These things need bearing in mind when you commit to a child.
Tore the dust jacket on your favorite book? Broke the only heirloom you have from your great-grandparents? Made a stain on the couch? Unpacked your luggage that you just carefully packed? Scribbled on the wall? Rubbed her Cheeze Doodle-stained fingers upon your car's upholstery? ...Yeah, all of those really happened. The the point it,
you learn not allow is to happen again, so
they don't do it again.
Material things take on a whole new meaning; you can't be fussy about everything, just the very important things which you keep absolutely out of a kid's reach. (As for the heirloom, I was moving furniture, and Bailey at least was nice enough to try to hand it back to me, dropping it about three inches from my hands. Lesson learned...punishment withheld due to daddy's stupidity). In the great scale of things, you'd go as far as to take a bullet for your kid, so sweating the small stuff is a waste of energy.
Don't worry about it growing up, being bad and/or not listening. You'll get plenty of that when they turn 2-4 years old. But enjoy the baby part, and you'll enjoy them growing up too...it will seem like a long time during those first 6 months without much quiet, sleep, or a house that doesn't smell like diapers, but those days will eventually pass, and then they literally do something new almost every day, which is really neat.
Doubt my post count on there will ever match mine on GTP 
(Don't worry, it's non-alcoholic)
