coming next year: baby ole

we found out i was pregnant at 4w2d, after a great night of gin & tonics with the perrens. :] (thank goodness for good friends and for getting our gin & tonic night in that we missed last summer since manda was pregnant). i had an idea i was pregnant from the night of conception due to symptoms: upset stomach the night of (my mom had this the night of with both of us, as well), cramping the day after even tho i was no where near my period, and a couple of weeks later, sore nipples. turns out i had been super tired for a while too but had attributed it to my crazy schedule (work 9+ hours, drive, softball/volleyball, sleep drive, repeat 4x a week. 430a to anywhere between 8 & 1030p). hard to tell if it's from being pregnant or actually from the schedule. perhaps both?

however, it seemed as tho the day after we found out i started getting some waves of nausea and was noticing my exhaustion even more.

 



we let the news set in, were excited (and nervous) for a week, just the 2 of us. then we told my mom and brother on the first day of the lake (5w1d). i had dreamt up just how i wanted to tell my mom; i didn't want to just come out and say it. so once we got into our cabin, i put a bun (roll) in the oven and waited for the perfect opportunity. it came a little while later when both mom and tyler came into the cabin together (al wasn't there then but he shortly figured it out, as he knew the plan, and came in shortly after). i asked mom what was in the oven. she opened it, said "oh, it's a bun" and closed it as if nothing was strange at all. so i said "there's a bun in the oven?" she replied "yeah." so i said with some emphasis in my voice "there's a bun in the oven?" she again replied "yeah." i looked her right in the eye and said "no, mom, there's a BUN in the oven" to which her jaw opened and she pointed at my belly. then she said "you're not pregnant are you?" i noded and i'm pretty sure she gasped, yelped and then hugged me. we then told the rest of the family at the lake, starting with my cousin maren who is 2 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy.



i was really nervous in telling everyone so early but it would be painfully obvious if i didn't drink at the lake and that's not how i wanted my family to find out, especially my mom. once we returned from the lake, we told al's family too. after that we held off on telling anyone else. it's a strange place to be: being pregnant, not showing, feeling icky sometimes, not being able to drink, but not quite ready to tell anyone why yet.