In addition to shooting the pin match mentioned below, I also attended a wedding this weekend. At this weekend, I held a baby. Now, anyone who has met me and inquired about whether Mrs. Ahab and I will be having a passel of children anytime soon has heard my response of “not if I can help it”.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Ahab snagged this picture of me holding a co-worker’s infant, which is not helping my team.
This is the part where a big chunk of my female readers go “awwwwwww”.
on Jul 28th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Go home, make babies. Start NOW. Hurry!
on Jul 28th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I saw a really cuite on on the Subway today. I called the wife to let her know.
For us, Weer’d-lings will be sooner rather than later!
on Jul 28th, 2008 at 10:33 am
It’s true, I did go “awwwwwwww.”
I was also super startled and finished the title as “Mrs. Ahab - do not read this post…then you will see me holding my illigitimate child.”
on Jul 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Oh, go have a couple. You’ll be glad you did. It’s really different when it’s your own kid. And seriously, you don’t want to wait too long. You don’t want to be really old when your youngest are just getting to be really interesting adults.
on Jul 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
apparently men with babies of their own are chick magnets.
on Jul 29th, 2008 at 2:23 am
What he said… +1 to RobK’s comment…
We started late (because of me) and now I regret we only had one.
on Jul 29th, 2008 at 10:09 am
See honey, everyone else thinks we should have a baby.
on Jul 29th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Fight it, man, fight it.
That “Hold the Baby” trick is exactly that: A trick. It always ends up as a photo that gets shown to your S/O and mother (and MIL) so that they can add pressure to your life.
People with children don’t enjoy it as much as they say they do and they want you to be just as unhappy.
Dogs are much better home companions for you and the wife:
They protect, they don’t need protecting
They’ clean the cat turds from your yard fetch the birds you shoot.
You don’t have to buy them shoes every six months
They don’t need their own bedroom and you don’t get in trouble with the authorities for making them sleep outside when they behave badly.
No college tuition
If you go to the park and keep them on a leash, no one notices.
And if you use said leash to tie them to a tree or fence post, you don’t have to go to jail.
Win-Win-Win
Fight it!
on Jul 29th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Children give you the chance to enjoy things you forgot you enjoyed. Plus we need new generations of shooters and hunters. It is your duty and you will find pleasure when you have children.
The love and feeling are indescribable. Have one or better, two so they can bother each other and have a sister or brother to back them up.