"Even though I've always wanted to have children," he said, "I wasn't expecting it to be..."

"What?"

"...So amazing."

He smiled down at the baby, cradled in his arms. I can't get enough of watching the two of them together.

"I think that having Ann around must have shaped me a lot." Little Swedish sister Ann was born when Pär was twelve. "I really liked being around a baby, taking care of the baby, and I grew up wanting that. So I guess I expected that this would feel the same way. But having my own child is so much more."

"How does it feel to you," I asked, my voice soft to match his.

"It feels like..." Pär gazed at Jeremiah, and sighed. There were tears in his eyes. "...He's just so small and beautiful."

"Yes."

"And he surrounds our lives with so much potential."

"Yes."

"And also he's humorous and cute."

"That's for sure."

"It's so good."