Hi Baby Bean! I am sorry it has taken me so long to write. As daddy has said in his many previous posts, things are CRAZY right now!

I'm just going to start off this post revisiting a few of the "highlights" of the last few months.

I will start from the beginning. I don’t think my side of the “discovery” story is much different from your dads, so I will keep it a little shorter.

I had been feeling a little “off” for a few weeks, but I just blamed the fact that your dad and I had spent the last couple of weeks entertaining out of town guests, one being your aunt Julianne, who was in town from California the other being a good friend from Charlottesville, who was up for March Madness.

When the “offness” didn’t go away however, I started to get a little suspicious - the possibility of pregnancy HAD crossed my mind. It wasn’t until I got sick a few nights in a row that I REALLY started thinking that it might be a possibility. It was a Tuesday afternoon at work when I decided I needed to say something to your dad about what I was thinking. He was completely relaxed about it which I think was his reaction based on the fact that to him the possibility that I was actually pregnant, was impossibly low.

TEST TIME!! I can’t even begin to describe how I felt for those moments leading up to getting the results, as dad mentioned, this wasn’t exactly part of our plan, at least at that very moment. I flipped the test stick over and there they were - 2 solid lines…everything from that point on was in slow motion and I lost all feeling in my body, I looked over at dad in complete shock and from there I fell to the ground in tears.

Two Lines = We're Having a Baby!

I won’t lie to you and say they were all tears of joy, in fact, most of them weren’t. Of course I was happy but in the moment, I think I was more terrified. Terrified about what kind of parent I would be, terrified that we weren’t ready for this and terrified the most about the fact that everything my life had been up until that very moment was GONE! My entire life, OUR entire life had just been flipped on its head and nothing would EVER be the same. HOLY CRAP!

The "Discovery" Night - Here we are after our dinner at Vapiano's the night we found out you were on your way.

But see, all those initial emotions quickly began to fade, and were replaced by feelings of happiness and excitement, we were all smiles. WE ARE GOING TO BE PARENTS - HOLY CRAP AGAIN!!!