For the Haters.

It seems that some readers are concerned that I have anger issues, and you say you want me to write about happy things. So in a post of shameless pandering, here are some things, in no particular order, I like about being a dad-to-be:

1. The look of equal parts pity and envy you get from Older Dads whose daughters are mostly grown.

2. Thinking about lazy Sundays working on the hot rod or just laying in the hammock with Number One.

3. Feeling Number One squirm as she tries to find a way out of The Womb.

4. Our Bugaboo Frog.

5. The generally useful and almost always genuine advice you get from other New Parents.

6. Trying to figure out her name.

7. Going through it all with SuperWife - who knows.

8. How if you play with a kid in the neighborhood, everybody says, "Oh, he's going to be such a great dad."

9. Continuing my pre-fatherhood hobby of complaining about miserable junk like Parenting Magazine and "The Expectant Father." What a piece of crap that book is...