Losing One’s Cool Before Birth

(I’m eight-months pregnant. My husband has taken to talking to our baby in utero, usually telling her about me or his father or his brothers. One day we are having dinner with his family, and he’s talking to the baby while I check my email before dinner.)

Husband: “…and your uncle [Brother]. He’s not as cool as me or your mom, but he’s okay.”

Brother: *leans over the back of the couch until his nose is almost touching my belly* “Don’t listen to him. I’m cooler than all of them combined.”

Me: “Say what you want. She’ll think you’re both huge dorks at some point in her life no matter what.”