How to do bedtime stories up right

I pride myself on the insane amount of reading Isaac and I do. When he was in utero, I resolved that we would read so much that it would guarantee him a life of voluntary book-devouring, as I once had when I had any free time at all. I even bought a book that had suggestions on how to read aloud to your kids. I try to be crazy-enthusiastic about it, doing the voices and everything. Isaac really digs it.

But really, how can you compete in the least when "Uncle" Gerard comes to visit? Uncle Gerard, who was on Dada's dissertation committee, is in town to give a talk in Dada's department tomorrow and is staying with us so Dada can talk his ear off and Uncle Gerard can play with our babies. Not only is Uncle Gerard an exciting reader, but he has a British accent. Now I know why Patrick Stewart has an endless supply of narration gigs (Dada wants me to point out the success of Ringo Starr as narrator of early Thomas the Tank Engine episodes). Dude, I don't even want to hear myself read after Uncle Gerard's rendition of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear".