A couple of firsts.

Tuesday, October 14th

Today I bought baby's first book. I was at the bookstore looking at pregnancy books, when all of a sudden I realized that I get to buy books for baby! If I ever daydreamed about having a baby, it was almost always about picking out hundreds of wonderful books and reading them with my baby. I did refrain from buying hundreds of baby books, as difficult as that was, and I just picked one. I knew which book I wanted to buy because it’s one of my favorite night time books, and I can’t wait to hold baby in my lap and rock him or her (I'm counting down the days until we get to know if we're having a boy or a girl) and read The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton.

Then I remembered reading that the baby will be able to hear me and even recognize my voice from inside my tummy, and that means that I’ll get to read books to baby very soon! I also bought a pregnancy book, so I went straight home and looked in my book to find out how long it will be before baby can hear my voice. It turns out that I still have to wait a few months, so I’ll just have to try to be patient. Now I have two count downs.

I read some more of my book, and when I got to the part that says my body is going to need lots of extra rest, so I shouldn’t feel guilty if I need to take a nap, I put the book down and fell right to sleep. I'm exhausted lately! The nurse gave me prenatal vitamins and said that after a week or so of taking them my energy level should start to go back up. That's good news, because now that I've given up caffiene I can't rely on a nice cup of coffee to pick me up when I'm dragging.

Which leads me to my next first. When I woke up from my nap, I drank my first cup of decaf coffee. Of course, I'm not counting the time that Sam Druker put decaf coffee beans in the coffee machine without telling me, because then I was clearly drinking decaf against my will.... this was by choice!