First Ultrasound

The first ultrasound was today and there was just a yolk sack. She put us at 4 weeks 5 days which is much earlier than we expected and MUCH earlier than the doctor estimated. Our new due date is February 26, 2009. Since we found out on June 9, that would mean we got a positive pregnancy test at 2 weeks 4 days, so I'm thinking something is a little off or this isn't a viable pregnancy. I've called the doctor, we'll see what he says but I'm a little upset by all this to say the least...

Starting to spread the news

Today we had my father, brother and Shaun's parents over for lunch and to celebrate a belated fathers day. I was nervous for them to open their fathers day gifts telling my dad he's going to be a grandfather and telling Shaun's dad he's going to be a grandfather again.

Here are the presents looking unsuspecting and definitely fathers day like and not "guess what you're going to be a grandfather" like.

Opening the seemingly unexciting gifts

Not getting it just yet

My Dad asking if it's a secret. "It was" was my answer :)

My dad got a shirt that said "rookie grandpa 2009", a book by Bill Crystal about how he felt when his daughter told him he was pregnant and I little onsie that said "Newbie". Shaun's dad got a coffee mug that said Classic Grandpa and a onsie that said "Kiss me I'm Irish"

Shaun's mom hasn't got it yet and somehow we didn't get pictures of the full on hug attack I got seconds after this.

We also got Shaun's mom a mug that says Grandma to bee again

And Justin got a shirt that said "Kiss me I'm an Uncle"

All and all it was a successful day and I was extremely relieved to tell my father. We're going in for the ultrasound tomorrow and I think we're going to start calling people this week....as soon as I can go see my mother to break the news.

1st visit -DONE!

The first visit with my OB/GYN went very well. He did an exam and estimated that we are about 8 weeks pregnant! He also made us an appointment to get an ultrasound done on MONDAY, which I'm super excited about. So our baby is somewhere in between the 5 and 15 week pictures we posted before. He or she is looking like this:

Even though we are telling our parents this weekend, I can't wait to go to the ultrasound, get an even more accurate due date, see what our little baby looks like and maybe get a picture or two :)

Life immitating Sims

I woke up at 2am last night unable to go back to sleep, so I had plenty of time to think of how we got here. I decided in my 2am frazzled state that it all started with my cousin Caroline. Over Memorial Day weekend Shaun and I got to spend a couple of super fun days with some of my family in NY and Caroline decided the Sims character she had created after me was going to have a baby! Not only was Sims Jessica and Sims Shaun pregnant with our first Sims baby, but Sims Gadget was there too, doing lots of watching, playing, eating, sleeping, and pooping (much like real life).

Thank goodness Caroline had a cheat code and sped up the pregnancy for me so we wouldn't have to wait 9 months to see what my Sims baby was going to look like! So in about 3 minutes flat I went from married with a dog to knocked up and giving birth. I imagine Shaun will look this shocked in real life, so we're pretty accurate so far, Ms. Caroline.



She did warn me about the possibility of an alien baby, which makes me a little nervous that I'm going to pop out an alien in 9 months, but I'm 90% confident that it's a human baby in there.
I can't quite remember if the baby was a boy or a girl, but we'll say boy since that's the image I found to post along with this ridiculous blog entry.

And at 2am in the morning, wishing I could go back to sleep, worrying about a little alien Sims baby growing inside me (not really) and thinking about how I could tell Caroline that she started all this (because I know she will be thrilled when she finds out). I decided that Caroline will now be my 24 hour on call babysitter because I convinced myself that she had just as much to do with this little surprise as Shaun and I (again, not really...but it made me smile at 2am).

I love you Caroline, you little clairvoyant thing! And please don't make our Sims have twins or do anything crazy for a little while :-)~

Giddy indeed

Yesterday was my first “expectant” fathers day and there is no doubt that this is the happiest time of my life. Jess has I went to Babies “R” Us over the weekend and we had to balance my registry-scanning kung fu with our stealth “we haven't told anyone yet” maneuvers. This segued to our first (of many) pregnancy “Murphy's Law” experience as Jess ran into a classmate (that works at the store as a pregnant-woman detector) whom congratulated us; we were busted! Fortunately said classmate does not have any family or friend ties so we're clear of that attack vector. Just a few more days until we tell our immediate family... I'm excited beyond belief.

Progressively Getting More Pregnant....

Well, it looks like Monday I was marginally pregnant, but by Friday I was 100% knocked up.

Shaun is the giddiest little thing I've ever seen and I'm dealing with a ton of mixed emotions. We always wanted kids, but I have a million fears and concerns right now, especially since I just got on the right track with school. I'm sure I'll be as giddy as Shaun is once we break the news to everyone. Shaun's parents are going to be super ecstatic, and my parents....I have absolutely no idea how they are going to take the news. Our first Doctor's appointment is this Thursday and we have a billiondy questions for the doctor the first being"how far along are we?" because we don't have a clue.