Baby Time...But Not Ours Just Yet!
We've been enjoying our visit with our friends and their baby daughter. While our cat is reserving judgment on her for now, we're already in love with this little girl! At first the cat hid under the bed for awhile, but after we got settled in bed he took his usual perch by my wife's legs. It's good for him as we wonder how he'll manage in 5 months when our baby comes home. However, it's not quite the same thing!
I was expecting to hear the baby during the night, but we must have thick walls because neither of us heard her until she came out this morning. I'm trying to get on a better schedule of sleep since I often need around 9 hours and I'm not likely to get that when the baby comes! I'll have to learn how to take naps as well. It's all part of the adjustment, but I don't really think you can do much to prepare beforehand. You just have to learn how to go with the flow.
The really interesting event should be this evening when we all go shopping and out to eat. When my wife & I were first together the sound of a baby at the next table or the next aisle would drive us nuts, but perhaps that was nature's way of telling us that we weren't ready for a baby. Over time we have begun to adjust to it and are told by parents that you learn to block most of it. We're going to hit Babies "R" Us for some shopping and either Outback Steakhouse or Olive Garden for dinner since our friends don't have any of those places right where they live. Regardless, it'll be an adventure and I'm sure I'll have plenty of stories to tell.
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Catherine looks very huggable. Tell her we saw her grandparents last night at "Fox and Hounds." (Scott can tell you where that is!) We traded tips on how to spoil grandchildren on the one hand, and how to survive children's clothing stores without overly depleting inheritances, on the other.
Scott is hereby given permission to publically mention any mistakes that his (just a bit older than)baby boomer parents may have made. To hear about such mistakes would be helpful as we might not make them as we grandparent our second grandchild. Breanna (and of course Scott and his brother David) will just have to suffer the consequences of such mistakes made to date. Spoiling grandchildren will not, however, be remediated under any circumstances as this is a grandparent's birthright.
P.S. Say Hi to Chuck and Jen for me and for GenX Dad's Mom
P.P.S. The date is wrong on at least the preview of this response. It's posted around 2:10 p.m.
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