Introducing Soleil the cat

January 24^th 2011 (7 weeks and 3 days)

Hi Little Bean,

I hope you are doing fine. I can start to connect to you more and more. Every time I get sick or nauseous I think about you. By the way, this is happening almost all the time now. That’s good!! It means we’re healthy! I know it’s a weird way to show us how healthy we are becoming but I guess it’s better knowing that way than not knowing at all. 

We were supposed to go out today but we really aren’t feeling that great and if we do go out we have to take the bus and the metro… not the ideal right now. So we’ll stay home, do some study and sleep a lot tonight. When we sleep a lot we tend not to get sick as much the next day, so we’ll probably go to bed very early. I don’t think you mind. 

I wanted to write to you today because I totally forgot to introduce you to someone. I want you to meet Soleil the cat. I’m sure you’ve felt him already. He’s the furry thing that sleeps right next to you at night. Sometimes he even walks on you or on my boobies(it hurts!) he is also a major source of heat at night though… and he’s soooo cuteee (as daddy would say). I’m sure you two will get along very well. He likes children a lot but make sure you pet him softly and that you don’t pull his tail or walk on it. Don’t worry though, mommy and daddy will tell you all of this once you get there. 

I’m also sure you will get to kick him a few times before you are born…he tends to sleep between mommy and daddy at night and you might not always like that. By the way, don’t listen to dad when he says he’s not going to sleep in the same bed as we do when you grow up. He says that because mommy LOVES to take a lot of room in the bed and daddy gets very little of it, but he will still sleep with us and we will keep on stealing his heat. 

Well, that is about it for now. I just wanted to make sure Soleil was introduced to you. He will probably become a good friend of yours. 

Take care Little Bean, we love you very much and keep on making me sick- I love to know you’re healthy.

Lots of sweet kisses,

Mommy and Daddy!