“Hey Ya’ll!” In Texas, We do it Bigger and Better!!!

I am Bigger and I am Better. How Bigger? Close to 4 pounds, Baby! As they say in Texas, “This little lady is fair to middling.”

And Better? Better than I was just a few weeks ago. If I thought that holding me would bring such a Big smile to my Mama’s beautiful face, I would have done this “skin-to-skin” togetherness a “long-time” ago. Lets face it, “I am sweeter than baby’s breath,” “I am softer than a two-minute egg,” and “This is so good it’ll make childbirth a pleasure.” (Texans love to exaggerate)

But a “long-time” ago, I was still attached to the Nitro-oxygen machine; and lets face it, that machine is “noisy as two skeletons dancing on a tin roof” and “louder than Grandpa’s Sunday tie.” The machine works and looks something like this:

Oh, I still have my daily nursing care that is sometimes just plain “like hugging a rose bush,” but I would do it again in a Texas “heart-beat minute” if I could relive the first time I felt my mama’s warm, sweet smelling skin and heard the pounding of her heart–so strong she “makes Samson look like a sissy.” Now my Mama ain’t no sissy. She was born in San Antonio, and “she could command the Texas Rangers across the Rio Grande.” (Grandma made that one up)

Well, in no uncertain words, she told my nurses and doctors she wanted to hold me and wanted to hold me soon..need I say more? Yes, I must. My Mama, like “Texans with 10 gallon mouths,” “can speak ten words a second, with gusts to fifty.”

Because lets face it, this Little Chick has been hatched and had to get out of that Incubator and get out “right quick.”

Special Thanks to Nurse Courtney who photo-shot Me and Mama and Little Texas song God Bless Texas (click here.) for their musical inspiration.

You are invited to read My next Page titled “Hear Ye, Hear Ye.”