Being an uncle is awesome. I just can't wait till I can influence her in some ways (artistically and musically). Its like having a good amount of the enjoyable perks of having a kid without having to deal with them 24/7
This is her at her third birthday...
I thought I would influence my nephew, but he's 13 and such a dork that I can hardly tell him about cool music

He likes music, but he likes these Christian rock artists. yeah.
We have video games in common though! But he's a Nintendo kid for sure, so all he talks about is Pokemon and Mario. To illustrate how he's a dork--he wouldn't play games over the ESRB rating for his age. If he ever stays at my apartment, I'm gonna bust out some Mortal Kombat. I already knew all the fatalities for MK1 and 2 by his age!
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and then we're gonna drink some whiskey and get some hookers