planning ahead

I took our other child, Mochi the dog, into the vet today for a check-up and to get some vaccinations.  While I was in I asked our Vet about how best to prepare for bringing a baby home with our dog.  A special thing to note is that we L-O-V-E our crazy little 9 lb yorkie and well, he gets a whole lot of our attention.  When he's met babies, he quite curious and and wants to lick their toes.  2-3 year old kids asking to pet him make him a bit nervous and uncomfortable.  I'm just hoping there won't be any sort of huge issue that pops up.

Anywho, the Vet recommended we might need to bring in Mochi for a teeth cleaning before the baby comes and that I might get the year-long heart worm than the normal 6 month because that would run out right about the time that baby comes.  For the first time I felt like oh, we have 6 months until the little one arrives, so there may be some important things that we'll need to take care of.

Proactive.  Seriously, the first time this idea dawned on me.  I suppose through the haze of nauseousness, feeling weird, most likely acting weird for the past two months, I haven't truly thought ahead.  There are items for the baby that we'll of course need and then there's life after baby that I haven't even thought about.  I think this may be because as much as I imagine what motherhood will be like, I know I don't have the darndest clue - so me, kalin, baby and mochi will all get to learn together.

is it odd that the first pic up on this blog is of our dog?  who cares, I just love him!