Are you a proud parent of an ugly baby? Could you be blinded by love? How would you know, and does it really make a difference? Maybe you’ve got an adorable child, but how do you find out if you’re just blinded by love?

I maintain, that if you have to know the answer to those questions, you’re gonna need a little outside help. Proud grandma and grandpa are just not going to be your best resources on the matter, and neither will your close friends.

You can imagine my great relief when my first child was born, and he was just adorable. He had those perfectly symmetrical features, light brown complection, cute little nose, and big brown eyes. The only problem here was his smile.

Whenever Ethan rewarded us with a smile he looked more like an escapee the state mental institution; his big brown eyes became his huge bugging out brown eyes and his tongue shot out at a 45 degree angle to his mouth and was far too long.

How did I not see this?

Surely we could have benefited from one of the many baby photo contests as well as casting calls that were happening all over the city we lived in; San Francisco. I hear those people can be blunt.

Surly someone would have said, “Whoa there guys, you sure you want to go through with this? I think you must be looking for the voice over people.”

Alas, none of that happened and it was not until my son was four that I found the picture buried in a photo box, and cringed inside. I turned to my wife to ask who the baby was in the picture but thought better of it.

He is definatley cute today, so no harm no foul, as they say…In case you are wondering, we the proud parents of a gorgeous 8 yr old, still have yet to get ourselves over to the next photo contest or casting call; just in case we are still blinded by love.