Parenting 101

I’m beginning to think this parenting thing is pretty easy. I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. You play with your baby for a couple of hours and then when she starts to get cranky, hand her off to the help. Seriously, we are anxious to be responsible for her for more than just two hours a day. It’ll be easy right? Up ‘til now we haven’t even done as much as a baby sitter would do. We sit with her for a couple of hours each day and play and that is about it. I suppose we should count our blessings, in a couple of weeks she will be all ours and our first experience with her will be that of 24 hours of air travel back to states. How does it work on the plane? Do the flight attendants take her? Do the other passengers help? Maybe the pilot will change her poopy diaper? They’ll have more room in the cock pit, won’t they?

Tomorrow is the celebration of the Muslim new year and so it will be the first day in the last three weeks that we will not see our baby girl. We have some activities planned – site seeing and a parade or something – but right now I am feeling pretty depressed about not seeing Chloe for a day. I guess we will have to pore through the hundreds of photos we’ve taken. Not the same.