Since the doctor’s appointment we’ve slowly been amassing a list of things to do. Thursday night we went out to dinner and stopped at Target to pick up the first few baby books. I’m sure this is standard for most new parents, and the books are surprisingly affordable. So far we’ve just purchased the gold standard (What to Expect When You’re Expecting), a journal by the same authors for Kim to track a variety of things and a companion book called ‘What Expectactions You Should Have Regarding ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’.
We’ve also spent some time thinking about the best way to inform the variety of folks that need to know about this life changing moment. We really want to do this creatively, because a) I enjoy needlessly complicating things and b) I enjoy being an outcast. For the family, we’re making a “Royal Proclamation”, printing it out on tea paper, sealing it with sealing wax, and mailing it in tubes to our parents. For our friends we’re holding a “Halloween” party – how exactly we break it to them we’re unsure. I’ll be sure to record it here.
To mark momentous occasions in my life I have generally fallen back upon the fact <cough> that I am the King of a small Pacific Island nation named after myself, Frantzylvania. I have made “proclamations” before, usually in the guise of Christmas letters, gifts for my groomsmen, etc. It made perfect sense to me to do so in this occasion, and my wife, god bless her, amazingly agreed. She somehow looks past my insanity to stay with me (probably for my money). Now we are having an “heir apparent” (Ah Ha, you say).
