Dad's Corner: The pink or the blue?

First, I'd like to start an online petition and I think everyone should sign.  The petition is to strongly encourage Danielle to start slowing down concerning work.  School has started, so she's in work mode now, coming home late and bringing work home.  All those in favor, sign below!

This week we find out the sex of the baby.  Everyone has their intuitions and voodoo methods that predict whether the baby is a boy or a girl, and that's why we've had an equal number of guesses for each.  There was a rumor that we wouldn't tell people when we find out, but we will.  I might make it a puzzle you have to solve, but we'll still tell everyone.  As far as my guess, all I can say is that the baby has been extremely well behaved, hasn't made his/her mom sick, eats like a horse, and prefers bright colored maternity clothes.

We appreciate all of the baby advice we've been given.  So far, we've learned the following:

• You should put the baby's crib in your bedroom for the first 6 months, but never put the baby's crib in your bedroom.
• Wait until you figure out what kind of stroller you need, but get a stroller right away, you'll definitely need it.
• Install the car seat yourself, but never install the car seat yourself, it's too hard.

You get the idea.

A couple weekends ago, Danielle and I started our baby registry.  It was very overwhelming.  Walking into a Babies R Us is like walking into a foreign country where men are not allowed to venture out on their own.  There were pregnant women and children every where!  Every once in a while, I'd spot a fellow man clinging tightly to his wife, dodging screaming kids with fluffy toys.  Granted there were a few veterans, men who'd done tours here before and knew the aisles and areas to avoid better than us rookies.  One guy came in alone chatting on his cell phone like a lost tourist wandering into the bad part of town.  I tried to warn him, but before he knew what hit him, he was spinning in circles, a gang of 5-year-olds playing ring-around-the-rosie trapping him.  Despite all of that, it was good to actually test out some of the items.  After a few frustrating fold-ups, transforms, and disassemblies, I realized engineers that fail out of school must become baby product designers.  They couldn't have made some of these things harder to operate.  I look forward to many years of frustration.

Baby's words of wisdom: "I could be a momma's boy or daddy's little girl, but I'll never be a Yankee fan.  And the Patriots will still win the AFC East."