I believe my last post was in January about the day we picked up little miss Kenai who is not so little anymore!
Now, I am 24 weeks pregnant with many adventures in between the last 8 months!
Back in mid March, I started to wonder if I was pregnant. I had a dream the month before that was the most realistic, crazy real feeling dream that I have ever had in my life. In my dream, I gave birth to a baby girl. I remember the doctors putting her in my arms, all wrapped up in a blanket with a pink little hat, and I just held her, staring at her with an unbelievable amount of love... I can't even put it into words!
About a month later (mid March) I got a text from one of my best friends Alayna, saying "Are you pregnant yet? I had a dream that you are and I think you are. You should take a test." I literally laughed out loud at her text, rolled my eyes and told her I wasn't pregnant...
We had gone off bc back in December but I really expected it to take longer than 4 months so I did not think I was. Then I started having silly little symptoms that made me think I was becoming one of those crazy ladies they talk about... You know, the ones who want to be pregnant so their bodies start showing small symptoms... Lol. Looking back it all sounds soooo silly, but keep in mind, all these things were so minimal and just little thoughts throughout my days. It really wasn't something that was constantly on my mind.
UNTIL the beginning of April came and I was late.. First it was just a day, then two, then three... by day four I started to think "holy cow. Is this really happening in my life". I told Jesse I would take a test if I still hadn't started after a week. Low and behold, a week passed so I went and bought a test. Jesse had been saying since mid March that I was pregnant so he already suspected.
I heard that it was best to take the test in the morning after you wake up so I waited until Thursday morning. I woke up at 8:30 and took it...
I'll never be able to explain the feelings that rushed over me when I picked up that test and saw the double lines. I am working on a little project that will be completed after baby is born that shows a small clip of this moment ♥
All I wanted to do was tell Jesse but it was only 9am and he was at work till 3pm that day... I was going to ask him if he wanted to go out to lunch as soon as I put together the little box - the way I was telling him.
He just happened to text me at 10am asking if I wanted to pick him up and go out to lunch (which he rarely ever does so I was so surprised). I was so excited; I got everything together as fast as I could! Of course I wasn't totally prepared so I ran to Target to pick up some items!
I pulled into Boeing at 11:30am. Jesse walked out and when he opened the passenger side door this little brown box was sitting on his seat.
His face was priceless. Even though he had suspected this was coming, he really thought we were just going out to lunch. With a dropped jaw & what felt like a whole minute of speechlessness.... He looked at me with tears welled up in his eyes and with a huge smile, said, "i'm gonna be a dad?!" ♥
We went out to lunch and neither of us could stop smiling. We wanted to tell the whole world right then! My parents were coming to visit us that weekend (the next day) so fortunately it worked out perfect! I didn't want tell the parents over the phone but I don't know if I could have kept it from everyone until the next week when we went to Oregon! We told them that night when they arrived and they were equally if not even more excited than we were! If that's even possible... :) We told Jesse's parents the following weekend when we got to Oregon and they were happy beyond words! We're so lucky to have 4 of the best parents a new mom and dad could ever ask for! We told all the siblings next and so on.. This baby is going to have one big bunch of family to love on him or her! ♥
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| The day I found out I had a little baby growing inside me ♥ |
