who does jack look like?

one of the immediate assessments that is made of a newborn is who he looks like. you know. he has your eyes, his mother’s smile, his grandfather’s baldness. so, who does jack look like? at two months old it’s a little early to tell. many people have said he looks like his father. personally, i think this has more to do with the fact that his father looks like a newborn than jack looking like his dad. one feature that jack and his father seem to share is the earlobes. meaty, fleshy, ripe for piercing earlobes. for about a week jack had small eyes to match his father’s, but they have opened wider recently to reveal beautiful bright eyes (probably hazel) to match his mom’s.

about a week after nona (kelly’s mom) and grampa linds (lindsay) visited we received a photo of kelly’s brother sean as in infant. it could have been jack. bottom line. yeah! he looks like both of us. he has some mcmurray and st.cyr traits.

i think jack bares a striking resemblance to jack jack parr (the incredibles). you should see him when he’s upset. there’s definitely some kind of shape-shifting thing going on there.

mark harmon was in the delivery room

kelly admitted to me the other day that she has this fondness for mark harmon. okay, not so much mark harmon, but for his CBS tv series NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service). for those of you not familiar with the show it’s one of the many new forensics investigation shows capitalizing on the success of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. why NCIS? well, if you do the math, it turns out that this tv show was on the television while kelly was in active labor at the time. labor that involves the kind of pain no man could fathom, let alone survive. did i mention the shouting of expletives unheard outside a delivery room. so the dreamy image of mark harmon drinking coffee over decaying corpses is burned into the mind of the mother of my child. isn’t there something wrong with this? shouldn’t that brand be of my image? after all i’m the one who was being cursed at every five minutes. the show is okay. some interesting characters and storylines, but come on. the result of all of this is that we now do not answer the phone on tuesday evenings between 7-8pm. it’s a moment shared by kelly, jack and mark.

the mind works in strange ways. this televisual mnemonic of a group of naval investigators will forever be a reminder of the time and place in our history of the day jack was born. i suppose it could of been worse. CSI: Miami could have been on.