Juxtapose

I love this baby already. I saw it squirming around on the ultrasound and sucking its thumb, trying to make it difficult for Ultrasound Lady to take all the pictures she needed for all the views and I knew, pretty much right then, that this kid is going to be a troublemaker. Maybe it will have the fidgety demeanor of its mother, youngest uncle (Uncle Teds), and maternal grandfather. Maybe it just didn't like to have its space intruded on by someone poking at it from the outside world. Whatever it was, seeing it headbutt back in the direction of the ultrasound wand when Ultrasound Lady gently bopped it on the head to get it to turn around really made me smile and elicited a genuine LOL from Mark, a semi-rare event that makes me LOL a little bit myself (a less rare event). In keeping with the genetics of its oddball parents and all the oddballs of present and yore who made us this way, as well as the miracles God makes out of science, I really do hope that this kid is a character. I really like characters.