Posts from — August 2007
28 weeks +
Man, but I’ve been slacking on the posting… and I don’t even have the kid yet. You know it’ll be so much worse when he’s screaming in the background and I’m covered in poop and bile.
Anyway, the camera appears to have eaten the 24-week belly, but here’s the 28 week for your viewing pleasure. And 28 weeks means 12 or so to go, which means it’s actually happening, and soon! We had a lovely family shower last weekend and got lots of great stuff, but if you happen to be so inclined, there are lists of still available items at babies r us and amazon under the wife’s last name.
As for our relative sanity level, it varies from day to day, but isn’t too too bad at the moment. We’re long past the fear stage, and all I really worry about now really (because you’re not allowed to worry about the big things) is whether or not our baby will be ugly. ah, vanity. I take comfort in the fact that babies are pretty much genetically inclined to be cute so that, at least historically speaking, they didn’t get hurled off cliffs, but still, every once in a while, the evil thought creeps into my head.
Not that I at least won’t think he’s the most beautiful baby in the world, at least once he outgrows the initial pruned/old man stage, but really, what if he’s hideous to everyone else? And the fact that so many of our friends are also pregnant at the same time isn’t much of a comfort, either, because, admit it, somebody’s got the chance of getting stuck with an unattractive child. And even if they’re all cute, won’t people be comparing, contrasting their every blemish, their every missing/additional hair (’cause you know mine will have hair, there’s little doubt of this)? Or will that just be me?
Right now, I’m using this as parental inspiration…. does that seem wrong?
August 10, 2007 No Comments