Squee! My baby spoilers are on Thursday.

Awesome! We'll have a spoilerfest! I'm so excited for you and E. Lotsa babies for neat people is always fun. And I think this year is definitely providing that.

having my first be a boy would just be weird.

You probably already know this, but they can pee up! Heh.

Laughed myself hysterical that the first time brother changed the neph's diaper (it was something like the third, with nurses responsible for the first two) he got peed on. Even better was the fact I witnessed it! You'd think, but no.

I totally agree, Jess. Her pregnancy belly is way too perfectly round -- it's like they just stuck an exercise ball under her shirt or something .

You probably already know this, but they can pee up!

Oh yes -- hence the invention of the pee pee teepee.

I've always found that invention hysterical. Mainly because brother was the one who insisted it was unneeded, because he'd know, you know? And me, whose only kids are nannied kids, was like um, well, heheheheh.

Yes, I love to mock my brother.

A girl would be a whole new batch of mocking!

Speaking from experience, big brothers are great! My sister and I both hoped that my brother's first kid would be a boy, and he was.

Speaking of evil girls, my sister is out visiting my mom and brother this week. They just got back from dinner at bro's, and Sis told me that she paid the youngest nephew (10-y.o.) $3 to throw a biscuit at his dad. My SIL started yelling at the kid after he lobbed it at Kip ("I don't care who told you to, you don't throw food in this house, especially not at your father!"), and was horrified when she saw Kris pay up at the end of the evening ("What's the money for? What do you mean, you paid him to throw that?!?"). Kris was giggling while telling me this, and told me that she also reminded the youngest about what she taught him the last time she was visiting--how to blow the wrapper off a straw at an appropriate target (preferably, his dad). SIL almost threw her out of the house.

My mom is notorious (she's the youngest girl, followed by the only boy) for teaching my twin cousins to slurp soup. My uncle (the youngest) taught them all sorts of interesting ways to clean house and make salad.

(My dad was the one to teach us the straw wrappers and spitballs at Peter Piper Pizza. Mom was not amused until 20 years later.)

I'm not a younger sibling, but am looking for things to teach the niecphews that make their parents look at me funny. I fear I'm falling down on the job, cause my brother is pretty crazy already.

I fear I'm too old for Veronica Mars. This is the second time I've tried to watch it, but I just can't. Veronica so wants to be Buffy, she even sounds like her. I have no idea what her sidekick's name is, but she always gets called "Willow" in my head. I try to like it, because so many peeps here do, but it's not working.

I tried to teach my nephew to say, "That's bananas Grammie."

It didn't work out, but he's got, "Uh oh spaghetti-oh" down.

Allyson, get the boy Flanimals. Really. You might get equated something utterly bizarre, but they are nicely warped and appealing to that age group. Great way to make the family tilt their heads!

OK, I went to put together tomorrow's dinner and... I lost a bag of cheese. Weird. God knows where I put it.