There are odd things you'll watch when you're up soothing a baby. Basically you just turn on the TV and whatever's on, you watch.

For me, this morning, it was the Nicholas Cage stinker Next. At one point, he and Jessica Biel were driving through the rain and one of them said "I like rain."

I was walking the boy around and started singing to him: "I like rain..." And this song (link to MP3 of me singing it acapella - 25 seconds, 200k) developed.

I Like Rain

I like rain
Rain on my face
Rain in my hair
All over the place

Nobody likes a rainy wet butt
So don't rain on my pants.

And if you liked this one, you'll probably like the fart song I made up for my older boy.

Being a new father again, I was talking to someone today about the relative advantages of pacifiers and thumbsucking. She said thumbsucking was a double-edged sword, because while you don't have to get up in the middle of the night to put a baby's thumb back in its mouth, you can't take their thumb away when they're older and it's time for that behavior to stop.

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Finally getting to bring my head up for air for a moment.

My son, a.k.a. "twoboo", was born yesterday, tipping the scales at 9 pounds, 11 ounces...

... ten fingers, ten toes, and one stylin' hair do.

Just posted this over on the Honda CR-V forum over at edmunds.com. Thought I'd post it here too.

Last week, there was a Shelby Cobra, red with white rally stripes, in the parking lot at the supermarket. My 3-and-a-half-year-old was mesmerized. He spotted it the moment we pulled into the lot and said "Daddy, I want the red car." I could only second the emotion.

I'm turning 40 in a few weeks, have another kid due a few weeks after that, and I'm trading in my Elantra GT (which I bought because it looked like a Saab 9³) on a CR-V LX with AWD today.

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