We're Having A Baby, My Baby and Me!

status: 3 weeks, 2 days

So.....I finally told him. I couldn't hold it in any longer. Yesterday, I decided to take a digital HPT. I told myself, if it's negative, I will wait and not tell him yet, but if it's positive I can tell him now. It was about 11PM, and low and behold, it was positive! I don't think it really hit me until the word "Pregnant" flashed up on the little screen.

To tell Joel, I took my two distinctly positive tests from yesterday, and put them in a box with the little baby t-shirt Sarah gave us in our hope chest as our wedding gift. I put a big bow on it and brought it out to him, claiming that it was a belated Hannukah gift that I could finally afford to get him. I had to try so hard not to show my excitement and nervousness on my face! Of course, he replied that it wasn't necessary, but thanked me anyway. He went to open the box, but stumbled a little, and I think he glanced at what he thought was a HPT. He paused and then tore open the box. He knew EXACTLY what this meant!

So after rejoicing in our new-found parenthood, we set about deciding what to refer to our new surprise as. I said, "It must be gender neutral, but still fun." I was thinking of Julianne's nickname of "Consuela Bannahammock". We settled on To-be (pronounced Toby, but I will refer to him/her as TB throught blogs). We came up with this because when we were engaged, we used to refer to each other as "Husband To-Be" and "Wife To-Be", so "Baby To-Be" just kind of fit! We look forward to many happy weeks getting to know little TB!