Last night, we hung out with our friends who are expecting a baby boy one month before Norbit is due. After inhaling some Korean food (all you can eat BBQ for $14.99!) and enjoying some dessert, Mommy Ji said to us 'I hope our baby isn't ugly. You'll tell us if he is, right?' I laughed, because of the brutal honesty and true concern in her question, and the fact that this is a topic Helen and I have discussed in the past about our own baby.
We have friends and family members who all have REALLY cute kids, except for maybe one or two fugly ones, (j/k) so the pressure is on to produce beautiful offspring. As a result, we made a couples' pact with our dinner friends that we'd tell each other if our babies are ugly. Helen said it best when she explained to Ji, 'If we have a girl, and we tell you the arranged marriage between our children is off, then you'll know.'
I imagine many parents have a secret fear of having an ugly baby, but are probably too polite to talk about it, since all babies are miracles, pretty in their own way, etc. I guess our friends and we either have no shame, or are just that vain that we'll discuss it openly with one another. Don't worry J & J, your boy will be cute no matter what that machine at Gameworks, which morphs both of your faces together to provide a composite of your future child's looks, showed. In fact, I'm sure your son already has a spot reserved in the most exclusive club in the world:
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Hey which Korean BBQ Buffet? I've been looking for one here. Was it worth going? Oh yeah...hope the other thing (something about a baby) is going ok.
ReplyDeleteIt was a place down in FW. J&J know the name. It was pretty good. The meat and seafood weren't the freshest I've ever tasted, but it was pretty good, and very plentiful! The plates just kept on coming...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you won't have anything to worry about in this arena, but rest assured that the family is only too happy to point out any shortcomings in physical traits or abilities of people's child(ren)... Remember the "crooked toe"? LOL
ReplyDeleteHelen has already told me she hopes the baby doesn't have some of my less desirable traits.
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