Jordan's ideal child

It could be argued that my brothers and I grew up as quite eccentric children. I mean all kids are weird, there's no way around that, but melting crayons in tin foil pots in the basement (did we start the house on fire once? I think we might have...) and dragging broken frozen tree branches half-way across the neighborhood to build a teepee are not things I've found to be common childhood experiences amongst most of my friends. Maybe we were a generation behind or something because we didn't live on video games and tv shows. At any rate, everyone wonders what their child will be like. Clearly, we have some responsibility in molding this human being, teaching it different ways of relating to its surroundings here on earth, all those things. But really, at the end of the day, this kid will have a personality all its' own and there's not much we can do about that.

My brother, Jordan, sends us almost weekly emails with links to cat-related youtube vidoes. This week, he sends us one saying " I hope you have a kid like this." Coming from Jordan, such a phrase could mean almost anything...an alien, a mongoloid with 3 arms and 2 noses, who knows. So, I opened this email with a smile already on my face knowing it would be entertaining in some way. Yes, very funny indeed. However, the reality hit me that it's very likely Jordan just might get his wish. We don't know if we're having a boy or girl, but I don't even know if that would make a difference in the likelyhood of us experiencing a child with this animated personality. Here is the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my

Oh, forgot to mention, we had that book growing up, the exact one...brown weird book called "Kittens." I remember the pictures and all. I don't think WE did voiceovers like that, but my dad sure did, and I would not be suprised if baby Ruiz grows up to do the same. Yikes.

So goes life, I suppose. I am excited to see all the crazy stunts our kid pulls...I mean discipline will be in order an stuff, but seriously, kids are the most creative beings on earth. I think my only difficulty with kids is that I enjoy watching them and seeing what their minds come up with, how those ideas materialize, etc, but I don't exactly know how to respond aside from laughing. I'm sure parenting skills will come with time, and thankfully, Jonathan has some crazy natural sense of "fathering" (maybe from teaching?). I guess once your kid does the same dumb thing more than twice, and it causes your other kid to cry, its just not funny anymore. Ok yea, now I understand why parents don't always laugh. Geez, how am I a "parent?!".

Anyhow, that's about all. Just wanted to share that video as many of you will directly understand how our child could very well be like that little girl. Wow.