Prologue

Greetings!

As you might imagine, Bridget and I are creating this blog to keep track of our adventures as parents, primarily. I've offered to be the main author, since Bridget writes creatively as part of her job and I don't want to use up her creative writing mojo here, especially since I (hopefully) will have plenty to spare.

Here's some background. We found out we were pregnant last October. We had decided to stop trying not to get pregnant instead of trying to get pregnant and voila! It was amazing how well that worked! I remember Bridget calling me with the news and being very excited. We shared the news with our families around Thanksgiving. Appropriate, right? Here are some pictures of how we shared the news with my parents.

Planners as we are, we have been busy since then getting ready for the baby (Bridget is due June 4th). We have the room ready, which involved moving our office upstairs, re-wiring it for cable and internet, sheetrocking, and painting. A lot of effort, but it feels good to have most of it done.

We've had three baby showers and there are two more to go. We've received all kinds of great gifts from amazing family, friends, and co-workers. If there is one theme underlying the gifts we've got thus far, it has to be monkeys. We think we may have set a record for number of monkeys in one baby's room (clothes, lamps, nightlights, stuffed monkeys, actual monkeys (?)). I just hope our kid doesn't grow up making wierd noises and throwing feces. If it does, I'll just blame Bridget.

So, now we're prepared for this baby but probably not ready for the lack of sleep, exhaustion, and overturned schedule that he or she will present, according to the many who have gone before us. As my boss put it, "welcome to the world of not sleeping at night."

I'll try to keep this blog up to date as we welcome this new baby into the world!