I have been wanting to post about our little nugget for ages, but couldn't get around to it for the following reasons:
- This kid wears me out! I seriously come home from work and lay in bed until I have to get up the next morning.
- I am still working 50ish hours a week and the thought of coming home and being on my computer again makes me shudder.
- I was afraid I would jinx it if I announced it too soon, that somehow blogging about it would make me not pregnant anymore.
#3 was the main thing holding me back. Who knew starting this phase of our life would be the most terrifying/exciting/exhausting thing EVER. Oy, it has been an interesting roller coaster to say the least. I guess I should start from the beginning. Be warned that this is not going to be all gum drops and roses. I want to document things the way that they really are so I can either hold it over the kids head later in life or just take credit for how awesome he turns out.
I know my cycle like clock work. If I don't get a certain present by 11 o'clock am on a certain Friday, something is wrong. 12 o'clock rolled on, so I automatically texted Michael telling him I thought we were preggers. All day I would go to the bathroom expecting to be proven wrong, but it didn't happen. I had to work late, due to super considerate clients who obviously don't have a life outside of work, and for some reason I didn't have a car, so I walked to the Lambson's house all by myself. It was interesting to have that 45 minute time to just think about what could be happening inside my body at that very moment. I remember thinking about how beautiful the day was and how amazing our Heavenly Father is. I finally got to the Lambson's where Michael was watching Mama Christy. We discussed the possibility of what was happening and decided we would take a pregnancy test if needed in a few days.
Needless to say, we grabbed one on the way home at one o'clock in the morning and took it right away.
It was positive. I shrugged my shoulder and told Michael that we were pregnant. He said we would take another test in the morning to see if we were REALLY pregnant.
A whole 6 hours later, the new test was again positive. Michael's first question was if he could tell his mom who was heading over that moment. I can't remember why she was coming over so early on a Saturday, but it was Conference weekend. We both went down and met her in her car and told her our news, and reminded her multiple times how early it was. She cried and told us that she had had a dream about a baby the night before (dreams are a big deal in the Vineyard Casa) who she thought was Jonathan and Nicki's baby, but it had to have been ours. It was a sweet moment.
We then got ready for the day and headed over to Mom and Jerry's for the morning session of conference. Carlie met us at our house before to drive up with us, and I showed her my pee sticks, which she thought was disgusting and did not believe. She also teased me for not being able to keep anything to myself. At Mooder's, we had yummy old school breakfast of cheese eggs with onions, OJ, and toast. As soon as we walked in I told Mooder as she cooked breakfast. She cried and gave me a hug and then told Jerry. When she blessed the food, she also thanked Heavenly Father for the potential of another grandchild. The more we told people, the less real it seemed. It seemed as if I was just having a Catie moment, getting too excited over something and sharing it with the world, only to have it disappear before it happened. We called Padre and shared the news with him as well.
Later that day we went to Callie's where most of the siblings were and blabbed it right after we went through the door. There was much jumping and screaming from the women folk, which caused the men folk to wonder what was going on. Another pregnancy test followed because Callie has fool proof tests. It again was positive. We did the ring test and it said our baby was a boy. Sunday we had a google hangout with the Vineyards who lived out of the state and told them our news. Remember, we are about 3 weeks along at this point, probably not the best time to tell those you love who have a billion questions.
The funny thing is whenever something big happens in our life, we usually do a mini announcement. Before we got engaged, we told everyone for months and months that we were going to get engaged. It was the same thing with the baby, we told everyone we might be pregnant. We like to ease people, and mostly ourselves, into things I guess.
Oh man, this is already like a novel and it is only about the first 24 hours. I might be posting more later, just to ease you into it....
