Proper Baby Etiquette

I was looking at pictures of baby Delanie and thinking that she is so cute! I can see both Karl and Monica in her. She going to be a dark skin, dark eyed little peanut. She is the kind of baby that people will walk up to and say: "she's so adorable!" What about the babies that aren't adorable? Let's be honest, there are babies out their that are just plain ugly. Don't get me wrong, I think all babies are precious and deserving of love no matter how hideous they look, but when you peek inside a baby stroller your looking for that cute little bundle of squishy flesh. Seeing that just makes people smile. What happens when you peek inside and you see a baby that looks like its been run over by a lawn roller? Your immediate reaction is to say: "Oh my God!", but you have to control yourself, (a): because you don't want to hurt the parents feelings, and (b): because if you startle the baby it will start to cry and an ugly baby is even uglier when it's crying. Now since you've made the gesture to look inside the stroller you are pretty much obligated to comment. What do you say? "Oh my gosh, I've never seen such an ugly baby." Not the right thing to say, it just makes you sound shallow. Save those comments for later. You don't want to say; "Oh it's so cute" either. First of all, never call a baby, "it". That is just adding insult to injury because the parents know their baby is ugly even if they don't say it out loud. So calling their ugly baby "it" is really a low blow. Secondly, if you say a baby is cute and it isn't, then that makes you a liar. Nobody likes a liar. It's better to use words like: "precious" and "God's little miracle." Those are safe terms since they describe babies as a group in general. The next issue is the sex of the baby. Some parents get offended when you call their baby the wrong sex. That's just stupid. Babies are usually bald, wrinkly and sleeping. So unless they are dressed in the traditional color coded pink for girls, and blue for boys, then it's a toss up. But again, don't say; "Is it a boy or girl?" Say; "Is your baby a boy or girl?" Remember the term "it" should be avoided. Sometimes though you'll see a baby dressed in pink with a pink blanket and stroller, and a pink bow in its hair and some moron will ask; "oh is it a boy or girl?" It's best to just ignore those people because they are idiots. I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about ugly babies in our family. McKee descendants have the cute baby gene.

Happy Birthday Henry

Oh Henry, Happy Birthday! I hope you have a wonderful Birthday and get to eat lots of cake. Bryan says "Hi!" Love and Kisses!