Incredible Connection

Last night Claudio finally took me to see Avatar. The expectations I had of the film had grown exponentially due to comments like, "That film will change your life!" or "That film has changed history!" or "I would see it again in the theater!" Needless to say, I went in with fairly high expectations.
And it was, perhaps, one of the better films I have seen in a long time. I am, however, glad I did not see it in 3D, as I surely would have had a seizure. The special effects were brilliant, the underlying message we beautiful, I cried with the knowingness that we are, at this very moment, truly living a very scary situation of destruction verses profit.
Although, it was not the most amazing and incredible thing that happened to us over the course of the evening.
Midway through the film the baby was being so active that I found myself uncomfortable for the first time during my pregnancy. Constantly moving and kicking, I received one blow to the rib cage after another. I was so uncomfortable, in fact, at one point I could barely continue sitting up in my chair, and finally grabbed Claudio's hand to silently communicate to him why I was slouched down in my seat like an attitude driven adolescent.
Claudio looked at me startled, and whispered, "It must be the sound." "Leaving his hand on my belly he said, do you think it is upsetting him/her?" And then, suddenly, in a matter of 30 seconds maximum, the baby was calm, calmed by daddy's touch. We looked at each other and smiled a smile where words are not needed to express the love and excitement we share in becoming parents.
Claudio left his hand resting on my stomach for the entirety of the film, nearly an hour, and the baby did not so much as move.
While the film was dialoging about energetic connection with mother nature and planet earth, we, on the other hand, were experiencing it.

This morning, after rising with the sun,
we sat drinking mate, recalling the beautiful moment that had touched us the night before. Then, teary eyed, we realized the date. Yesterday, January 10th, 2010, marked exactly 4 years from the night Claudio and I first kissed in the sacred mountains of Machu Picchu. Exactly four years from the start of a beautiful and karmic connection, another connection was made, this time between father and child.

(The view from our bedroom window)