Benjamin Announcing the birth of our son, Benjamin John Dickerson, born on March 29th, 2006. He’s an adorable morning-person. He inherited his eyebrows and hands from Mommy, eyes and ears from Daddy, and a shock of red hair perhaps from some third donor we know little about.

Benjamin very much loves to be cuddled. He finds it so comforting in fact, that it doesn’t much matter what’s going on as long as he gets that physical contact: You could be at a Metallica concert, or in the Land of Barking Stray Dogs, or worse, and he’d be just fine. Conversely, he could be in infant-heaven: soothing music playing, surrounded by lactating breasts and bathing in warm milk, but he’d be crying uncontrollably if it were not for the cuddling. So we spend much of our waking hours comforting him. I suppose you can tell we’re still trying to figure out if we’re spoiling him in that department.

At this point, Benjamin has very limited skills with respect to speech, mobility and bladder control, but already I can tell he’s going to be a killer wrestler. He will be known as the Claw Hammer, because of his signature move, which will involve digging into his opponent with his razor-sharp fingernails, and following with a powerful head-butt. Trust me: it’ll be deadly.