Dad's Corner: The Halfway Point

Today we are at the halfway point in the pregnancy.  Danielle is still getting bigger as you can tell by the pictures, and, even though he's grown a lot, the baby still has a long way to go, so she's only going to get bigger.  It's certainly a strange transformation to see for the first time, but quite amazing as well.

Now that we've found out the sex of the baby, we're starting to work on names again.  It has been requested that we start a list of suggested names.  The only way I've found to do this so far is to have people suggest names in the comments (either this post or any other) and then I'll add them to the list in the side bar on the right.  If I find a better way, I'll make sure to set it up.

It's exciting to know I have a son coming.  Of course, my number one desire is to have a happy and healthy baby.  That said, I can't help but feel some excitement that I'll be buying remote control toys and building blocks instead of pink stuffed animals and purple dresses (let me just say right now that if my son wants to wear a purple dress and play with pink stuffed animals, I will love him just the same.  Heck, I'd even go to a father and son-in-a-purple-dress dance with him if that's what he wants.  Besides, who hasn't worn a purple dress at least once in their lifetime.  Perhaps it was in college when your friends said that they were all doing it and to just show up at the party in the dress and they'd all be there in their purple dresses too and you can all have a laugh, but then you show up and you're the only one in the purple dress and people start pointing and laughing and taking pictures that show up all over the internet the next day.  But I digress.)  There's all kinds of toys I can't wait to pretend to buy for him that are really for me.  Down the line I may be buying dolls, but at least for now, I'll be buying toys I can play with too.

Baby's words of wisdom: "Mom and dad, you need to understand I'm developing ears now.  Ears are what I use to hear.  That means I can hear everything you say.  Yes, even when you whisper those 'sweet' nothings Casanova.  By the way, it's a miracle I was even conceived with such gems as, 'If you loved me, you would get me another beer'."