Aidan to the world.  I think you’ll agree his preciousness was entirely too consuming to afford me time to write until now.  I have faith that as soon as I can master the stairs again (hi, stitches!) I’ll be writing ad nauseum about the minutiae of life with a newborn.  Until then, the most precious picture ever, brought to you by the hour of midnight.