by Damon Hayes-Milligan on May 11, 2009

It's a Boy!, It's the end of the world as we know it, R.E.M.

On my way into work this morning while flipping through the many stations of Sirius radio; I took pause when I came across the song by R.E.M. “It’s the end of the world as we know it”.  And suddenly, like a flick of the light switch it hit me: this really is the end of the world as we know it and you know … I feel fine!

Greetings all.  Queen of the Court taking off my THUNDER hat and switching it out with my newly minted ‘Baby Daddy’ hat.

Mind you, I am skipping ahead of more than three years of history, news and information on our journey into parenthood, but needless to say, we are going to be daddies.  Well, actually that’s “Daddy and Poppy” but that isn’t the important part of this article. 

My partner and I are going through surrogacy with our surrogate mother in San Diego, California.  We are expecting twin boys (named Thun and Der … although we will have to see them to decide which one is which).  They are estimated to weigh between 6.5 and 7.5 pounds and continue to pack on the weight.  Our surrogate sent a text message last week that stated “My mucus plug has popped” and with those few words our minds went racing.  The boys are on their way and we need to get things done!  Some things to take into consideration before I get to far into my story: 

1. There are no direct flights from Oklahoma City to San Diego
2. We miss “XJet” as they were the only direct flight to and from OKC to San Diego and vice versa
3. There is a point around 6:15pm nightly that if we haven’t received the call that our sons are being born that we will be unable to make it to San Diego that day.
4. That we have washed more pairs of baby/infant socks then we both own or wear together.
5. Oh and perhaps most important: never put too much baby soap in a high efficiency (HE) washing machine.  Trust me on this one.

We washed all of the baby clothes that we had been given through our various baby showers (oh and if you were a person that gave us something, please know that we are working on your “Thank You” cards as we speak!)  We used the special baby laundry detergent and haven’t used fabric softener or any dryer sheets.  The room has been stocked with diapers for all ages, baby books, wipes, the most fantastic chair to nurse them in–and monkeys as far as the eye can see!  Right now we’ve put all of our friends and families on standby as we wait for the phone call, text message, smoke signals or the screaming of our names from our poor dear surrogate mother.  We have hold up our lives in the house for a little over a week now and so far so good.  The house has never been cleaner or have we done laundry as frequently as we have since we got the text message a week ago.

This article is ongoing, as of today we are still waiting for the sign to purchase our plane tickets and head West.  What we do know is that they will be born between now 5/4/09 and 5/15/09, we just don’t know when.  So, for any of you that have crystal balls that aren’t clouded and seem to have an ‘eye for the future’ please let us know the exact date.  Oh, and the PowerBall numbers too.

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