Aug 13 2008
Baby-talk is cheap
Tonight, The Boyfriend and I visited a couple we know who had a baby two months ago. The father is Norwegian, we know him from uni, and the mother is German. He is really strong, wilful, and such a little man. He has loads of hair and it’s not like baby hair, it’s more like the hair of a thirty-year-old. Long, dark and thinning at the top. (Or is it filling in? )
Any who, he’s a pretty cool little guy. They tried to convince us he gets tetchy in the evenings, but I didn’t really see how. They let me hold him and all I had to do was tell him how handsome he is and say ‘boobies’ a couple of times, and he laughed his head off. Apparently you’re not supposed to talk baby talk to babies any more, but seriously, once you’ve got them there in your lap, looking so cute and babyish, how can you not do it? Beats me. We brought the camera but when we got there no pictures got taken, we were just so mesmerised by the little fella.
And no, I’m not sold on the whole baby idea just yet. I don’t want a little man hanging from my boob all day, nor the inevitable house arrest which follows the Miracle of Birth. Some day, though. And I hope whatever I end up with will be as cool as Vegard the Norweger.