Sage wisdom from Paula

B and I are hitting the road and the airways again tomorrow to go meet my nephew and his cousin. We could not be more excited to snuggle the little man!! More specifically, I could not be more excited to snuggle baby T and Bennett could not be more excited to try to fit T's entire head in his mouth and start chewing.

I can think of so many ways in which our presence will not be helpful to the new parents. We will bring the additional chaos of two extra people and one of those extra people really loves to scream and squeal which will presumably wake up the baby. I am hopeful we can come up with some way to offset our inherent negative qualities though. I am great at running errands so hopefully they are experiencing a distressing shortage of paper towels and diapers.

Although I'm well aware that B and T are far too young to give a hoot about each other, I'm still pretty excited to watch them together. Based on what we know of these young men so far, they have absolutely nothing in common. Baby T is tall, thin, has sparse light hair, and is very sleepy. As a fetus, he was more of a roller than a kicker and seemed to generally be calm. B is none of these things. He is short, fat, needed a haircut before he was born, is perpetually awake, and has never been still since he was a zygote. If Ms. Abdul is to be believed, then these two boys are destined to be the best of friends. Hooray!

Opposites attract.
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Since I may be too busy disturbing the peace for the next few days to post anything, I'll leave you with these words of advice from another wise woman, my sister-in-law who is a veteran mom of three. When traveling by yourself with a baby, wear pants with an elastic waist. It's the only way you can pee in an airplane bathroom while holding an 18 lb fidgeter.

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