Congrats to the new parents!
I’m so happy for you guys and I can’t wait to meet her and your family!!
Wow!!! Kevin, congratulations! Best wishes as you start this new adventure of fatherhood!
She and I arrived at the hospital at just about 9:05 pm and in less than an hour our daughter was born.
From what my mom told me only the very coolest people are born this way! (See how I summoned all my modesty there 
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Congrats and big hugs from us to all of you!
She’s going to have one amazing dad!
OMG!! Amazing news Kevin!! I can’t wait to hear the music that this cherub will inspire! HUGE congratulations!
P.S. Cant WAIT to see the PHOTOS, ください！ 
Planet Earth will never be the same… Long life, health, and happiness to you all!!
Thanks again everyone. After spending some days in the hospital with Kumiko, my daughter has now been back home with us for just about a week. Consequently I’ve spent the past week learning to change diapers and give her a bath and all the other fun things that come with Fatherhood. One thing that has surprised me is the level of joy that comes with just hanging out with her. To be honest I have been thinking that the first year or two will be the hardest to deal with since basically my daughter cannot talk or express very much else except for basic bodily needs etc. So I’ve been thinking that it’s going to be a long wait before We can actually get to know each other but on the contrary I have come to find that just holding her seems to create a kind of communication that is beyond words. this morning I spent almost three hours just holding her while she either slept or opened her eyes to curiously look around the room. Somehow it began to feel like I could tell her things and vice versa. No words or even thoughts seemed nessicary. It’s hard to explain but it seems to be something magical.
To be honest I have been thinking that the first year or two will be the hardest to deal with since basically my daughter cannot talk or express very much else except for basic bodily needs etc.
Isn’t that phase supposed to come about 14 years later?
I have come to find that just holding her seems to create a kind of communication that is beyond words. this morning I spent almost three hours just holding her while she either slept or opened her eyes to curiously look around the room. Somehow it began to feel like I could tell her things and vice versa. No words or even thoughts seemed nessicary. It’s hard to explain but it seems to be something magical.
Quite a discovery! Does this connect with the thing that in western cultures we define being human through language and logic - and when we bracket those out, things start to appear unusual and magical?
Many East-Asian disciplines seem to have a different starting point, where a mind/body or reason/biology dualism doesn’t appear.
Sounds like things are going as well as could be expected! Building a connection with her should take some time, just like meeting any new person. Fun fact: My parents waited a year before naming my brother or I. They wanted to get to know us, sense our personalities and find a name that fit.
And that is an awesome realization too! Animals connect without speaking, why can’t we? A friend of ours was coming over with her newborn son. When I spent time with him, really, I didn’t feel any need to talk. I mean, just looking in each others’ eyes felt very connective.
Of course, I think speaking to her is good, of course. But just meaning, silent time together can be just as meaningful to her and you.
More importantly though, has she started Rokudan?
Keep up the good work!
Kevin remember not to let your arsenal of guns lying around in the years to come, or else one day YOU may be the one being told to get into the mf car haha!
Furthermore, I think little babies express themselves through farts. Because they do that a lot. And they smile while at it.
Haha, that’s true !
This made me laugh in this thread …
More importantly though, has she started Rokudan?
Well, has she?
I think little babies express themselves through farts. Because they do that a lot. And they smile while at it.
Doesn’t everybody?
(Kevin, you are so very lucky!)