The other challenge I received was to create a journal entry about how my husband feels about all of this. I really struggled here, because I know how he feels -- happy, excited, nervous, a little scared -- but I didn't know how to represent these things. It occurred to me to have Ben create the entry himself, but that just didn't seem like the right solution somehow. What I ended up creating is a sketch of something that I think encapsulates how happy, excited, and involved he is. It's just a graphite sketch of him reading the old Winnie-the-Pooh stories to me (and the baby), something he's been doing each night. Those stories are so wonderful, funny, and un-Disney, with awesome illustrations by Ernest Shepard. And our baby can now has functional ears, so she can hear her dad reading to her -- and me laughing at the funny turns of phrase in these stories. I love the part where we learn that Pooh once lived in the forest under the name of Sanders.
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