The next day

Wow… What an amazing group of people I know.

So, last night, I announced on the Twitter that Kelci is expecting. Silly me, I did it in the middle of cooking Christmas dinner and I was by no means ready for the response. Within seconds, despite Twitter being a digital wasteland, I had people congratulating Kelci and I. Seriously, just search here. Or here.

I didn’t get a chance to reply to everybody there, but I just want to extend a heart-felt thank you to everybody. While our lives are definitely changing, the lives of those around us will be changing as well.

For example, my mom will be visiting Washington for the first time in nearly six years, making what I think is her third trip since my dad died nearly 25 years ago… All of my friends don’t know it yet, but they’re about to become a pretty important support network. And my life will be different too. And I couldn’t be happier.

I love you bear!

I woke up one Sunday morning about 2 weeks ago and I just knew. I’ve heard about women who knew they were pregnant before peeing on a stick, but  I never believed it until now. As soon as we got up that morning, I sent Eric to the store for the pee stick. Unfortunately, Safeway keeps them behind the pharmacy counter, next to the Sudafed, and the pharmacy was still closed. I was half-expecting them to request a copy of his driver’s license :)

We went Christmas shopping that day and planned to pick up a pee-stick along the way somewhere. We ended up at Costco, so I thought I’d pick up a 24-case of home pregnancy tests. Luckily, they actually had 4-packs. Thankfully, I only needed one!! When we got home, I had to pee so bad I was doing a pee-pee dance like a four-year-old, waiting for Eric to open the package.

As you can probably guess, we got two lines on the pee stick. So, in disbelief, i drank a bunch of water so i could pee again. The second one was positive too! I almost used the other two pee sticks, just to make sure. After all, we had bought a Costco size package :)

It’s hard to believe we are already six weeks along. Our Baby Berto is about the size of a peanut now, and probably even has  little buds for arms and legs (and a penis, hopefully).

Life’s little changes

Welcome to our little journey.

As you may have guessed, we’re going to have a baby and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Let me be clear:

We’re having a baby!!!

OK, now that that’s out of the way, I am so beyond excited for this. You see, we’re ready.

We’re ready for crying.

We’re ready for puking.

We’re ready for pooping.

We’re ready for smiles.

We’re ready for hugs.

We’re ready for baby smells.

We’re ready.

So, follow us as we chronicle our adventure. We have a lot to learn. We have a lot to cover. So, please, join us. Please use the comments to tell Kelci just how excited you are…

Work in Progress

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