Thinking too much...

To Our future little one,

I am your Papa and cannot wait until you find us. Your daddy and I have waited a long time for you. Right now your crib is filled with stuffed animals that will go on a shelf as soon as you come home to us. We'll rock you in the glider that's in the corner of your nursery and read you bedtime stories from the tons of books we've already bought for you.

I will be your embarassing Papa that always has a video camera handy. We will pull you in a bright red wagon and explore the town. When you're older we're going to take you to Storybook Land, Hershey Park and Disney World. We'll have family campouts in a tent in our backyard and lots of barbecues with friends and family and all the people that love you. We'll go to the zoo and down to the beach to build sandcastles. We'll take long walks in the country and we'll push you on the swings at the park.

I will teach you how to ride a bike and we can tease your daddy because he's not very good at it. You can help Daddy in the kitchen and he can tell stories about how I burn much of what I try to cook, but how he always eats it anyway. Someday we'll take you to the music store and you can try all the instruments and see if there's one you'd like to take lessons for. We'll volunteer and do things to help people who are less fortunate than we are. We'll go to Church and you'll get to go to Sunday School and we'll have your grandparents over for lunch on Sunday afternoons to play go fish and hear stories about how silly your parents were when they were your age.

We'll take the dogs for long walks, as long as you promise not to let go of one of our hands. At halloween you can dress up as anything you'd like and your Grandmom will make your costume every year with love. We'll pick pumpkins and teach you how to carve them and go on haunted hayrides.

Christmas is our favorite time of year and we know it will be yours too. You'll help Papa put up the outside decorations, as there seem to be more and more every year and when we're done decorating the tree in the livingroom, daddy will lift you up over his shoulders to put the Angel on top. And when you walk down the steps on Christmas morning and see all the goodies Santa has left for you and we see that smile and light in your eyes, it will be the best feeling in the world.

Please find us soon,
Love,
Your Daddy and Papa