Big News

We bought a new car. Here's a picture of Anna with it.

We got it because Anna is scared to drive in the snow and it sometimes snows here. Pictures from Snowmageddon:

Some more big news, if you haven't heard, we will have a new passenger for the new car come July. Anna is pregnant, with a boy. He just better not spill anything in the backseat. I'm serious. I was thinking the other day about all the freedom I'm losing with the baby coming, but also of all the good things (besides the obvious). So I made a list. And being around family/friends/people-in-general-whom-I-consider-neither, I've had lots of practice learning the benefits of having kids.

1. I'll no longer have to babysit for free anymore. Now I can finally get something in return for watching other people's kids. Now I've got kids to watch. When you babysit other people's kids and you're an adult, you can't really get repaid. For me it's too awkward getting paid - mainly because I'm an adult and getting paid for babysitting puts me on the same level as a 12-year-old girl. As it stands, my babysitting in the past has been really just a favor. And being married for nearly five years now has given me plenty of these favors. A bonus of this is that now I'm able to finally cash in on all that free babysitting. So if I've watched your kids in the last five years, it's my turn. Looks like I've got my Friday nights cleared for the next year. A side note to this is now I have an excuse when someone wants me to watch their kids at their house. Before kids, I was forced to go to someone's house so that their kid could be put to bed at home. This is one of my least favorite things to do. I basically have to mosey around in someone's house for three hours. Someone who usually has no cable TV and nothing to eat. I'm so glad that I will never be in this predicament again. For those of those of you who we have turned down (a recent favorite past time of ours), we will still ask you just as many times as you've asked us. We've been keeping track.
2. Anytime I don't want to do anything, I'll just use my kid as an excuse. "Really wish I could, but bedtime is 5:30, so...you know. Sorry."

Things I won't like:
1. Apparently, I won't be able to do anything at all for the next thirty years. That's just what I've heard, a lot, as in, "Me and Bobby haven't done ANYTHING together in SO long. I mean, I forget that we're even married sometimes."
2. Women and mothers being condescending about my parenting skills, because I'm a man.
3. It's also going to be hard because our blog will have to go private when our kid is born because we know there are all those perverts on the internet looking for pictures of kids at the birthday parties and the zoo. Kidding. I hate private blogs. I have thought about this before, and it was pointed out by someone else, but it is highly unlikely that random people are coming across your blog and then trying to abduct your kids. Unless your daughter is Jonbenet Ramsey. (Too soon?) All these parents need to cool it. "Ohmygosh, some guy in Shawnee, Kansas is looking at our blog. Do you know anyone in Kansas? I don't. He must want to steal our baby."