Gah! Wee little red-faced newborn! Proud big brother! Big brother with gorgeous bird!

Am now ded. Please send pronouns.

I love those newborn baby-burritos. Those pictures are awesome.

SO cute!!

D is REALLY competing with mom & dad to take care of T. He wants to change his diapers. He get ornery when they give T a bottle. HE wants to do it. It's really quite sweet. He's in love. Just wait until T can take away his toys...

You have a beautiful family there, sarameg.

But it seems like you can catch it casually--not through sneezing but through contact like cuddling and kissing. So if the government does not have a right to put strong pressure on you, that means you think you have a right to endanger others, or that others have a right to endanger your kids.

Even if it is just through sexual contact how many parents can 100% guarantee that their kids aren't going to have sex? Many would like to believe that they can guarantee that, but the reality is, they really don't have that level of control.

Wow, sarameg's family is all good-looking. And above average!

Even if it is just through sexual contact how many parents can 100% guarantee that their kids aren't going to have sex? Many would like to believe that they can guarantee that, but the reality is, they really don't have that level of control.

That kind of attitude -- "My kid doesn't need to be vaccinated for HPV/learn about birth control, because MY kid won't engage in immoral activity." -- makes me seethe.

I have (had?) a friend who's my age, who told me -- when we were 22-23 years old -- in all seriousness, that he knew he would never have to worry about HIV, because he wasn't going to have sex until he was married (and he was not married at the time of this conversation), and he would NEVER marry someone who had ever put herself in a situation that might expose her to HIV.

Y'see, it was the 1990s, and he was realistic enough to know that, at the age of 23, he wasn't very likely to find another virgin to marry. So he accepted the fact that he would probably marry someone who had actually had The Sex. However, it was his sanctimonious attitude that just *killed* me -- HE would NEVER marry someone who had been in a situation that exposed her to HIV.

He was so naive, I wanted to smack him senseless. Like only crackwhores and energetically promiscuous gay men were likely to get infected with HIV. Grrr.

I thought I read some where that the HPV vaccine could cause problems if someone got it and already had HPV, which is why there was an upper age limit. But maybe that's changed.

Also that there isn't a vaccine for boys because there were some icky side effects for boys.

I knew a young woman in her early twenties who'd never had a pelvic exam or pap smear. Her logic was she was virgin and therefore had never done anything to need an exam. Several of us tried to tell her it was just basic health care for women, but she had it in her head that you only needed one after you had sex.

Thanks, y'all. They are the pretty branch of the family. It's kind of funny, when I've been out with SIL, brother and kid, I get mistaken for the wife. Why? Cause my brother and his wife look more alike than brother and I. I'm the only one with freckles and darker hair. D is the spitting image of my brother at that age. And his baby pix look an awful lot like SIL. He got her nose and her lovely eyebrows. It's neat.