December 8, 2007

The news that I was a daddy was still very new for me. Mommy was making sure to get extra rest so that you would grow strong, and I was starting to wonder what you would be like. Would you be a boy or would you be a girl? Would you have brown eyes like mommy, or blue eyes like me? Would you be short, or tall? A lot of questions were in our minds. We were excited that God had given us you as a gift, and we were also wondering if we would be good parents. After a Christmas program at the Japanese kindergarten, we had some free time in the afternoon before we were to meet with our bosses. As soon as we found out that mommy was pregnant with you we told our bosses so that they would know. We wanted to make sure they were prepared, in case mommy had to go to the doctors or anything. When they found out that mommy was pregnant, they said they wanted to have a meeting with us. At the meeting they told us that we would have to go back to America at the end of the school year in April. It was a happy time for mommy and me, because we were going to have a baby, but it was also a sad time for us because we were going to have to leave some of our friends in Japan.