Fatherhood

It has been about six weeks since my wife and I welcomed our beautiful little daughter into the world and so far the dire predictions from friends and family about wanting to sell off my kids to the circus have not come true. My four-year-old son is taking his little sister in stride and his little sister is excelling at everything except, of course, sleeping for more than three hours at a time.

The nine months leading up to our daughter’s birth was filled with prophecies of doom and gloom about the hardships of adding a second child to our …

Our nine month wait is almost over. In just a few more days my wife and I, along with our son, will be meeting the new addition to our family. We don’t know if our baby will be a nervous one or a calm one, if our baby will enjoy being bounced on a knee or held tightly or if our baby will like mushed sweet potatoes or peas. Among the many things we don’t know about our new baby is the gender….

My son gets a lot of things from me: his charming personality, his dashing good looks and his razor sharp intellect. Sure, he’s not yet four, but he can count up to 30 without leaving out more than one or two numbers and he has developed some stunning Candy Land strategies.

You Bastard!
Among the many other traits he’s inherited from me is the complete and total inability to stay asleep once the sun has risen.

This trait has …