Pictures taken May 23, 2013
Well, I've been sick for a few months now, and basically feel like I have fallen off the face of the earth. I'm going through some old pictures and I thought I'd post them starting with where I left off. We are not secret keepers. We'd rather just share what's going on with us right away and not worry about who knows what. So the day after we discovered that there is a baby on the way, we started sharing our news with family.
We didn't necessarily plan to tell everyone, but we were at my parents house that morning and noticed my mom's picture frame. Long ago she bought a frame that holds ten pictures. She has been filling it with pictures of her grandchildren. She was at nine. I thought it would be fun to leave a little message in the tenth spot.
She came home in the middle of us working on it, and we hurried and set it aside where she would be sure to find it. She did and was thrilled with the news and quick to congratulate us. At that point I figured she could just put the frame out where everyone could see it, and people could just glean the news themselves. But then it seemed strange to everyone that people would just be finding out randomly. She asked if she should call my dad (who was at work) and I said that I would.
"Hi dad! I just wanted to let you know that you are going to be getting a new grandchild!"
"Really!!! That's great!!! So Katy gets the foster child she was waiting to hear about?"
"Uh, I haven't heard about that yet."
"Oh... Wait! You're pregnant!???"
hahaha! It was a fun and clearly unexpected surprise!
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| Congratulations, Grandpa - there's another one on the way. |
Andy's parents were both out of town, in different places. We were able to get a hold of his mom right away. She was sitting in the airport when we reached her. Hopefully she'll remember it as one of the best airport experiences ever. She was thrilled with the news and we each took a turn talking with her. It was a fun phone call.
After that we tried and tried and tried to reach Andy's dad. He was visiting his parents in Virginia and they were out for the day and apparently weren't getting good signals. We finally gave up and went shopping. To celebrate, we were hoping to find some cute Utah baby clothes. (Ultimately we didn't find anything we loved AND we realized that it is hard to clothes shop for a baby when you don't know the gender, so we never bought anything.) We were in the middle of the store when Andy's dad finally returned our call. We rushed out to the front to Andy could talk with him. After talking to his dad, Andy also had the chance to share the news with his Grandparents. His grandpa was excited but immediately knew it was his wife who would be delighted beyond belief. He immediately handed to phone over to her. She was so fun! Andy said he worried that he was giving her a heart attack, she was just so SO excited!
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| What's so important that you are making us talk to you instead of playing at the park? |
Once all the parents had gotten our news, we decided it was time to tell the boys. They had been playing with some cousins that afternoon. There is a park across the street from that house, so we figured we would "borrow" our boys from the cousins for a minute, go tell them in the park, and then let them go back to announce their news.
As it turned out, the cousins weren't able to continue playing anyway, so we ended up picking the boys up and taking them to a different park. We had been anticipating this moment all day. The boys have both expressed strong interests in having more siblings. They have been heart broken the many times they've asked and we've sadly explained that it just didn't seem to be in the cards. We just knew that they would be THRILLED!!!
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| The "BIG" reaction! |
We told them they were getting new sibling and they just sat there in shock. Peter really just didn't understand - after all, we had had many conversations about the fact that my body just doesn't work right and won't make more babies. Ammon became immediately concerned that he would have an additional person that would take away from his time on the wii... WOW. Not the reaction we were expecting at all. (They have since more than made up for their initial weirdness and, as we would have expected, are now thrilled beyond words. It just took some time and strange responses for it to all sink in.)
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| Let's name the baby Slurpee! No, I know, we can name the baby 7-11! |
After the park, they really wanted to get a Slurpee. That generated an entirely interesting brainstorming session of all the "awesome" names we could pick for the baby. We have suggestions such as Warrior, Slurpee, 7-11 and Ranger. Anything they could randomly think of connected to Power Rangers, a random sign they saw or anything else was thrown out as a possibility. After that conversation, I don't know that I would trust these two to name a pet, much less a baby!
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| You're getting a new cousin! |
We had some plans with Isaiah that evening, so we headed to his house to pick him up. We took that opportunity to tell him and his sisters. They were excited, but it was obviously still a pretty abstract concept for them as well.
One person that was especially fun to tell was my brother Joe. Andrew had been waiting to hear about a promotion he had applied for, and Joe was cheering for him like nothing else and asking him every time we saw him what the update was. We decided to have Andrew call Joe, knowing that Joe would assume he was calling with job news.
Joe couldn't answer the phone but immediately sent a text, dying for the news he was assuming Andrew was calling about. Andrew sent a text telling him that I was pregnant. SO not the news Joe was expecting. He sent back some questions, but we were driving and about 2 minutes away from our house, so we didn't respond right away. By the time we got home, Joe was calling Andrew to learn more. And within about 30 seconds of that phone call, my sister-in-law was calling my phone excitedly wanting details of what was going on. She said, "Joe just asked me if I heard Andy's news. When I hadn't, he told me that you are pregnant!!! And I told him, 'that's not Andy's news - that's Jenny's news!!!'" Then she had apparently asked him for details and he knew nothing. Hahaha! It really wasn't his fault that he hadn't found anything out yet since we hadn't responded to his inquiries, but it was just such a typical husband/wife communication frustration that it cracked me up.
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| Making the final phone calls. |
The day continued with various phone calls and text messaging. Isaiah and Peter attended a soccer training class and we made our final phone calls there in the park, eventually getting the news out to all our siblings. It was quite the day!
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