I attended my grandma's 95th birthday celebration today, and saw all my little nephews and nieces. There's nothing unusual about that except for the fact that for some reason, my niece Faith let me carry her without protest, and my nephew Gabriel let me hold him for quite a while (and several times thereafter) before he got restless. (There was also Morxien, but she's such a sweet baby that it really isn't unusual that she lets me carry her).
I'm not really a kid or baby person. I like VERY FEW kids. I cannot do those baby talk things some women naturally start spouting in the presence of wee ones. I don't think my maternal instinct has ever kicked in that way, and I tend to stay away from them after the initial cooing and requisite exclamations about how cute they are to their beaming parents. As I was telling my aunt the other day, I can only take kids and babies in small doses. This is something dreadful to admit but, I actually prefer taking care of dogs and cats rather than babies.
Anyway, so you can imagine my surprise when I got to cuddle the kids a lot of times today. Even my brother-in-law made a comment: "Atsi, lapitin ka yata ng mga bata ngayon."
Oo nga e. I don't know why though. Just thought I'd share.
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i'm worse than you. i don't even bother paying that much attention to my own nephews and nieces. sometimes i don't even LOOK at them lest their parents beam at me expecting some oohing and aahing.
babies and kids would be the last hurdle of my domestication, i suspect. :D
Oh, but the rest of your domestication is coming along so well, I think this would just naturally happen. *evil grin*
I'm actually kind of apprehensive because you sound like you're going to be a completely different person once you're, ahem, settled down. We'll see though. :-)
i think what's going to happen is really more of fastening down some stuff that i have always left hanging or floating about. toushiro is such a person of routine and i'm the wild card so i guess we'll have to meet each other halfway at some point.
i'm still going to be playing games and watching anime though :) and reading books, and blogging, and facebooking, and having time with my (very select few) friends. :D
Well I guess fascination with children is not for everyone. However, please note that natural instinct ensures that all children are kept safe by their parents. Makes you think twice whenever other people let you interact w/their precious little ones.
Oh, I agree with you. And I suppose I'd feel differently once I do have my own kids, whenever that would be. :-)
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