Harrison the thoughts
Now for a little raving.
I would like to share the thoughts going through my head when i found out i was having a boy. We it goes something like this....
A Boy " Great he's going to turn out like me! "
A Boy " Dad will be happy. Someone to continue the name"
A Boy " Cool i might not miss out that much at Christmas and birthdays "
A Boy " Damn now i have to toilet train him. That was our deal"
A Boy " I will have to get fit to keep up with him."
Then it was "Oh My God i have to look after and think of someone else apart from myself."
Thoughts now that are coming to mind: I will have to share my toys with him :) i don't share well. But i will have someone to take fishing even if i don't like fishing that much. Dad will love that when i go up to Darwin.
I am going to have to adjust a bit now as we were expecting to have a girl and i had almost worked myself up to the fact that Jodi would be able to do most of the looking after her. But now It is going to be a boy i will be the one doing more. Although it might end up the other way around as i will be hiding somewhere out the back in a shed trying to avoid changing nappies.
It still really hasn't sunk in that we are even having a baby. Jodi is hardly showing and until he comes out screaming and we have to take him home i don't think it will. I am a person that if i don't see it in front of me i don't believe it is real. That's how i can save at the moment i move the money on the screen in the bank and i never get to physically see it doesn't exist.
I am looking forward to it even if i sound like i am scared out of my tree. I just hope that he is more ambitious than i am. I hope he listens to me when he is young and not when he is too old like me.
This also means that the idea of a second child is almost certain as Jodi wants a Girl so we will have to try again. Better time it better this time. We have not decided the delay before the next one yet. This is hard because you don't want this one to miss out on the attention because you have to focus on another little baby. But you also don't want the delay to be to great and they are not close when growing up because the age difference is too great. I would prefer a 1 to 2 year gap more towards 3 years. Then they are almost old enough not to need constant attention to amuse them. However i think mush older that 3 years and the age difference becomes to far and they don't go through school together, He doesn't look out for his younger brother/sister. I Hope being part of a big family likes jodi's helps in the family bonding. I sometimes wish we had not lived in Darwin away from all my cousins. But if i hadn't then things would be a whole lot different.
Anyway enough of my ravings. I am happy i will be a Dad i hope to bring up my son with some of the values and wisdom my father tried to impart on me at a young age and never really sunk in till i was older.
Night
I would like to share the thoughts going through my head when i found out i was having a boy. We it goes something like this....
A Boy " Great he's going to turn out like me! "
A Boy " Dad will be happy. Someone to continue the name"
A Boy " Cool i might not miss out that much at Christmas and birthdays "
A Boy " Damn now i have to toilet train him. That was our deal"
A Boy " I will have to get fit to keep up with him."
Then it was "Oh My God i have to look after and think of someone else apart from myself."
Thoughts now that are coming to mind: I will have to share my toys with him :) i don't share well. But i will have someone to take fishing even if i don't like fishing that much. Dad will love that when i go up to Darwin.
I am going to have to adjust a bit now as we were expecting to have a girl and i had almost worked myself up to the fact that Jodi would be able to do most of the looking after her. But now It is going to be a boy i will be the one doing more. Although it might end up the other way around as i will be hiding somewhere out the back in a shed trying to avoid changing nappies.
It still really hasn't sunk in that we are even having a baby. Jodi is hardly showing and until he comes out screaming and we have to take him home i don't think it will. I am a person that if i don't see it in front of me i don't believe it is real. That's how i can save at the moment i move the money on the screen in the bank and i never get to physically see it doesn't exist.
I am looking forward to it even if i sound like i am scared out of my tree. I just hope that he is more ambitious than i am. I hope he listens to me when he is young and not when he is too old like me.
This also means that the idea of a second child is almost certain as Jodi wants a Girl so we will have to try again. Better time it better this time. We have not decided the delay before the next one yet. This is hard because you don't want this one to miss out on the attention because you have to focus on another little baby. But you also don't want the delay to be to great and they are not close when growing up because the age difference is too great. I would prefer a 1 to 2 year gap more towards 3 years. Then they are almost old enough not to need constant attention to amuse them. However i think mush older that 3 years and the age difference becomes to far and they don't go through school together, He doesn't look out for his younger brother/sister. I Hope being part of a big family likes jodi's helps in the family bonding. I sometimes wish we had not lived in Darwin away from all my cousins. But if i hadn't then things would be a whole lot different.
Anyway enough of my ravings. I am happy i will be a Dad i hope to bring up my son with some of the values and wisdom my father tried to impart on me at a young age and never really sunk in till i was older.
Night
posted by Phil at 11:46 PM
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Glad to hear you are thinking in the real world now - Hope you are right and it is a boy second name is "Edward" HEL
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