Nature vs Nurture

So we're getting down to crunch time. We're down to only 9 days until the due date, so I realistically could be a dad at any moment. Lately I've been thinking about the various personality traits that Hayley and I have and which will be picked up by the baby. I'm not sure exactly how much is nature vs nurture, but I'm not sure that's really going to matter much. Whether or not you pick up traits from your parents because of your genes or because they raised you, you still pick them up. And at the end of the day that's all that matters. I figure the one thing we can count on is the kid being anal and borderline OCD. That's the one thing we both share. It's not bad for either of us, but it pops up. Most of mine show up as the various "superstitions" I have about sports. For hockey, I get dressed in the same order every time. I hang up my stuff to dry a specific way. Baseball had similar OCD things. Hayley likes to clean up the table at restaurants when we're done eating. Stacks up the plates and silverware and napkins. I typically then un-stack everything just to provoke her. Re-spread the used napkins and straw wrappers across the table. Good times. I think the first that will start to come out will be how the kid reacts to situations that require help. When Hayley is working on something and needs help, she usually just wants the solution. She's not interested in getting some help getting back on track to figuring out the solution; she just wants the answer. I on the other hand like to go through the process so that I know what I did wrong and what I was missing. Naturally I also assume everyone else does. That is what usually leads to trouble in our house now and what might lead to new trouble very soon. My niece Evie shows a 3rd option; never wanting any help. If you try to help her with a puzzle she can get pretty upset at you. I'm hoping our kid picks option 1 or 2 so we don't have all 3 of us butting heads at times. One of the other ones that will probably come out early will be reaction to pain/injury. Hayley tends to be more normal. When she hurts herself you know it. She makes an audible noise, tends to avoid covering it up if something is bothering her, etc. I on the other hand will do whatever I can to hide it. I can drop a pot on my foot and would make barely a sound. It's not that it doesn't hurt; I just don't want anyone to know that I just got hurt and so I silently swear and writhe in pain. And playing sports only reinforces that. If someone drills you in the leg with a slap-shot you don't want to give them the satisfaction of knowing it hurt. Same thing if you get plunked in the ribs with a pitch. You bite your tongue and play even harder to act like it didn't affect you. And If you are hurt, you do whatever you can to not come out of the game. This one might take a couple years at least to show up. Obviously we're not going to be helicopter parents that run over and dote over our kid every time they get a bump or a scratch. But until they are old enough to decide for themselves how they want to handle it, we won't know the path they take. Obviously there are dozens, maybe even hundreds of behaviors and personality traits that will be decided. And I'm sure we'll discover new ones every month. Every time the baby does something...unfortunate we'll be arguing and who they got that habit from. And then fighting to claim all of the good things. And what I'm really hoping for right now is that the baby inherits my propensity for sleeping soundly and eating heartily. If I get nothing else on what will very likely not be my first father's day, I'd be a happy man.