Tus abuelos maternos

Aquí los abuelos maternos. Tu abuelo tendrá toda la paciencia del mundo contigo, te llevará a jugar al parque y te ayudará con las tareas, mientras que tu abuela te preparará ricos manjares, te llevará en brazos y te protegerá de cualquier mal. 

Así son tus abuelos, mis padres, personas a quienes amo muchísimo y agradezco infinitamente por todo lo que son y me han enseñado y aún me siguen entregando. Paciencia, conocimiento y mucho amor.

Estamos muy felices de que tengas tan maravillosos abuelos!

Hand to Feet

With my hands upon your feet, I feel your future steps

crossing mountain peaks and plumbing valley's depths.

Too soon I carry you no more, too soon my strength will fail

your feet no longer in my hands, you walk the manhood trail

but know this son and keep it close, the one from who you feed

will take your feet into his hands, whenever there's the need.

Life saver

You grandmother wants me to tell you how you saved her life. 

When she heard about you she immediately made the decision to come to Peru to be here when you were born. That was not a small decision for her, as it is a long way from her house to our house, it takes about a day to go from one to the other, and she would be travelling on her own. So she bought herself a ticket for the aeroplane that would bring her to be with you and started making her preparations for the trip. 

Sometime before all this you grandmother the doctors had told her that she was unwell. It occurred to you grandmother that being on an aeroplane might effect her illness, which she had ignored up to this point, and that she should go to the doctors to get it checked out before getting on to the aeroplane. 

So she went to the doctor and asked him to take a look and do you know what he told her? He told her that it wasn't what they had though before, it was something else. Something worse. He told her she had a cancer growing in her breast! What do you think of that! A bit different, no? 

Well, this was one week before she was going to get on the aeroplane to come and be with you, so the doctor had to do some quick tests so your grandmother could know whether she could travel or not. You were too young to notice, but in the end you paternal grandmother didn't make it to be with us when you were born. So I guess from that we can tell the tests did not come out in favour of her trip. 

However, what did go in her favour was that the cancer could be taken out, and that is just what the doctors did. She had it removed and had some treatment to make sure there wasn't any more of it in her body. 

So you see how you saved your grandmother's life? She was going to ignore her illness as she thought she knew what it was. It was only her trip to see you that made her have it checked, and just in time! So your arrival in the family kept our grandmother with us too. 

Not a bad way to join the family, hey? 

Nos fuimos a pasear

¡Feliz primer cumplemes!

Ha pasado un mes desde que llegaste a nuestras vidas y desde ese día nos has hecho aún más felices.

Recuerdo el día de tu nacimiento como si fuera ayer. Te pusieron en mi regazo y tenías los ojos bien abiertos. Te veías confundido en este nuevo lugar con nosotros. Te quedé mirando mientras en mi rostro tenía la sonrisa más grande que haya tenido jamás. Tu padre te sostuvo sobre su pecho descubierto dejando que sientas su calor y los fuertes latidos de su emocionado corazón. La felicidad no nos cabía más. Hiciste que nuestros corazones latieran más rápido que nunca antes.

Después de limpiarte y revisar que todo esté bien, te llevaron a nuestra habitación y pude tenerte en mis brazos por primera vez. Eras más pequeño de lo que eres ahora y más frágil también. Te tomé con mucho cuidado y mientras acariciaba tu pequeña cabeza, miraba cada detalle precioso de tu cuerpito de recién nacido.

En los días siguientes hubieron muchas malas noches e intentos de comprender tus llantos. Dicen que criar a un hijo es el trabajo más difícil que puedas amar, y seguro vendrán más retos pero todo eso y más es bastante llevadero con tu papá a mi lado. Él ha sido mi gran soporte, amigo solidario, comprensivo esposo y padre maravilloso entregándonos su amor, cuidados y mucho apoyo.

Ya ha pasado un mes y el verte más grande, curioso, feliz y sano lo vale todo. Pesas 4 kilos 400 gramos y mides 54 centímetros y hoy celebramos tu primer mes de vida con un keke que preparó tu abuela y fue decorado por tu abuelo y tía. Te amamos!!!

¡Feliz primer mes, mi bebé precioso!

Documentando la maravillosa experiencia de mi embarazo