"Just six days old," Joel agrees, still smiling. It's funny, he never imagined this would happen, but he feels like he's itching to get Dane back in his arms. Holding his son is like an addiction and he wants so badly for his friends to meet him and hold him, but there's a part of him that never wants to let go either.

"And he was early, too. His due date wasn't until July seventh, but he came on June nineteenth. Nearly three weeks early."