We went to the doctor on Wednesday and got to hear the baby’s heartbeat. It was very cool. For the first minute all you could hear was my heartbeat and during that time about a thousand thoughts were running through my mind, most of them being “what if there really isn’t a baby and I’ve been sick and tired and dizzy for some other wierd medical reason?” It’s not that I doubt the fact that I am pregnant, but it’s very surreal. All I am basing this on is 3 things: 1. I’m sick every morning. 2. The doctor said I was pregnant. and 3. I really want to have a baby. For a few days after we got the news, we didn’t tell anybody (well actually we told two people but that was because we went out to dinner with them the day we found out and they live in Montana so we knew the news wouldn’t get out…) and it felt like this cool little secret. Then we started telling people and since we weren’t very far along yet sometimes it felt really fun to tell people and sometimes we felt like we were making up this elaborate story. But now that I know there is a heartbeat and I’ve heard it loud and clear - and believe me, it was loud and clear - it’s officially official, we are going to have a baby.

After a long strech of non-bloggingness, I’m back. I’d like to say that I was doing something extremely important, like eliminating world debt or finding the cure the cancer, but no, I was just being lazy and not blogging. Although, I do have the excuse of being really tired and not feeling all that great for the last 4 weeks. And I haven’t been blogging because I’ve felt like everything I’ve wanted to blog about hasn’t been quite as big of a deal as the fact that I am going to have a baby. Yup. Gonna have a baby in January. Pretty exciting isn’t it? I think it is. At least the baby part is. The morning sickness and tiredness and general yuck feeling are not all that exciting, but I just keep telling myself, “it’s for the greater good.” I’m almost done with my 1st trimester (only 2 weeks left) and according to all the books after the 1st trimester is over I’ll start to feel better. I really hope those books are right.

And here’s the answers to the questions the I am sure you are dying to ask me:
Yes, Kevin is very excited to be a dad.
Yes, we were trying to have a baby
Yes, we are going to find out if it’s a girl or boy
Yes, we will tell you and your brother and anyone else who will listen if it’s a girl or a boy
and No, we won’t tell you what names we are thinking about until after the baby is born.