Big News

We are expecting a little trouble-maker February 2015. We brought back the ultimate honeymoon souvenir. Things finally clicked that I may be when "aunt flow" didn't show up. I stopped by Walgreen's on my way home one Friday and took the test. Those 2 little lines couldn't have shown up any quicker. I took a picture of the test and tried to figure out my next move. I saw Josh's phone on the charger, I quickly sent him the picture and changed his phone background to that, put it back on the charger, went back out to the living room and waited. A while later he got up to check something and all I hear from the bedroom is "babe.....??? babe....???" I'm sitting on the sofa laughing my butt off.  We had our moment, but I wanted to be absolutely positive so I sent Josh to the store to get one of the digital read ones (aka: idiot proof). That one too came up positive. It looks like there was a baby on board. I was about 4-6 weeks when I took the test, went in for my first appointment at 9 weeks.  We have had our baby girl and boy names picked out FOREVER, they both begin with "L", so baby is being called "Baby L" for now. (IF you are one of the people that know the names we have picked out, PLEASE keep it to yourself and do NOT share.) We are also playing with the idea, of keeping the gender a secret. (Josh and I will know, but no one else)

We told my parents at 12 weeks, while their family friends were down for a quick visit. I wanted to do something fun and unique. The fact that Mother's Day, Father's Day, were gone, and their birthdays and Christmas were too far away, I felt screwed. I did a little research and came up with a few ideas. Here are some of them to help anyone else in the same boat:

1. Order personalized fortune cookies with the message, order Chinese food and swap the cookies
2. Get 2 white mugs, at the inside bottom of them write "grandma" & "grandpa" fill with coffee and wait...
3. Get a white place and write a cute message on it, fill with cookies, muffins, or cupcakes, or bread and serve.

Ideas 2 & 3 include the DIY project of a white porcelain/ceramic dish being drawn on with Sharpie and oven baked to "cure" it. For instructions see this post from a fellow blogger. We opted for idea 3.

This was my plate design, I loaded it up with red velvet cake slices and waited. We all went to dinner that night (which may have been a mistake, because we all ate too much to eat dessert), and when we got back to the house watched some of dad's old dead tree slides. Mom, Josh and I were the only ones to eat cake. Josh had 3 slices, and still barely 1/2 the plate was seen. Mom saw some sort of writing but didn't connect the dots. Josh got a glad container and put the remainder in that to reveal the plate. Mom still didn't get it. "Was this someone else's plate? Why are you using someone else's plate?"

"Why would I be announcing someone else?" was my response.

Then the dots started to connect... "You're pregnant?" 

Dad and his buddy Mac were in the TV room so Josh took the plate in there to show them. Mac got it first. 

Finally the shock wore off, I got a text message from mom the next morning saying "I'm over the shock, when can we go shopping?"