It was an interesting week with only Eric and I knowing the secret. We decided that we were not going to say anything to anyone yet because we weren’t going to the OBGYN until that Friday (8/14/09). The appointment went well but we were in there for close to 3 hours. We got to ask a lot of questions and I had a lot of blood taken. The best part was hearing the baby’s heartbeat. When the doctor first put the monitor on we could barely hear it and Eric got up out of his chair across the room to get closer to my belly. That was the best sound in the world! The doctor was even able to feel and could tell which of my ovaries had released the “amazing egg!” I even got a great Week-By-Week book to read from the doctor. When we left the office we went back home to prepare for the kids to spend the night. Jordon, Maison, Lauren, and Chase were all coming to spend the night with us that night and we were going to tell them the news. We decided that it would be cool if we told the kids in the family before we told the adults. We figured that this generation of kids would be the ones that our children would grow up with so why not tell them first. I went and picked the kids up and we took them to dinner. During dinner Eric told them that we had a surprise to tell them. Jordon and Maison figured it out right away and Jordon said, “I know, I know you’re having a baby.” We told them the news and about how they were the first ones to know. Lauren and Chase sat there for a while not saying too much but were happy. We explained to them that we would be going out of town on Monday and we didn’t want them to say anything to anybody until we left. They promised to keep the secret and thought it was really cool. When we got back home we made banners for the baby and the kids guessed who thought we would have a boy and who thought we would have a girl. Chase was so funny one time as we were laying on the floor making the banner. He came over to me, opened my mouth and said, “Yep Geque (that’s my nickname) I think I can see that baby in there.” We all laughed when he said that. We played games and one of the games, Mancala, had little tiny pegs. Chase kept asking me how big the baby was and I kept trying to tell him that it was very small. I finally told him that it was about the size of the peg that we were playing with so I had all of the kids grab a peg and take a picture to represent the size of the baby at the time. They also helped me brainstorm names for the baby. We had a great time that night.
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