As a little girl when you play house with your dolls and pretend Mommy Barbie and Daddy Barbie have baby Barbie. You have Daddy Barbie helping Mommy Barbie in every way. Changing diapers, holding baby, feeding baby; whatever Mommy Barbie does, so does Daddy Barbie. Fast forward twenty years and somewhere in the deep recesses of your brain you still think this is going to be the case! And according to most all my friends, its not! Now who knows once Baby Wink arrives what Hubby might do but so far he has been a dream!
I have actually been quite amused with Hubby. As soon as he found out we were expecting he has talked to my belly (never mind the fact that I told him the baby couldn't hear him until 18 weeks) but for some reason takes on a robot voice every time! "Hel- lo-Ba-by-this-is-Da-ddy-speak-ing. What-are-you-do-ing-in-there?" Our little bundle is going to think its half android or it may already be thinking (13 years ahead of its time) that its Dad is weird! But hey, Hubby is taking an interest and interacting with the baby, so I am thrilled.
I was cleaning the house recently along with Hubby (yes we share the work) and had swept a mess into a big pile and was ready to sweep it into the dust pan when he walked into the room. He immediately got a panicked look on his face and told me I wasn't allowed to do that because I was pregnant. "Bend over?" I asked him sarcastically and he himed and hawed and finally gave in. Not to mention now every time I get in the car he tells me to put on my seat-belt (even though I have never ridden in a car without one and it is usually on when he says it). I talked to him on the phone recently and he very dramatically told me how he was dealing with the mortality of life right now and was "EVEN GOING THE SPEED LIMIT ON MY MOTORCYCLE!!!" He was in awe of himself!
Another evening we had dinner with friends and were walking to the car when I remembered I had bought an outfit for Baby Wink that day. I ran to the car to show my friend and I assumed Hubby would roll his eyes and tell me I didn't need to spend any money or something to that effect. Instead he got all dreamy looking and softly announced that he could not wait to meet our baby! I almost cried it was so sweet! When we got the stroller and infant car seat travel system, Hubby immediately had to try everything out. He installed it in his car, pressed every button, pulled every cord and said he would be reading the entire instruction book. After he knew how to install it in his car he asked me if I was ready to put it in my car!!!! I said thank you but that thing will be in my car for the next 10 years, let's not expedite the process. It can wait 5 months! His look of disappointment almost made me change my mind.... almost.
My Christmas present this year was a crib Hubby built by hand because he was just so excited about being a Daddy. It was so sweet and I loved the thought but its too low, the stain scares me if the child decides to gnaw, the dowels aren't regulation width and I am sure I am just scratching the surface of what could be harmful to our child. Hubby didn't care. He was so proud. He said he didn't care if we ever used it, he just wanted to see if he could do it. HAHA! We agreed to use it as a toddler bed when Baby outgrows the crib.A friend gave us a Baby k'Tan (for those of you as new to this as me, its a baby wrap thing that is like a jersey version of a Baby Bjorn) that she had used. As soon as I showed Hubby he had to try it out. He got online, found the video instructions for putting it on and was soon carrying our 6 pound Chorkie, Phoebe, around the house while he was taking a work phone call. They both loved it!
I can go on and on about Hubby's funny, excited antics since he found out he was going to be a Daddy but I am just thankful to have such an involved and loving husband that already loves our child so much! Thank you Hubby and I love you so much!
This is absolutely precious...he sounds pretty great!! :)
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