Josiah, MY NEW SON!

Before I left early Friday afternoon for ATF I laid my hands on my wife's stomach and prayed, "Lord keep my son in the womb for 30 more hours". It was a selfish prayer I know, because Amanda was ready to have him as of yesterday, but I really didn't want to miss my son being born! 30hrs later, at 12:30am Sunday morning I arrived home exhausted from the ATF weekend. As soon as I walked through the front doors I was met by Amanda walking down the stairs holding her stomach. She said with some discomfort, "ok i am ready, lets go the hospital". Excitedly I said "ok get in the car its still warm". We arrived at the hospital and they gave her a room. During all of this I was really starting to feel sick. I said "I will be back in a minute" and ran down to my car to grab some Tylenol. While I was at the car I received a text msg saying "OMG its started, he's coming now"! I dropped my stuff and started running back to her room. There was so much excitement that i missed the front doors and ran all the way to the back! Then there was no elevator or stairs in sight. Finally, I seen the elevator at the end of a hall. As I began to run down the hall, an old lady in a wheel chair pulls out in front of me. In my mind I am thinking "If I have to wait for her I will miss my son being born"! So I against my better judgment I cut her off and jumped into the elevator, pressing the close door button before she had a chance to get there. I could see her just as the door was closing, and the expression on her face was "those terrible young people have no respect for there elders!" OH Man, I felt so terrible but I kept telling myself "I cant miss my son being born". The elevator stopped on Amanda's floor and I ran out towards her room. Out of breath I arrived at Amanda's room and was met by the nurse, my mother in law and Amanda all falling over with laughter! The nurse wipes the tears from her eyes and said "we were watching you from the window run across the parking lot and miss the front doors. What took you so long?" I told them about not being able to find a way up, then cutting off the old lady in a wheel chair and how bad I felt and they laughed even harder! Oh well, If Amanda was laughing then she wasn't thinking about the pain. A few hours later Amanda gave birth to our son Josiah Nathanael Jobin at 11:50 am, Sunday, October, 25th. God is so good!

Nate