Niki and I have always had wildly different approaches to major purchases. Her style is to go with whatever feels right to her, even if she doesn't know much about a particular product, say, a car or a television. My style is to read up on every conceivable pro and con before I can even think of making a decision. Both those approaches got put to an interesting test this afternoon when we went for the first time to register for baby items, a process that requires a bit of "feeling right" and a bit of "reading up." Luckily for us, we had the help of a professional, our friend Katie, who mercifully was able to steer us in the right direction in a stormy sea of products that heretofore were completely unknown to us. Stroller system or Snap N' Go? Swing or bouncer? And, at the risk of getting too graphic, where exactly is the best place to stick a thermometer in a baby? It took a while, but we at least got a decent head start on a number of items. While we didn't exactly complete the list, we were both exhausted by the end, with the process perhaps serving as yet another training session for the exhaustion sure to come.
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