It’s all in the Genes!!! But Whose???

Now that I have another 60 odd days to go, the curiosity is kind of killing. The discussions are often on the lines of whose genes is the baby going to inherit…Will he take after my side of the family or my husbands? And then we end up discussing all the eccentric behavior in the family that we dread!


Will he be a book worm like me who can lick up pages and finish a novel in two days back to back or be a sports enthusiastic person like my husband who is passionate about each and every game and knows the intricacies about all kind of sporting events where I draw a total blank on that front…

Will he inherit the walk of my father which is a peculiar trait in my brother and nephew or my mother’s emotional quotient that has been passed in wholesale to me and my sister? My sister feels that my nephew is a reincarnation of my brother with the same traits and behaviors and reactions. If I have a son will he also be like my brother…I sure do dread that, although my brother, no wonder feels really proud of all the similarities that we keep drawing up!

Will he have my husband’s eyes with dark and deep eyelashes or will he be round egg-faced like me with a parrot nose? Will he have black hair or brown hair? Whose features will he take after?

Will he have a sweet-tooth like me or have an allergy to everything sweet like my husband. My explanation to this is; marrying me has filled my husband’s life with so much sweetness that he fondly calls me “honey”, & now he doesn’t have space for anything else sweeter than me….no one agrees to this, but its just plain pleasing to my ears!

Will he be a genius with numbers like my husband who can calculate the rate of interest on things in seconds, or run to the calculator for the simplest maths numerical like me or will he be a language lover like me who enjoys writing about everything under the sky?

Will he be into romantic mushy movies and love stories or is he going to enjoy more of the gory stuff on TV? I scream and climb over the bed at the sight of a cockroach with tears rolling down my eyes, wonder how will he react to his mother’s antics? Or since its going to have both sets of genes, I hope he enjoys the dumb comedy movies that for a change we both love seeing!!!

Well whoever he takes after, atleast we know that the eccentric behavior runs in the family and now he is part of the same gene pool. We can keep reassuring each other that this unique creation is a result of our combined weird genes!