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A Baby is Perfection

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DanielBenoit
, 03-12-2010 at 01:53 AM (1452 Views)
Her name is Payten Grace Kane, she was born at 9:45 PM and weighs seven pounds, nine ounces. She is perfection wrapped in a bundle. She smiles when I hold her (or at least I think she smiles). She makes a swishing movement with her tounge and whose mouth is smaller than a soda cap. Her eyes are squinted but alert and her cheeks are smooth as silk.

Prior to the birth I sat in the waiting room reading a college textbook on world religions borrowed from my brother's girlfriend who was also there. I read whatever excerpts of Tao Te Ching were provided in the Daoist section.

As I held the baby I thought how she was the closest thing to the perfection and holiness of the Tao. Her universe was as simple and honest as possible. Her blissful lack of knowledge of the world is beyond conceivable to us wounded and experienced adults. This is a child, lacking and empty of philosophy, religion, war, politics, family, stress, responsibility, anger, sexuality, social acceptance, and even thought itself. This is a child, and she is as perfect as anything in this world.
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  1. JuniperWoolf's Avatar
    Holy makeral! That's so cool. I've always thought that newborn babies were amazing, for exactly the same reasons that you've mentioned in your third paragraph. I wish that I could remember what it was like to be completely devoid of knowledge and experiencing the world for the first time. Oooooh, it's so neat... yesterday she wasn't a "human," and now she is. I bet you'll make a great uncle, and she'll become a better person with you in her life (I honestly mean that).
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Newborn babies too me always just look like scary alien creatures. One of my nieces I had nick named the larvae when she was first born. I know that sounds mean but my sister just thought it was funny because she knows how I am.
    Updated 03-12-2010 at 05:01 AM by Dark Muse
  3. Heathcliff's Avatar
    Absolute perfection. You are so right.

    Haha, Uncle DB.
  4. Nightshade's Avatar
    ummm hate to burst your bubble but she isnt smiling! Congrats though and while I really dislike newborns for first week or so ( I find there is a smell about newborns that really fine nausea endusing) , babies are cool bundles and they only get better for the first year anyway!
  5. Buh4Bee's Avatar
    You're going to be an awesome uncle.

    Dark Muse- They do look like little aliens, because they don't blink much and the way they look around seems as if you are other worldly. Sometimes I think that JS is an alien. My husband told me not to get paranoid again or he'd have to take me back to the hospital.
  6. Buh4Bee's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by jersea
    You're going to be an awesome uncle.

    Dark Muse- They do look like little aliens, because they don't blink much and the way they look around seems as if you are other worldly. Sometimes I think that JS is an alien. My husband told me not to get paranoid again or he'd have to take me back to the hospital.
    Congratulations to you, your sister and the rest of your family.
  7. Virgil's Avatar
    Hehe, you are idealizing, but so be it. It shows you've got a good heart Daniel. She sounds wonderful and i love the name, Peyton Grace. Congratulations to you and the family.
  8. qimissung's Avatar
    Congratulations, Daniel. Newborn babies are amazing. They are beautiful and perfect.

    But one of these days, through some other miraculous means, she will become a real, thinking, emoting, expeienced human being, and what I think will be truly joyous and wondrous is that I think you will be as much for her then, when she is so much more less than perfect, as you are today.

    May you, and she, and all the family who are going to be a part of raising her, be blessed.
  9. Maryd.'s Avatar
    Hey, DB, congrats...

    Awww.

    Love to hear when a little one enters the world.

    Just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Enjoy being an uncle.
  10. applepie's Avatar
    Congratulations to you all. Your niece is a lucky baby to have an uncle so enthralled with her :)
  11. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by jersea
    Congratulations to you, your sister and the rest of your family.
    When my sister first told us she was pregant with her 2nd kid my exzact response was, with raised eye brows.

    uhhh........soo....is that...a good thing?
  12. AuntShecky's Avatar
    Here's something for you and your newest family member

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GczSTQ2nv94
  13. Niamh's Avatar
    congrats to your sister and your family!