Blushing for BABY!!!!!!

I talked to Ann and Tina and when they asked what we've been up to I told them, "oddly, not too much." I've been strangely tired falling asleep with Shadden and waking with him. That's about 11-12 hours of sleep! Then, it got worse. I started getting queasy. Thankfully, Bobby had four days off in a row to help out with Shadden and let me sleep while I complained of my stomach just not being normal or my energy level. It got so bad, I started taking vitamins, drinking vitawater, and even took a (gasp!) bonine one night afraid I might get vertico again. We were sure I was just dehydrated and needed more iron and was probably feeling a bit anemic and depleted. It stretched for a week and I thought, ya know this is a bit too odd for me. When Ann and Tina asked if I was pregnant I immediately replied, "noooooo." My body still hadn't come back with normal cycles and I have been putting off going to the doctor to examine my uterus.

On a whim of what if....and anything is possible I ran out to the store with Shadden to pick something up just to ease my mind. I didn't want to get my hopes but, you can't exactly not with a test in your hand. My whole body raced as I walked through the store with Shadden on my hip on a mission thinking how strange that I could walk into a store of strangers and purchase something that could change my life forever. And it did.


I took a baby test and told Shadden there was a baby in Mommy's belly! We ran upstairs to tell Daddy as he analyzed the test going back and forth on it's outcome reading fine prints and muttering comments like, "we need a minivan!" "What if I had TWO BOYS!?!?!!" Extreme grin.


Shadden jumped up and down on the bed shouting, "BABY! BABY! BABY! BABY!"


I held the permagrin and Baby shrieks which I let out ALL night long. My adrenaline went sky high. Baby LOVE! Love baby! Ahhh, baby!!!


We prayed for you and linked together all the signs wondering how we missed it. My nausea, fatigue. I ate rocky road ice cream! Bobby couldn't get me to eat ice cream when I was pregnant with Shadden and here I was salivating at the mere sight saying, "no, do not order that!" to my husband and then inhaling every single perfectly delicious bite. Note: I haven't had rocky road since I lived in Hawaii and wore pigtails. Okay, I still wear pigtails. Well, since about the age of seven then before I found out about Moose Tracks. I swear it's better than I had ever remembered.

I love you little miracle baby. Dream and grow. Dream and Grow. We are all anxiously waiting for sweet wonderful you.