Personality

I'm interested to see how Wiley's personality turns out, I'm really looking forward to it.

When I was a baby I was very happy, apparently every time I tried to cry I'd start laughing (I don't know how true that is--there is a video of me where I start to cry and then clearly blank out, though). Patrick was apparently also a great baby. I've seen way more photos of him crying than me, though (just saying). It's funny because his mom insists that I lucked out by having a boy in that girls are too emotional. Another friend said how a little girl would probably be just like me and it would drive me crazy. I don't think either of those are true even if people say it is. I mean, yes, little girls can be emotional, but I've also seen little boys be that way. It depends on the child and their environment more than anything. I did become whiney as I got older, apparently--but I was never very dramatic as a child (definitely not more-so than other children, boy and girl). I could fall and hurt myself and I'd get right back up and move on. As I got older I threw temper tantrums in Picadilly Cafeteria every Sunday after church (my aunt and uncle would take me and the rest of the family), but that was just me being a kid (I only remember it one time, I threw a fit because I wanted pudding and jello--but my family had a joke about it, I would do it so often).

I am a lot like my mom, but I think more of that is how I was raised since I only had my mother and no father to look up to. Compared to my mother, though, I think I'm generally relatively calm, more logical (or rather, I think logically more often before reacting) and quicker to forgive as well as apologize to keep the peace. Do I share a lot in common with her? Yes, but not near as much as my brother. My mom is also super much like my grandfather whereas my uncle is more like my grandmother...

But because all my family and Patrick's mom have gone on about how great of babies we both were I'm interested to see if Wiley is also a great baby or if he's going to be a little hellion. I suspect he'll be good, but no matter what I'm sure I'll think he's good because he's my precious baby boy.

I hope he has Patrick's calmness a little more than my quick-temper. I want him to have Patrick's optimism, too... but with a healthy dose of reality-check. I want him to be smart, for sure... but other than that I want him to be whatever he wants to be. I wonder if me being an artist and Patrick being a musician will inspire him or if he'll think he'll never be as good so he finds something else to be good at (or if he's good at both).

I guess I was thinking all this because of the dresser we got for him, how we're lining it with something sentimental to Patrick. We both have some of our favorite old books to give him. I still have many old toys (some he'll get, some he won't). I have my old suitcase I took to my aunt and uncle's every Sunday when I went with them to church then spent the day with them and that's going to be Wiley's now, of course.

Anyway, we'll see. Lupe is trying to attack the cat (she's playing but he's just interested in food and is probably going to smack the crap out of her in a second) so I'm going to separate them.