going to have to change my blog name...

CAUSE WE’RE HAVING A BABY!

We are so very excited! I plan to keep up with my adventures in pregnancy here. Take it or leave it, like it or not, I want to document this joyous process for myself. If you enjoy reading about it, then that will just be a bonus! Hopefully I will keep up better than I have been lately!

Here’s how it’s gone so far…

January 27, 2010
I decided to take a pregnancy test because I was anywhere from 2-9 days late. Why the range? Well, my cycle has been between 28-35 days. Those first few months of trying I would take a test on day 28 if I hadn’t started yet. After repeated negative tests for a few months, I decided I needed to stop doing that! Not to mention that my husband put the crack down on that and told me to stop stressing over it. Hmmph!
So, back to January 27…I decided maybe I should take a test. Now, we’d been trying since the end of June, so I my expectations were very low for this test coming back positive. But, that test turned positive so fast!! I wasn’t even done peeing before it showed up with 2 dark lines!

WHAT? No way!! Oh.my.gosh!!

Courtney was taking a nap. Now, I’ve always thought of the fun, far-out ways I would tell him we were expecting. My friend KB said this is the female version of the proposal. They get to announce marriage, we get to announce baby. So, obviously, I had to figure something out! I didn’t have any baby items purchased or anything spectacular, so I used our doggies in my announcement. That just makes sense as they are our first “babies.” When Courtney woke up (yes, I waited until he woke up—I have the patience of Job, let me tell you!), I brought the dogs in to him. Here’s how it went.

Me: The dogs have a question for you.

Him: No, I don’t want to take a walk.

Me: No! Not that. They want to know if you will still love them now that you will be a daddy to a real boy or girl.

He looked up at me so fast, with a look of complete shock and surprise on his face. Man, I wish I had my camera ready to capture that face. Priceless! It was great! But a camera would have been way too obvious…

Him: Are you serious??

So, I showed him this:

Then we spent some time being all happy together and yay, yay, yay! Then he asked if maybe I should take another brand of test to be sure. So, off to the store we went to get more tests! I know, ridiculous! But we couldn’t help ourselves. Two tests later (so 3 total) and I was STILL PREGNANT! Praise God!

January 28, 2010
I woke up and took another test! Just for good measure. You guessed it! STILL PREGNANT!! hehehe

As everyone says to me, “yeah, that’s kinda the way it works.”

That puts our due date at September 28. A fall baby. Ah, I love fall! Now I have just another reason!

:)

Keep checking back for my pregnancy updates. Thanks for taking this journey with me.