Analytical thinking

While Allen loves children and is a devoted big brother in the Big Brother Big Sister program, the idea of having a baby is a little bit too much for him, which has made for some pretty comical conversations.

It’s the engineer in him, really. Babies are not “practical” – his words, not mine! They don’t do anything, they cost a lot of money and they are a lot of work.

The more he tries to convince me that his reasoning is sound, the more I laugh and anticipate how he’s going to melt when we have a baby and he holds him or her for the first time. There’s not a doubt in my mind that Allen is going to be an unbelievably great dad. I’ve known this from the beginning and it’s one of the things that attracted me to him. He’s going to be the first to brag when our baby “smiles” (aka passes gas), rolls over and laughs. And he’s going to have so much fun teaching him or her how to ride a bike or drive mommy nuts :)

So in the meantime, I just laugh when he tells me that he’s not really interested in kids until they are old enough to do something – you know, like 10! Boy is he in for a world of surprise.