So this past weekend we had a pregnancy “scare”.  Now I may not have said this before so here it goes: we’ve talked about having another baby before and can’t decide if we do or don’t want it.  We like being able to focus solely on Aaron all the time and like that we will be able to send him to private school and also that Meri can start her nursing career (she’s in school now) soon since she had to put it on hold because we got pregnant before.  Now having said all of that, I took it really hard that we were not pregnant again.  Even though neither of us had made up our minds that we even wanted another kid, we both were kind of depressed that Meri got her period yesterday.  I took it a lot harder than Meri did.  Maybe it is because I’ve been so emotional for the past few months, I don’t really know.  I now know that I truly want another child.

It is a lot more feasible for me to want another child now because I am the one that Aaron looks to for play time.  He and I are good buddies and I think that he views me as his friend 99% of the time and his father the remaining 1%.  Meri does a lot of the parent-like things with him: most of his cooking, cutting his finger and toe nails, discipline, doctors appointments, carting him around to mothers day out and the babysitters house, medicine scheduling, etc.  I’m sure there are more but that is what I can think of off-hand.  I do his baths and put him to bed most nights and play with him from the time I get home until his bedtime.  Meri has to do all of the parenting things and go to school.  She is trying to get her career on-track and I’m just around to play with my little man Aaron.

As Meri was telling me that she was not pregnant, Aaron was in the playroom talking up a storm and laughing.  It made me wonder how could I not want another child when he or she could turn out as great as Aaron!  He’s such a joy to be around most of the time, he has his moments like most children do.  I can’t wait till we have another kid just as great as him.  Double the fun!