Really and Truly

Yup, I'm pregnant!

WHEW!

I have been holding that in for two months, waiting to make it known until I could tell my extended family and closest friends in person over the Fourth of July weekend.

Can I just say that telling Elizabeth and Christy and Sam went better than I even hoped for? I had so much fun FINALLY telling everyone! I saw Elizabeth (my cousin) at her work for lunch, and she's pregnant too, so once I found out, I had to stop myself from relating to her on nausea and whatnot until I could come home and tell people. It's so crazy that we're five months apart in age, and our babies will be only a month and a half or so apart! Elizabeth was so cute, she squealed and hugged me and squealed some more, and then we compared symptoms, of course. :)

Later that day, Christy and I were at Sam's new house and she had given us a tour, and then I was looking for an opportunity to slip it in. I had a dumb line all ready, because I can't stand being predictable. Then Sam out of nowhere while she's getting us drinks says, "So, which of you is getting pregnant first?" ! I figured it couldn't get any better than that, so I just said, "Oh, that would be me." They looked at me. I smiled expectantly. Jaws dropped. Then the screaming and jumping up and down and laughing and hugging began!

Meanwhile, little 18-month-old (approx.) Gage is looking up at us with his sippy cup in his mouth, looking back and forth at the crazy screaming women, decides we're scary and starts to bawl! Lol! Then Sam claps her hands and says "Yaaaaaay!" to make him feel better, Christy joins in, and he is not appeased and keeps on crying! So cute! I feel bad that we scared him, but it was funny.

So, yes! I am pregnant. I have my second doctor's appointment tomorrow. I'm 12 weeks today, so I'm officially out of my first trimester. Weird. Why do things always seem like they went by fast, just because they're over? During them, they do seem slow. I'm due January 20th, and we think it's a girl. Hopefully it is, because thanks to my parents, we're way ahead on the clothes for a girl. There are a few boy things thrown in too, though. Jason didn't want our possible son to go nakers.

Well, I guess that's all for now. Hey, and now that it's not a secret anymore, I can complain about my fatness and fatigue and all that fun stuff on here! :) JK, I really haven't had that difficult of a time. I have to make like a million trips to the bathroom a day, and I get pretty tired (speaking of which, I need to get the heck to bed...), but it hasn't been bad. I haven't thrown up once, and nausea has only been bad a few times. And we get more and more excited at the thought of having a little baby that will be half Jason, half Kristina. Really, what more could you ask for? Of course it will be difficult, most likely the hardest thing we've ever done, but it will be beautiful.

Words aren't adequate. I'm sure that's obvious. In summary, we're looking forward so very much to having a new Noall with us soon!

P.S. If you vote on my little poll, could you leave a comment or something so I know who voted what? It bugs me to no end not knowing who is voting and what their vote was. (It could be people I've never met who live in Norway saying, "yah, I tink eets a gurl!")