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A friend over at Graco recently posted about idiosyncrasies and odd habits from her first pregnancy. Jenny & I are quite eccentric in our own ways so this got me thinking about the things that we do to give our soon-to-be-son a leg up over all of your lesser children :-)

Here's a short list of things that Jenny & I have done... Ok, mostly Jenny. You can chalk these items up to an OCD by one or both of us:

• Watching the Baby Einstein DVDs with the sound cranked really loud -- we're sick of them and our baby hasn't even arrived! And like Kristin, we have started listening to music that will make our child edjumacated -- but spelled the proper way
  
• Daily exercise --  Waking up at 5:15 every morning and walking for 1.5 miles at the local rec center. To be more precise: Jenny does this...In the past 8.5 months I only participated in this one time.
• None of the following items consumed:
• deli meats and seafood (ok, no surprise here)
  
• deli cheeses. It wasn't until Jenny was in her 8th month that I even ate deli
• coffee (Jenny quit cold-turkey)
• chocolate - it has caffeine! And from what I understand, this is harder for a woman to give up than coffee
  
• sodas, including diet --- we're not going to pump our baby full of aspartame or other carcinogens!
  
• candy -- if it's ok with you, we're going to pass on Gestational diabetes!
• Jenny even cut back to three packs of cigarettes a day! (No I'm not serious!)

Unfortunately for him, we are likely to continue our odd behavior once the little one arrives. A future post will include the ridiculous expectations that we will soon place on our child. Do they have BOOK IT! in preschool? A list of required reading is already in the works. No pressure, he has 18 years to get through it, however, it does include every Pulitzer prize winning book ever written.

...17 years, 4 months later ...
Son: "Dad, you're paying for college right?"
David: "Well son, did you get through the list of required reading I gave you when you were born?"
Son: "Pah-sha."  <--- or whatever they say in the future to mean "yeah right!"
David: "Well son, it looks like you'll be learning a touch life lesson..."

PS: We're now accepting baby name submissions. We're having a boy. I like unusual names, Jenny doesn't. So keep your suggestions somewhere in between.