So apparently James has been browsing around BabyCenter too much again lately and is only able to speak in baby acronym.
TTC
Megs and I had been discussing TTC so that Nathan would hopefully have a baby brother or sister when he was around 2 years old. So began the debate of the perfect birthday. May was no good, because it would be too close to Nathan's birthday, plus there was also Mother's Day. We briefly discussed June, but that would've required TTC just after James' ACL surgery, enough said.
That got us into July and August. I've always had a summer birthday (funny how it's always the same month?) and was always kind of envious of the other kids who got to have a birthday party with all their classmates during the school year. Okay, so it was pretty fun always having a birthday during the summer with the nice weather and all. But summer also meant James would have to share his birthday, hey, September looks nice!
So we set out for September. Needless to say, it was a very Merry Christmas :) I remember Megs disappearing after dinner one night and hearing the distinct sound of a plastic wrapper being opened. Five minutes later Megs came sauntering down the stairs with a little plastic stick in hand and a satisfied grin on her face. It was January 8th.
The Bigger Reveal
Our first reveal party was pretty amazing, so we had to work even harder to make the second one just as spectacular (as I write this, I'm sensing a theme with our second baby)! We finally decided on filling a pinata full of pink or blue colored candy, depending on the gender. But we would need someone to actually fill the pinata. At first we discussed asking our neighbors to do it and then giving the left over blue or pink candy to their children. In the end, we decided that we wanted to find out the gender, by ourselves, alone at home. If this was to be our last child, we wanted to have our own special moment.
We opened the envelope together and at this point I was pretty sure it was going to be a girl, although I would have been perfectly happy either way. So I was fairly surprised to see that we were in fact going to have another boy! Watching Megs expression, I could see that, although her heart was filled with joy to be having another baby, she was struggling to hide the disappointment of not having a girl. She had wanted so much to have a baby girl that hearing it was a boy took some time and grieving to adjust to the news. We were soon discussing what a world with two boys would look like, bunk beds, having a playmate, looking up to an older brother and watching out for a younger one, something I never had. Our new reality was hard to imagine, but left us both with smiles of pure joy.
We weren't entirely sure how to go about the whole pinata thing, but thankfully, it included some strings to pull at the bottom, one of which would give way to the lot of candy. Everyone took turns pulling the strings, anticipation growing with each failed tug. Nathan wanted to help whoever was pulling the strings, so it would become a dual effort. We finally agreed that Nathan should just keep pulling until he found the right one. What a fitting way to reveal his baby brother, to be the center of the entire event, even though he didn't fully grasp the gravity of the situation that was about to befall him, literally and figuratively.
With nearly all the strings pulled from the pinata, Nathan finally connected with the right string sending blue candy cascading on top of our smiling and laughing boy with cheers from his family.
Photoshoot
We recently had the chance to meet our new little guy and from the initial images, he's going to be a cutie, just like his brother, not that we're comparing!We are over the moon.
So, here we go again! We can't wait for him to arrive.
-Written by James ;)
Wisdom from Dr. Zimmer, our OB:
"With a girl, you have to worry about a bunch of penises. With a boy, you only have to worry about one."
Acronym decoder:
TTC = Trying to conceive
BFP = Big fat positive (pregnancy test)
POAS = Pee on a stick
EDD = Expected due date
DS = Dear son
