What's In The Name
First off, I am required by my executive board to explain exactly what it is when I say that Rob hates babies. He doesn't really. He's extremely good with them and after ample experience, he can stave them off and keep them quiet and reasonably happy for hours at a time (better than I could if I couldn't nurse them, which is an unfair advantage). He just finds the newborn stage not so much fun. He thinks they're much more interesting when they can interact with other people. He wishes they'd be born at about four months old. I remind him that my babies are closer to four-month-olds than just about anyone's. And if we're shooting for honesty here, I loathe the age from about 18 months to 3 or so when my prime job is to socialize the kid. I think that all children should come with the Germ Theory of Disease in their bundled-from-Microsoft software; it creeps me out the way they want to caress toilets and lick garbage cans and the like. As for the name, we cho