Wednesday, June 09, 2010

New baby and time to pass the stoke






Sarah gave birth to our baby boy Aiden Skye Trumbo on the second at 8:59. He weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces and 22.5 inches long. How such a big kid got out of my beautiful wife I will never quite understand. Maybe he overheard the yoga tapes. It was like getting a keg of beer, the beer truck and driver out of the glove box of a smart car. The proportions are just all wrong. She was amazing in enduring the next 18 hours after the midnight check in and three am inducement. Wish the epidural came earlier, but she held out and only punched me a few times.. just kidding.. really. She was great and we even were transferred to the ultimate delivery view room at Cedars. Aiden was born overlooking Beverly Blvd and the Beverly Center with the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Park observatory as back drops. The city lights came up and Aiden decided to come into this world with a grin and was in mom's arms in seconds. What a great moment. It just does not get any better than that. Aiden just put on his casual air of no big deal and got ready for a few days of docs poking prodding, injecting, blood letting and general infant and mother practical joking that is only found at the very best medical centers here and on Mars. The nurses and care were really exceptional and even a few kitesurfing buds wives who are nurses there stopped by to see how Sarah was doing.

It was a whirlwind of a week at the hospital and with S's mom coming to help out. Having a cool mother in law is one of those unbelievable smacks in the face of universal stand up comedy mother in law joke order. She actually was a huge help, cooked and talked about kitesuring in Baja with me for about four minutes one day. It was about kitesurfing less in Baja, but at least it was about kitesurfing and not golf or other do when dead pseudosports for the adrenaline challenged.

Lots of wind around plus calls for lessons, lifeguarding, etc during the last few weeks.. Finally got that xray which confirmed the avulsion fx of fifth metatarsal proximally at the peroneous longus insertion.. Translation... No kitesurfing for six weeks..or biking running... Going to be doing some swimming and try not to move the hoof much. The ortho gave me a velcro boot just like the one I had just given to the homeless shelter. Get the thing and find it actually exacerbates the condition and the duct tape and stiff sandal option actually works better though costs only a few dollars. Got a bunch of the gang to test kites and tell me the stories while rehabing and spending time with Aiden and Sarah.. Rumor is there might just be another size of a certain proto kite heading towards my hood. The team kiteheads will be flying the heck out of it. Still stoked on the Agronaut, Chargers, and Kimas in the truck. Really would like to score a strapped...gasp.... nice waveboard in six foot size with some width and volume to allow that few times a year of the full on strapped in wave session, boosting over sets and hitting the big airs of the lip like the old days before a million of those hit's made 1500 dollar knee braces standard equipment for many of us. No straps and no problems but it is cool once in a while to do all those old school huge airs and critical section, It is a blast to work all the styles and when Aiden is old enough, hope to get him interested in all styles of riding that won't blow his joints apart. We sure are lucky to have a healthy happy baby that actually allowed us to sleep a little this week with only a minimal amount of diaper changes, feedings and requests for a quiver of boards, preschool tuition at a beach side spa and a new quiver of kites. At least that's what I thought he said after the first three days of no sleep in the hospital.

1 Comments:

At 2:05 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

Great talking to you Traig. Glad to hear your healing and how timely so you can spend some QT with the wife and your boy.

Take care of yourself and hope to see you soon after this Exxon project.

God I miss kite surfing! BTW My bud just got a great pad in down town LBC not far from Belmont Shores. That's going to be my kite surfing Haven for awhile!

 

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