My friend has a 2 month old little girl and her fiance is out of town. So, O and I offered to go visit and help her out a little, since this is the first time that she's been alone for more than a workday w/ the baby. We went over and it was a freaking blast. I know that parenting isn't all fun and games, but it was just so nice to interact with a little baby. She was fussy, she cried, and my friend said, "Oh, I'm sure this will make you not want to have kids," (she doesn't know that we are TTC--no one does, yet; trying to avoid "how's the babymaking going?" and similar questions) and we just laughed and said we were having a ball. It really kicked Baby Need into overdrive. Plus, it was the first time that O and I got to work together on trying to calm and entertain such a young baby. It was a very sweet evening. And then it turned bittersweet b/c it just made me really yearn for a child of our own.
I'm sure you all relate.