Grandparents!

We waited to tell friends and family until after the first trimester - which was very hard to do. Especially for Rick. We were like kids waiting for Christmas. So we called our parents and told them first at 11 weeks. This will be the first grandbaby for my parents and the fourth for Rick's parents. Needless to say - they were very excited.
This ultrasound is from our First Trimester Screening, so I guess it's an "official" ultrasound (taken at the hospital as opposed to in the doctor's office). The baby is bigger in the picture and you can see it's profile if you use your imagination. But, most importantly, he looks healthy and strong!!

Growing!

This picture is from our second visit to the doctor. Now at 8 weeks along, the baby looks like a little gingerbread man. Heart still beating everything looks good!

Yup!

So we made a doctor's appointment for a few weeks later and it was confirmed: Six weeks pregnant! Much to our surprise, we got to see the baby and see it's little heart beating! Wow!

We're having a baby!

Decided to start a blog to share this experience with our friends and family in lands far away. So, might as well start from the beginning . . .

It was Valentine's Day and Rick had no idea that we might be having a baby. I went with him to a Comedy Cures event and waited until afterward to tell him. We were stunned. It wasn't the teary excitement you see on Lifetime movies. After several moments of a riveting conversation: "Are you sure?" "Well, no, but I think so . . . maybe". . . we both decided that perhaps home pregnancy tests are very often wrong, so we better just wait to get too excited until we make a doctor's appointment. That way we'd have an official declaration. Never mind that I was three weeks late and had taken two pregnancy tests that turned positive the second a drop of pee fell on them. So, skeptics that we are, we celebrated the rest of Valentines Day in a numbly thrilled haze with sappy smiles on our faces.