I’m going to be an UNCLE!!!
"Wait... whaaaa?! Can I be an uncle too?!" - Jason
Yes Jason, you will be an Uncle too!
So, long story short, my sister is due in July (the projected date of the 13th is on the cow plot)!!! At Thanksgiving this past year, Nate and Jina announced the excellent news by Jina taking off her sweatshirt, revealing a NY Giants helmet on a white t-shirt with an arrow pointing down to her tummy and words stating “Future little Giants fan”. The revealing, by the way, apparently was REALLY subtle… So subtle that Corinn stood in stunned silence with her eyes bugging out looking back at my blank-faced family and confused friends for a good 10 seconds. She wanted to hug my sister, but was frustrated that both my parents on either side of Jina and Nate had not recognized the subtle announcement. Finally, Corinn decided to SUBTLY drop the hint and blurted out “SO JINA, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL US?!”
“I’M PREGNANT!” Said my sister with a huge grin on her face!
(highly detailed view of the ultrasound. Notice how the helmet is starting to form...)
My parents soaked up the message and before I knew it, my mom’s talking about how Jina needs to do x, y and z, while turning to me and focusing on how I need to immediately get life insurance so I can cover the condo, car, loans, etc. I was wide eyed; I turned to Dan, one of my student workers from the EMC who joined us, and told him that I didn’t plan any of this. Meanwhile, our friends and two students from the college were diligently eating the goodies in awkward silence while the talk that dominated the table was all about baby stuff... lot’s and lot’s of focus was towards baby... stuff...
"You mean I won't be the baby of the house anymore?" - Merlin
Wow...
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I’m going to be an uncle?
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How the heck did this happen?
Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know how IT happened (I did take a biology class or two, Googled it and I verified it on Wikipedia), but what I really meant was it feels like this event should be years from now, but not NOW! It kind of feels like one of those “life comes at you fast” commercials of which you see on TV all the time. I feel like I haven’t accomplished enough in life for this to happen… I almost feel like I should have been the one to have the first kid of my siblings (being the older one). But Corinn and I decided to hold off on the baby thing so we can experience life and obtain our graduated degrees (I’m slacking on that objective so far).
I cannot begin to comprehend how I’ll react once I see the newborn. Am I supposed to sense something like a light switch being flicked on that says, “I’m an Uncle!”?
I imagine it’ll be a phenomenal feeling, but the uncle thing won’t hit me until I see proof of concept.
"The baby's going to look like me!!!" - Nate
Until then, Corinn and I are preparing funds for an attack to spoil the kid rotten to get back at Jina for all those years of pain and suffering being her older brother. Corinn will work on training the kid to enjoy Dallas Cowboys Football while I will teach the kid ninja tricks so he/she flips out and kicks Nate for no good reason.
(Congrats Jina, I'm proud of you. Love ya lots...)