WE'RE PREGNANT!!!
Ok, now I know I peed on that thing and it may be a little awkward to have a picture of it in my blog but I don't care because it means I'm going to stinkin' have a baby! We are so excited! Let me tell you how it happened... Wait not that part of it, but how we found out...
So you may or may not know, but for about the last 4 to 5 months, Lee and I have been trying to get pregnant. We had tried for a few months and I was already getting antsy, so in October, I got an ovulation kit so I could make sure I knew when everything was happening, down to the day. So when Thursday came and I was one day late, I started to freak out (in a good way). I wasn't going to get ahead of myself, though, so I resolved to wait a while to take a test.
I made it to the next day.
So on Friday, I took my first pregnancy test. It was a cheapo one I had gotten from the dollar store, so when two faint lines - and I cannot emphasis the word faint enough - appeared, I was still trying not to let myself get too excited. "Woah woah Bethany...this thing cost a dollar. Actually, 99 cents. Are you sure you can really trust it?" No, I wasn't sure. :( And before you judge me, pregnancy tests are expensive ya'll! We had stocked up on a few cheapies so that we wouldn't be throwing money out the window every time we needed to test for a "maybe."
The ovulation kit we had purchased came with a free pregnancy test in it, I guess so you could try their brand and keep all your cash going to them. On Saturday, I used it to do my second pregnancy test. Again, two faint lines appeared. Still, this was in an ovulation kit for pete's sake. These people specialized in ovulation...not telling you whether or not it worked. And the thing reminded me of litmus paper from high school chemistry...flimsy. Could I trust it? Well, I trusted it enough to tell Lee about it all. I told him that I was a few days late and about the two "pregnancy tests." He said, "Really?" but still warned me not to get too excited. When I made a comment later in the day about feeling really tired, wondering if it was due to the fact that I was pregnant, he said, "Well, maybe you are. We don't know for sure." What a rock. Always keeping my toes on the ground. :) I told him I wanted to get some real tests for the next day (I didn't have any more at home), so we went to H.E.B. and got a pack of First Response tests. Finally a brand we had heard of, even if it cost an arm and a leg.
Then on Sunday, that glorious day, I took my third and final pregnancy test... at 4 in the morning. Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Those 3 minutes were groggy torture. When I could finally look, there I saw two solid lines. Relief, joy, anticipation all hit me at once. How was I going to go back to sleep?! How was I going to tell Lee (for real this time)? I snapped the above picture so that he could see what I saw at the moment I found out, went to the desk and wrote "Good morning Daddy!" on an index card, taped it to the mirror in our bathroom, and crawled back into bed.
Somehow, I feel back asleep and was awakened later by the sound of Lee going into the bathroom around 7. This was it! He came back to bed minutes later with naught a word or kiss for me. Hmph. He didn't see the note. We slept for another hour or so, then when we got up I tried coaxing him into the bathroom again for a shower. I jumped in, and he said that he had to go to the bathroom first.
Then he started making his way to the other bathroom. Ughh! If this man wasn't going to see this sign...
I heard him start to leave the room, stop, then the next thing I knew he threw back the curtain and said, "Really?!" this time with excitement in his voice! I nodded, huge smile on my face. He kissed me, and then he kissed me again... And then he really did leave to go to the bathroom. All in all, a good response. :)
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Now, I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm actually writing this on November 24th. We've told a few people, and my students have found out (that's another post), but we've decided not to tell our families about the baby until we see them for Christmas, exactly a month from now. Keeping this from my parents has been one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. There are so many days when I'm feeling exhausted or stressed and I just want to call my mom or dad and say "Yeah, but I have an excuse: I'm pregnant!" but I know I want to see the look on their faces when I say it. So I was in bed tonight, experiencing a bit of insomnia (which I've read can be a pretty common prego symptom), trying to think of how I was going to last another month without bursting, and it hit me... "Write about it! They can catch up later, but at least you're getting it out now." And even at 12:55 a.m. I can tell you that this has been therapeutic. So this is the first of many posts, catching you up on what you've missed so far on this great journey until we meet our little one. I'm setting them all to post on Christmas day, which by now you know. Enjoy!
~Hooks
P.S. On Sunday afternoon I found 2 E.P.T. tests under my bathroom sink. Whoops. Now I have 4 that will probably expire before I need them again. Anyone want to take them off my hands? :)
P.S. On Sunday afternoon I found 2 E.P.T. tests under my bathroom sink. Whoops. Now I have 4 that will probably expire before I need them again. Anyone want to take them off my hands? :)
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