What have we gotten ourselves into?

This is a blog about our unborn daughter. Someday soon, it will be filled with stories about what makes our little girl special. Maybe she'll have really cool eyes, which come from both her mom and her dad. Maybe she'll be tall, gangly, and awkward like her dad. Or maybe she'll have beautiful blonde hair, like her mom.

But since she's unborn, for now, it's about the two of us. It's about the experiences we have leading up to her birth.

At some point in the future, we'll become experts on all things baby. But as we stood in the enormous labyrinth that is Babies R Us yesterday, I realized that day was a long way off.

There were dozens of strollers and dozens of cribs. Okay, that was expected. I know what those things are for and expected them to be there. But then there were also dozens of other things--things I didn't know existed. Bouncy things for the baby to sit in. Swinging things for the baby to swing in. Pads for the baby to lie down on. Pads for the baby to do something called "tummy time". Pads for the baby to look up and learn all kinds of things.

How much of this stuff do we really need? No idea. Maybe our girl will tell us what she needs.

My guess is that our experience in Baby's R Us was only a sign of things to come. We have pretty much no idea what we're doing. What have we gotten ourselves into? This is going to be an adventure!