The first time I saw...

Sean leans back in the chair after reading the question. So many things that give one a special emotion when seen for the first time..

But one that will always be special to him is the first time his daughter was placed in his arms and he looked down into her face, finally able to relax because everything had gone as it should and she was there, and had the right number of eyes and hands and toes.. and ears.. Sean remembers looking down with puzzled amusement - and a touch of pride - at the ears, because they were his ears, exactly the same shape, and in that moment realizing that he had really created a new human being and that a part of him was in this new little person who was squirming in his arms and trying to eat her little hand.

Yes, the first time he saw those ears was when he truly realized he was a father.