Chapter 41: Time Warps

Last night around 5:30pm I called my wife and told her I was coming home early from school. I gathered my things and proceeded downstairs to the main floor of the law school. Upon seeing outside, I had a moment of utter confusion. I hadn't checked my phone, and was sure that it was around 3:30pm. I felt like I had entered a time warp which catapulted me ahead two hours. I guess the same could be said about the last seven months. There is so much that needs to be said and so little time in which to say, so again I will just try to cover the highlights, hopefully in some semblance of chronolgy.

• I graduated from the College of Business Magna Cum Laude


• Our softball teams got first place for both men's and co-ed this summer.


• I started law school in august. It has been a CRAZY semester and I am currently getting prepared to take finals.


• We went to General Conference on my birthday


• I played flag football, we lost in the tournament.


• We played co-ed volleyball with me, PJ, Kevin, and Cassidee. We did ok, we won about half our games.


• I sang with LDSSA for the homecoming sing.


• I got the highest grade on a paper in my writing class!


• Christin and her kids came to visit Laramie


• Calvin Sanford Shumway was born October 24th, 2011 at 8:41am. The kid is as cute a baby as any I have ever seen. He was very alert immediately after being born, and had more hair than you could imagine. He makes my life so much more meaningful, and is a HUGE deterant for me getting any work done in law school. He still sleeps mostly during the day and keeps Heather up all night. He is now a little over a month old and is getting bigger by the minute. He struggled at first to breastfeed, and now that is pretty much all he does when he is not sleeping or diarehha farting. I can't really tell who he looks like yet, but he definitely has his mom's eyes. I am the head diaper changer. Heather deals with imports and I deal with exports. He loves to be held and will snuggle with just about anyone (as long as he has been fed). One of my favorite things is getting him out of his crib around 5:00am and bringing him to our bed and having him sleep with us. A couple weeks ago, Heather laid Cal on the bed while I was still sleeping. She laid him about a foot away from me, and over the course of about 15 minutes, he wiggled his way over to me and snuggled up to me. Snuggling with him is one of my favorite things in the world. Heather is an amazing mom. She was back in school the week after Cal was born, and back running after about three weeks. She started insanity this week, so I hope she can keep it up with Cal's constant need for attention. A lot of people asked me how I felt after having a baby. I didn't really feel all that different. It was a little strange that in a way, Calvin was a complete stranger to me, and yet I still loved him so much. The love of a parent for a child is beyond my writing abilities. He makes my life so much better, and he doesn't even do anything.

Well, I guess most of the events since Calvin's birth revolve around him, but the last thing I'll mention is although I feel like I entered a time warp, the memories I have are good ones.