New dad rant

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. 2009 will be a big year for the Carters. The plan is to try and catch up with the Dugger’s. They already have 18 kids so we have some catching up to do. No way!!!! Tina would have me fixed one way or another before we got anywhere close to 18.

Olivia is doing fine. Our next Doc visit is 1/7 to take a good look at her heart. That is the last major ultrasound we will have. After that all the others will be just to keep an eye on her to make sure she does not get too big. After all Tina does not what to have a baby girl like that 14 pound baby delivered last month. So far all systems are go for a early to mid April birth. With that in mind please feel free to leave your due date and time guess as a comment and I will track them. Whoever is closes we will try and work out some kind of surprise for them.

We are all signed up to take our new parents classes from the doctor/hospital. A 12 hour crash course on how to care for a newborn. I don’t mind saying that I spent more time learning about battles of World War II to earn my History degree. I must say that fact scares me! I think they must have some misconception that I know ANYTHING about babies. Are they out of their minds; where is the owners manual? I know ladies your all saying why does he need that MEN DON’T READ THEM ANYWAY!!!!!!!

Don’t tell the other guys but the reason we like to know where the manual is that it gives us peace of mind. It allows us to sleep knowing that if things get screwed up we can look it up.

Not with a baby. No Manual here. Dr Spock, please. If the tire falls off my bike I the manual will tell me how to fix it. Now if a baby cries; that can mean a 100 different things. WHERE IS MY MANUAL.

And that my friends is why new parents don’t sleep.