The Others

OK, let me first start off by telling you all that I had a lovely monthly appointment this morning.  Cup peed in, BP at around 104/60, baby measuring fine, heart beat great, and I gained about 4 pounds.  Wait--what?  That is the most I've EVER gained in the first trimester--usually I LOSE weight.  I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that.  Hmmm....

Next appointment in a month.  Ultrasound on October 24--yay!

Can I just take a moment here to tell you how anxious I was about this appointment?  I guess that I still can't believe my "luck" and keep thinking that it's still too easy and surely SOMETHING will go wrong one of these appointments.  I don't recall being this anxious for any of the other pregnacies--maybe the first, I dunno.  Anyway, I just about cried at the end when I got into my car.  Big sigh of relief!  13 weeks and one more monthly appointment down!

So!  I know you're all dying to hear how the kids took to the Big News.  Well!  First off my whole plan of attempting a sit-down discussion over dinner or maybe in the car didn't happen.  The kids apparently had other plans!

Saturday morning a friend of M's called and invited us all to the local amusement park--they had free passes!  So, as the kids and I are hurridly getting dressed, M was making some comment to me about me and rides (perhaps teasing me about my embarrassing puke incident after riding a spinning ride several years ago), and I said something about how I wasn't going to ride today.  M looked DIRECTLY at my belly and said, "Oh.  Right." 

Ah HA!!!  I KNEW she knew!

Not two minutes later, M approaches me in the living room and says, "Mom, can I ask you a question?"  "Yessssss...?"  "Are you pregnant?"  *sigh*  "Yesssss...."  "Ha!  I KNEW it!"

Then she proceeds to tell me how she figured it out from all the doctor's visits plus apparently little tidbits that K was overhearing while I was on the phone locked up in my bedroom--from where he can apparently hear me better than I thought when he's in his room next door playing with his legos.  The two of them put their heads together one day and exchanged ideas/clues and even told little I.  M proceeds to tell me that K is "mad" at me, and that she's a little upset too--especially because she is afraid that once the baby comes, I'll no longer be able to spend any time with her, K, and I.  I reassured her as best as I could, but I'm not sure how well since I was still reeling from the "K is mad at you" comment.  But M did say that she would help me out (I'm not sure what all that entails since she basically has expressed several times over the summer--while apparently knowing about a future baby brother/sister--that she does NOT really like babies and does NOT want to babysit them.  Hmmm....)

After we got back from the amusement park, I made it a point to talk to I and K to get a better grasp on their feelings.  Happy-go-lucky I is all excited and has already offered name options:  Eric if it's a boy; Emily if it's a girl.  K vehemently denies ever saying he was "mad" at me (perhaps that's just M's way of expressing their worry about future abandonment?).  K goes on to tell me that one of their biggest worries was that *I* was keeping this secret not only from them, but from DH!!!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!  *wipes tear*

It's nice to be all open and non-secretive now.  My neighbor lent me her baby name book (along with a whole maternity wardrobe, thankyouthankyouthankyou!), and they were all three poring through it like crazy last night suggesting (or laughing at) the names.  I'm not sure what we're all five going to come up with for this new baby, but the process is sure going to be interesting!

And...of course I finally posted the news on FB and being am amused by the comments coming in.  Friend reminding me of my "crazy busy" life and that "something's gotta give"?  Um...thanks????  Anyway, DH's family now knows, so that's good....

Looking forward to getting fatter and perhaps sleeping more now that I'm in the 2nd trimester!