We're Expecting!

Merry Christmas! On Christmas Eve, we finally started telling people, starting with our family, that we are having another baby!  It's been so fun sharing with all our friends and family, and seeing the varied reactions.

But I want to share the rest of the story too.  As some of you know, we've been trying for a while. With Theo, we got pregnant right when we wanted to, which made the waiting for this baby more frustrating and disappointing.

And when I say waiting, I mean trying for nine months, maybe longer.  I know it's nothing compared to what some people go through, and now I have a greater empathy for them.

Anyways, about three weeks ago, I started feeling off.  A voice in the back of my mind said, "maybe you're pregnant!" But I would push that thought away as hard as I could.  I'd thought it before in months past, and it made the reality of not being pregnant even more disappointing.  So this time, I wasn't about to fool myself.

Soon, though, the morning sickness kicked in. I'm afraid Theo got to watch a lot of TV while I just laid on the couch, immobilized by feeling yucky. This was a Monday, and Corbin's last day of the semester was Tuesday, so I only had to make it alone for so long.  I was beginning to believe I was really pregnant, but I was still cautious. 

On Wednesday, Corbin came grocery shopping with us, and I threw a pregnancy test in the cart. I wanted to know if I was sick for a fun reason, or if I needed to see a doctor right away.

The plan was to do the test the next morning, but I was so excited (and hadn't been sleeping well anyways) that I woke up at 2:30 AM and knew I wouldn't be able to sleep if I didn't know. So I took the test, came back to bed to wait the two very looong minutes, and went back to check results.

This was the kind that has a minus sign for not pregnant, and a plus sign for pregnant.  The vertical line was very dark, but the other was super light.  Corbin ended up coming in the bathroom to help me interpret the results, before we realized that the dark line is the one that indicated pregnancy anyways.  We felt pretty silly about not getting it.  That's why they don't tell you to take the test in the middle of the night, I guess.

Yay!  A baby on the way!

We decided to wait til Christmas time to tell everyone.  That was a very long two weeks of waiting!  But this is how we told most of our family:

"I am making a gift for you (some people got it right then),  but it won't be done until July or August (most everyone got it here)."

Corbin took the ruse awkwardly long with a few people, causing me to yell into the phone, "We're having a baby!!!"

It was a pretty fun Christmas activity!

I want to give Corbin the biggest shout out imaginable.  The timing on my morning sickness has worked out nicely (maybe God had that in mind when he made us wait). Corbin finished his semester right when I started feeling sick, and won't go back to school until the end of my first trimester. That means he gets to spend his 5 week vacation taking care of an energetic two year old, an invalid wife, and most of the house work.  I feel really lame not being able to help much, but Corbin has done an amazing job taking care of us. He does it without a word, and usually with a smile.  He's a wonderful husband and a wonderful daddy. 

I'm so glad we get to start this journey all over again! Let the adventure begin!