Woah, baby!

Potato chips, lots of fruit, toilet bowl hugging and 8pm bed times- sounds like someone around here is cooking up a baby!

Thor and I are so surprised, scared, EXCITED to be starting the journey to our new, bigger family! I wanted to start a blog to document the pregnancy, and if there is time, the early years and milestones of our new family member for a few reasons.

1) I think it will make a fun journal for them to look back on one day. They can read stories about antics I was up to while carrying them and the thoughts and emotions that their Dad and I had while bringing them into the world.

2) With family and friends so spread out, I love the idea of being able to share more information, stories and pictures than random texting or phone calls might allow for.

3) I feel to a certain degree, blogging is a lot more safe and secure of a platform to share special family stories than putting the information on other social media sites- such as Facebook. Never mind that I'm sure the majority of people on Facebook have no interest in daily family updates and pictures!

January 31st, 2016 was the day I found out that we were expecting our first baby. I had been feeling very tired for the past week or two, even leaving the gym in the middle of the day to go take a nap. Those first emotions when a very faint 2nd pink line appeared on the test were over-whelming. The first thing I did, was write down some thoughts that I will share here:


"It seems a bit odd to write right now, but I think its important to get some of the mix of emotions down. For the past week I worried that I might be a crazy person. It is a relief and exciting and terrifying to find out that I am not...

 When I first saw the hint of that second line I still thought I was crazy and just seeing something that wasn't there... But then I took it over to the window- the second line was there- faint but there- it was even captured on camera.

 

 

 

I looked up a due date based on conception already- October 8th. If you would have asked me yesterday I would have said that October was a LONG ways in the future.... now it feels like there is so much to do before then.

Id like to find a fun way to tell Thor- but I am thinking he just needs to know. I might try and cook us dinner tonight... 

My mind and emotions are racing... I think I need to just lay down and enjoy having the knowledge and these few moments of my secret between the baby and I."

 

If those are not the incoherent ramblings of an overly emotional women, I don't know what is!

 

Thor did not want dinner when he got home that night and so I asked him to just sit with me while I ate. After dinner, I placed a little chia seed on his finger and told him, "This is the size of our baby right now."  Thor was very surprised, and quiet honestly, in a state of disbelief. I tried to give him a little space to absorb the news and by the next morning, he was rubbing my belly at one of our favourite smoothie bars in Spokane!