My Dear Child,

tomorrow we might know how to address you by name or at least boy or girl but what matters is that you are our beloved child. Normally parents would have known or been given the choice to know for a long time at this stage but we live in just about the remotest place in the world that we actually hope you will enjoy growing up in. What matters is that all we want for you is to have parents who love you and stay together and happy. Your mum and dad might sometimes be overheard having different opinions on certain things but what matters is that they love each other, very much so and that they can accept and forgive each other.

Your parents are weighing so many options as to where is the best place for you to see the light of the day and your beautiful mother for the first time, to look into her loving yet inquisitive eyes that so reflect the longing she has to hold you in her arms just as i have to hold you in ours. It is not an easy task, sometimes options whilst being a gift make it hard to settle on one or the other but we sure will find the best way my love. What matters is you will soon be with the both of us.

Yesterday we went for a 21st BirthDay party and it make us think what it will be like when you get there. The boy’s Nanny confessed of having a harrowing experience when the little one at the age of three had crawled under a bus that was about to take off and how she promised not to tell anyone before the boy’s 21st and so she did. May your guardian angel always be on the lookout too. Your mama once wrote me this wonderful letter where she said that her guardian Angel is making up for all prior shortcomings by making it happen that your Mama and i have met like the wave of two pebbles thrown into a pond.

Speaking of the wet element, your mama is a brave paddler not afraid of pitching in for the team when we got stranded on a coral head and she had to jump into the water to allow the back of the vaka to dislodge. I admire her open and friendly way with which she makes contact with people who up to that moment were stranger and it is my hope she will pass this on to you not only hereditarily but also by showing us how life becomes so much easier by just taking that first step and make contact. For instance, the other day we set off to paddle for an hour, your mama in seat number 5, me in seat number 2 and by the time we came back she knew all there was to know about giving birth in the Rarotonga hospital as the steerer in seat number 6 is working as a doctor there. Pretty cool, huh?

You can look forward to the way your mama whips up nice food from whatever little or much is in the fridge just as she does now so i can write some lines to you my dear.

It is Sunday, cloudy conditions and not much happening but with your mum and what we have right now include you it is all we need to be happy and happy.i.am and it is my hope i speak for your mama as well.

Lots of love and i am so looking forward to see you soon.

Your daddy who very much loves your Mum