I’m dreadfully sorry, I appear to have lowered the tone of the conversation! It’s time to make a stand and say I am confident in my ability to be all the dad my kids need without any outside help or artificial parental aids!

Incidentally, does anyone know how to get Titi Monkey mess out of a cream carpet?

thanks

Keith

PS – Eww, glad I don’t live in Germany!

His wife had a good laugh.

Hey, in Germany, it is considered healthy to drink an ounce of your own urine when you are first able to drink something other than mom’s milk (or if the family is inclined to, they all imbibe together- and although a common practice, most Deutschern would probably balk at the insinuation).

Aren’t you glad you are not there, Keith?

Another word of advice a long the line of diaper changing…

Keep a small cloth handy at your changing table or wherever you are taking care of his business. The Reason: When you take off his diaper, the fresh air to his “everything” may stimulate a fountain effect, especially as he gets older towards 4-6 months. It seems to be akin to the effect that warm water has, but more “energetic.”

If you aren’t ready for the altitude that can be achieved by a geyser of urine, you may end up scrubbing the furniture, the walls and your clothes. You may even have to clean him and his face off if he gets caught in his own back spray!

Scott

do we need another two mothers too? I am going to need a bigger house. With a Titi monkey enclosure. And definitely definitely no more children!

With my whole 10 weeks of experience with boys, would you like to know the one thing I wish someone had told us earlier than two weeks in? The thing that they told my sister in law at hospital when her fist was a boy, but not us, because we had a kid already and knew what we were doing?

When you change him, make sure everything’s pointing due south. Saves a lot of extra laundry and him needlessly waking up because his clothes are wet.

all the best

Keith

I did agree to be the 2nd father…as long as Angelina Jolie accepts the offer to be the 2nd mother. I’ll place my order on Amazon for a Titi monkey today!

Scott

Thanks and congratulations to you as well. We’re expecting our first boy (I have two girls 6 and 3) on Aug. 1. Looking forward to having a boy. I think we’ve finally settled on a name (just this week). I’ll be posting a picture when one is available.

And Scott, I thought you had agree to be the 2nd father.

I think that John and his wife are getting ready to conduct interviews to bring in a second father. It is so cool that they are open-minded and progressive enough to be willing to recognize their failings as parents and then take steps to overcome those shortcomings. They are hoping to find a second father who also happens to own a Titi Monkey…the best of both worlds.

If you read the study by Beckman (the anthropologist), he also discovered that children do better with 1.5 mothers. John’s not quite sure how they will handle that obstacle. I suggested that they begin interviewing dwarfs. John suggested a very short super model.

I’ll keep you posted as to what they decide.

That means that somewhere, Steve Beckerman has an equation for optimal quantities of fathers. Everyone else uses common sense to arrive at “1″, but an anthropologist will use a made up equation, into which you put made up numbers, and get, well, whadayaknow, the number you fisrt thought of!

Hang on, though, we’ve got two children, does that mean they only have half a whole dad each? Do we need three other guys living here with us? I’m going to need an extension.

By the way, congratulations about the expected baby! Our son is just 10 weeks old, it’s a real joy having a new baby in the house, even allowing for hard work and lack of sleep.

Hope everything goes well for you all

Keith