Today we spent the day on the road, with each stop filled with babies. First we ran into Boston to meet Liz and Susan from Xavier. It was an RA reunion. I felt the need to turn my music up real loud and hide six packs under my jacket. Susan brought her boyfriend Patrick, while Liz and Asheem brought baby Maya with them. Here is Maya's website. She was SUPER cute, with big blue eyes and deep dimples. And when she needed to take a nap her Dad, the baby whisperer as Liz calls him, walked away for three minutes and came back with a snuggly sleepy baby girl. Maybe a baby girl wouldn't be too bad ;) I feel bad for her parents though when high school starts. It might be shotgun polishin' time.

After that it was down to Lil' Rhodey for Grandma Kenahan's birthday. Myles and Colby were constantly entertaining. Here is their website. Myles showed us his game face. It was awesome. I will post if I can. That kid is just hilarious.

T minus five days and counting.

How's Harrison Richard for a boy's name?

Here is Myles' game face, he means BUSINESS:

I was driving into work today and I was thinking about Peanut. There are all kinds of things that Peanut will see entirely differently from Bianca and I. These are little things that we are stunned or surprised by that Peanut will just take for granted. Here are just a few:

Good:

Peanut will never know a world without a black president. To him or her this is just going to be a matter of history, as opposed to some hypothetical yearning. How crazy great is that? I am grateful that Peanut will never associate race with opportunity, or at least he or she will do so much less than we did. I'd also be really grateful if Peanut never heard or said the "n" word. I know that is not going to happen, but it is nice to dream.

Bad:

Peanut may never see a polar bear outside of a zoo. According to all kinds of sources polar bears in the wild are not long for this world. So recycle, compost, do whatever. I want Peanut to be able to go see a polar bear if he or she wants in the Artic. Maybe Peanut will run into the incredibly rare prizzly bear. Or is that a grolar bear?

I don't know:

Peanut will probably never own an incandescent flashlight. He or she will DEFINITELY on some kind of light, but it will not be an incan.

Good:

It is almost a certain that the greatest baseball player of all time, by the time Peanut is old enough to care, will be a Latin American ballplayer (either A Rod or, more likely, Albert Pujols). How cool is that? Forever kids, like me, knew the Babe was the best. Then there was Barry Bonds (Dad, don't make a face, it is not really up for dispute). But if Albert Pujols keeps playing like he has he will pass the Babe and Barry in about 7-9 years, as far as best ever is concern.

Bad:

Peanut will never know the joys of hiding away on a lazy Saturday afternoon and reading a paper almanac or an encyclopedia to discover cool facts like the Komodo Dragon is capable of parthenogenesis. There is something super awesome about stumbling on facts in a paper book that the internet can't replicate. It is really good at finding stuff you are looking for, but the random cool fact, like the world's tallest man made structure is now the Burj Dubai at 2,720 feet tall, is hard to encounter on the web.

I don't know:

Peanut will never know firsthand what a Polaroid is. They were kinda stupid even when I was a kid, but the idea of an instant camera could be cool, if the pictures were clear, they developed quicker, and they were less receptive to fingerprints. In other words, they weren't Polaroids.

I am sure more of these random facts will hit me as we await his or her arrival.

January 15th, after that we will no longer have to use the phrase "his or hers". SWEET.

Yes it is still snowy and cold. Yes I will keep posting until woman, work, or weather interrupt me.

In the gadget world over the past few years there has been this new video phenomenon called the "unboxing video". Say you waited in line for 21 bladder-bursting hours for the new game system, what should you do with it (besides eBay)? Record yourself opening it. There are unboxing videos for EVERYTHING. The iPhone 3GS, the Droid, the Wii, the PS3. I have even seen unboxing videos for flashlights (yes I searched for them, so what). Search Google (or Bing for those MS fans) for unboxing videos and you will find hundreds if not thousands of morons removing gadgets from cardboard with reverence usually reserved for the Pontiff's Mitre (the funny chess piece hat the Pope wears).

So in the tradition of inane Youtube videos and ridiculous consumerism, we bring you the unboxing of our new stroller. I know we should have waited, but the stroller is not easy to find and god forbid we have another "Knight Rider" incident, so we just bought it. Also, we couldn't help ourselves, Bianca and I were both very excited.

Here is Bianca and I unboxing the Phil and Ted Classic (thanks again Erica for the Mom-in-the-know recommendation):