I wondered when our first one came out and looked pretty damn good from, literally, minute one, just how powerful those my-own-kid-is-cute hormones must be. I m

I wondered when our first one came out and looked pretty damn good from, literally, minute one, just how powerful those my-own-kid-is-cute hormones must be. I mean even cute kids are a bit ugly for the first week or two, right? Certainly the first hour. Figured strangers were just being kind when they said (several times) that we should try to get her in commercials or something ("the pictures", one old guy said, hahaha) when she was still under 90 days old. Then we had two more and no, it wasn't the hormones. They both had the usual newborn uglies and even we could see that. Our first one actually was remarkably cute. No one ever told us we should contact acting agents about either of the later ones. Having more kids makes it easier to tell where your kids truly fall, absent parental bias, on the cuteness or cleverness scale or whatever. Sometimes they actually are unusually cute or unusually smart or unusually well-coordinated, and that's not just parent-insanity talking.