Good News

The next doctors appointment was in October and everything was going great. We were able to hear the babies heartbeat for the first time and that was the coolest thing ever. I remember looking over at Christopher and smiling I asked him if he could hear it? and I don't think he could stop smiling for the rest of that day. In my head I was thinking "Holy Cow, there really is someone inside me." I just could not believe it. It seemed to get more real with every visit not that it was not real before but it was getting more real if you know what I mean.

We had decided that we were not going to tell anyone about the pregnancy until Thanksgiving since by that time I would be 3 months along. I had heard a lot of stories from other women who have had kids that if your going to miscarry it will usually happen before the 3 month mark. So I was going to wait until that time frame was over so there was a less likely chance that we were going to tell everyone and then have to go back and tell everyone that we lost the baby. That would just have been to difficult for me. My mother had 2 miscarriages before she had my older sister so I assumed that it had to be somewhere in my DNA that a miscarriage was a possibility. I was so nervous to tell people about the pregnancy that I thought it best to wait. I did however talk to my older sister Courtney who was living in Washington. (Sorry Mom) She had my nephew Lance just over 2 years ago and I had questions that I knew she could answer. Christopher also talked to his friend Clayton (Sorry again Mom) and had him help give me a blessing for a smooth and healthy pregnancy. It was a wonderful blessing and I will never forget it. I thank Clayton so much for being so willing to help us with it.

We had decided that we just couldn't wait until Thanksgiving to tell people about the pregnancy. My mom had even asked me a couple of times if I was pregnant because every time she saw me I had mentioned that I had been really sick lately. It was really had to lie to my everyone and say no...... and then in the back of my head say yes....

We went over to Christopher's parents house and gave his mom a cute little fabric covered board that was white and hand baby hands and feet all over it in pastel colors. It also had pastel colored ribbons tacked to the board so that you could put pictures under the ribbons. We had cut out a bunch of pictures of babies from a magazine and put them on the board like a collage. Christopher handed it to his mom and said "Here is something for you to put pictures of your grand kidS on." (Since she already had one grandchild he thought she would catch on) It took a few minutes and Christopher saying the statement again before the light turned on. I do not remember if it was his sister Ashlee or his Mom that got it first but it was really awesome when they did. We told them that we were not going to find out if they baby was a boy or a girl in which his mom said it was going to drive her nuts to not know, but she was ok with it. She did tell us that if we had a girl that she was going to go broke because there are so many cute little girl clothes and stuff out there. Well it was now out there and we were on our way over to my parents house to let them in on the surprise.

We got to my parents house and went inside once I managed to get my family (the ones that were there) in the living room I gave my parents a build a bear box. Inside was a sandy brown puppy dressed in a cute little lavender shirt with a dark purple sash and bow around the waist and cute dark purple leggings with lace around the bottom. There were 2 cute lavender bows around the ears. I wondered if my mom would realize it was suppose to be me. (Since my favorite color is purple) Attached to the puppies arm with another lavender bow was a smaller version of the same puppy dog. I had made a recording that they put inside the puppy that said "Were having a Baby" so when I gave it to my mom she was like "What is this for?" and I told her to push the puppies tummy. At first I do not think that she got it because she was like "Wait, What? Hu?" but then it hit her and she was so excited she called my little sister Suzanne who was living in Idaho and ask her if she wanted to be an aunt which was interesting since she already was an aunt to my nephew Lance. She gave me the phone and let me tell my sister the good news. It was all so exciting. It was all out there now well at least out to our families.