Signs

Warning: Jane and Lucy please note that despite the following entry's positive view on children, I am well aware of the joy of temporary visits. We (despite Donna's apparent weakness for 9 year old girls) aren't softening. There are no kids in our future. Well at least not ours anyway. In fact it looks like there will be a lot of kids in our future. Enough I'm sure.
You see lately, it seems that every couple around us is pregnant or trying to get pregnant. All except one, but I'll come to that.
Thankfully, this recent pregnancy affliction doesn't seem to be contagious. It's kind of exciting though. We had friends over recently with their newly adopted little one and he was adorable. He cried only once and we were given ample warning from his mother. "As soon as this bottle is done, he'll start crying."
I wanted to comfort him - to let him know that feeling never goes away. That to this day I need to suppress that same urge when, say, the ice cream carton, or the Pringle tube, or the lasagna tray have nothing left to give. I suppose that wouldn't be much comfort though. Especially at his age.
Well anyway, before I knew it he was distracted and forgotten that the bottle was empty. He returned to the smiley face drunken midget he had been a few minutes earlier. All was well again and soon he was put to bed.
Now truth be told, it would seem that not every mother in our life would see us a good parents. As I alluded to earlier, we have a friend who has stopped trying. Is on a trying hiatus so to speak. You see, for reasons of her own, she doesn't want either a Scorpio child nor a Capricorn child. Too many other birthdays, she said. Too many other festivities, she said. Nothing whatsoever to do with Donna and I being both a Scorpio and a Capricorn.
So a word of warning to those other women. You are playing with fire. You've been trying right through the Scorpio - Capricorn window. You could end up with a kid like Donna or me. Or even Claudio Lopez.