One part of finding out I'm pregnant is the super fun part about telling people! I looove that part and secretly get sad when it's over.
Telling Daddy!
I took a test earlier than I knew I should that had a reeeeally faint line but looked mostly negative (but again, it was really early.) I didn't trust it, but even then didn't tell anyone "just in case". (I typically tell my sister everything.) Waiting another week to retest was brutal, but when I was now a day late, I had a gut feeling. I took another test on July 1st and when it was positive, I figured it'd be fun (but difficult) to wait and tell Tom on his birthday two days later. I almost slipped up several times....while sitting at the computer and just almost blurted out, "can you BELIEVE we're having another baby?!" but thankfully I only slipped in my head.
I didn't have any grand ideas to tell him, but figured I'd make it a part of his birthday present somehow. One of my best friends Amanda (I had to tell SOMEONE) helped me think the entire process through and suggested I put it on the bottom of his last present. So that I did. My heart was racing as he opened his new work shirts...
(I yet again had the due date wrong (did the same thing with Conrad) so we're actually due March 8th, not the 11th. Or the 7th. Ha.)
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Telling John and Trisha!
Next up was John and Trisha! We regularly meet up for walks so decided (as we were walking to the park a week later to meet them) that we'd put the test in the back of our stroller and ask Trisha to grab something from the back of it where she'd see the test.
It didn't go exactly according to plan, but still worked out. It was actually quite hilarious. We figured she'd stay over on the concrete with Tenley in the stoller (like she normally does), but this time - of all times - she decides to wheel the stroller over the wood chips to come over by the swings. We weren't expecting this but had no time to come up with a plan B. Tom was nervous as heck and not talking (notice how he doesn't say a single word to help me out). Our plan was to pretend to be videotaping the kids swinging (b/c why not?) and then for me to act like my phone was dying and ask Trisha to grab Tom's phone for me instead. Well as it turned out, she was standing exactly two feet from both me AND Tom now at this point and since I can't think when I'm nervous, I just stuck with the original plan and still asked her to go get the phone even though Tom was just as close as she was basically. Ohhh this makes me giggle just reliving it.
She doesn't particularly want to go get the phone and even says "I have 70% on my phone" but graciously does it anyway. She later tells us how odd she thought it was that Tom wasn't going to get his own phone. Dying. It was a complicated but hilarious way to tell them the big baby news! And who doesn't absolutely LOVE a reason to video tape Trisha being surprised?! She has the best reactions and doesn't hold anything back. Love it so much.
We were able to tell Mimi and Papa the following weekend and then my entire family the weekend after that! So fun to be able to tell people face to face when possible.
Praising God for the joy this sweet baby has already brought us in so many ways already!
