Hiccup's Birthday Wish

Journal entry from July 17, 2013

I’ve been feeling pretty crummy the last few days; headaches, backaches, crampy, dizzy, really bad breakouts, and super short-tempered. I was supposed to start yesterday so I thought that probably had something to do with it; although in the back of my mind I was also considering the exact opposite.

Being a day late, and impatient as ever, I took a test before I got in the shower...and it came up with an error message! What the heck? It totally drove me nuts. I was having an off morning anyway and I was super emotional so this didn't help. After I dropped off Hiccup at the sitter's I headed to Target so I could buy me something for lunch and another pack of tests. I thought I'd be patient enough to wait till I got home to take one but of course I wasn't. I headed downstairs with my shopping bag as discretely as I could. The directions said the result would take 2 minutes to show but I saw the plus sign almost immediately. I got a little teary eyed; I felt overwhelmed, relieved, and excited. 

I waited till we were all home to break the news. I headed downstairs to get ready to watch a show and Casey put Hiccup to bed. While he was up there I sent him this message on his phone. 

He saw that he had a text when he got downstairs and just stared at his phone. He kept looking back and forth to me and the message. I told him that I wasn't kidding, and if he didn't have anything to say right away just to give me a kiss and let it all sink in. 

Getting pregnant with Hiccup took 20 months and this time it took only two. We were both really surprised that it happened so quickly. My babies will be 20 months apart which is a little closer than I planned on but I think will work out just perfectly when the little baby arrives. 

At Hiccup's birthday party, when it was time to blow out his candle, I jokingly helped him wish for a little brother. It's funny that less than a week later I found out that I was pregnant. 

This will be a big change for our family but it will be such a blessing. We go in for our ultrasound appointment on the 15 of August; what a good anniversary present.