I've been wanting to write more on this blog about our upcoming little man and it's about time! Well, here it goes... We found out on april 7 that we were pregnant. :) I just didn't understand how I could gain up to 8 pounds gradually within a week while I was exercising and eating healthy. Yes, I'm obsessed with weighing myself. No, I don't have an anxiety attack if I don't. Andy had his theory of why I was gaining so much weight -- GETTING OLD. He doesn't have much to say about old since he's turning 30 this year and I'm just leaving my early twenties....
Anyways, I decided that I needed a pregnancy test and a redbox movie that night. Since close friends said that I would be the 1 in 4 women to misread a pregnancy test, I should get the one that had the results in words -- PREGNANT or NOT PREGNANT. As funny as that was, we took their advice and got one, haha. I was in shock when the word came up. Andy was outside the bathroom door. We couldn't believe it, but we were excited and scared at the same time. US parents???? Please Lord, help this child, haha. We decided that day we were gonna be the parents that take pictures of everything, so we started with the test. :) Later on different nights, we went to dinner with Andy's parents and my dad and stepmom. We gave them a small box with a binky in it. That's how we told them we were expecting a baby. :) It was fun to watch their reactions, haha. Since my mom and step dad live in wisconsin, I talked to my mom on the phone. :)
I had no idea how far long I was because my monthly "visits" are unpredictable, so it could have been since january or march. When we went to the dr's, they scheduled an ultrasound to figure this mystery out. The ultrasound told us that our little baby was only 7 weeks. I was stunned because I felt my belly was huge! Yes, I'm understanding how ignorant I was, haha. It was kinda a downer because we were hoping to have our baby sooner. But we are just thankful for God's gift to us. I think this picture is so cute because he's like a little rock climber. :)
Between at that time and 17 weeks, I was just anticipating what we were having because I wanted to give our little one a name. I hated calling the baby "it", "baby pfleg", "him/her", etc.... I wanted to feel close to our baby since I couldn't feel anything yet. I felt bad that I didn't feel close, but then felt better when I found out that it's normal for some women. I wasn't depressed or anything; I just didn't feel pregnant because I never had morning sickness or crazy cravings. I just gradually gained weight and couldn't fit in my clothes anymore. On my birthday tho (July 11), our baby gave me the greatest gift -- KICKED ME! My sister was sitting next to me and witnessed it too, so I know I wasn't crazy. :) It was wonderful. Since that day, our baby hasn't stopped moving or poking.
THEN, it was ultrasound time! July 19th -- We were ecstatic to find out! We both had the day off to celebrate all day. Andy guessed boy and I guess girl, but we were both really thinking that we were gonna have a girl since everyone we know is pretty much having a boy or had a boy. We thought we would be the ones to break the cycle. It was just me and Andy in there, plus several workers. It was like a party cause we were all laughing at our baby. He was doing crazy stunts and it was hard for them to get pictures. He was standing on his head, doing back flips, poking at the ultrasound wand, constantly moving... On top of having to get up several times to go to the bathroom cause my bladder was too full. They ended up telling me to just empty my bladder. At last, they were trying to figure out the sex, but his legs were crossed. Then he did a flip and it was right there! The lady said -- "There's the three lines." I don't think I've ever been so proud, excited, or smiled that big in my life. He was beautiful. His beating heart, his feet, his spine, his organs, his arms... He was just amazing. We immediately knew his name -- Ezra Josef. I loved that I could call him by his name now!
This is how we told our family about Ezra. We hadn't told them he was a boy yet, so we got a cake that was blue in the inside. We had them cut the cake to find out! It was really good.
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| Pic: (left-right) Laura, Elaine, LuEllen, Sue, Dave, Joe, Dale |
Ezra is constantly doing flips and poking around. We love just watching him make big kicks. We still have hope that 2 wrongs make a right. Andy and I were both crazy kids, so we hope that maybe he's getting it all out of his system now, haha. If not, we will definitely still love him!
