Right now I’m watching two two-year olds: Aaron and Anika. Anika is our neighbor’s daughter and we’re watching her because her mom just gave birth to their new son. After some initial silliness from myself, these two are playing like they actually like each other! They actually love each other, they are about the closest that two children can be that don’t live with each other.

Any thoughts I had of having two children right now have been put on hold thanks to these two unless Meri can guarantee me that she will always be around (physically less that 100 feet from me)! Just having two around is enough to make me want to drink myself to sleep. Maybe I just need to wait until I’m 30 to have my other baby. I don’t think I have the patience or energy for two kids right now. The problem then becomes that the older I get, the less energy I’m supposed to have but I’m supposed to have more patience. Where is the happy medium?

All kidding aside, I like having had Anika around these past two days. It’s very nice for Aaron to have a friend so close and able to interact with him so readily. Now that I think about it a bit more, maybe having two children isn’t such a farout idea.