Joe and I are going to be parents! What a crazy, wild and wonderful thing it is! As you can tell from the pic, on the list of items to shop for is a new camera with better resolution. Who knew I'd want a photograph of a stick I peed on?? It wasn't much of a surprise, after a few months of trying and tracking my daily morning temperature, I only needed one test to confirm what we already suspected...there is a bun in the oven! I guess we'll put the rest of the multi-pack on the shelf for the future (they don't expire until 2010, which seems like a long time from now...).
Quite quickly we came up with a name...Ziggy, short for zygote...so there'll be no "It" or "The Baby" in conversation. We both keep using the pronouns him, his, and he...wonder if there's some intuition going on or maybe we're just persuaded by the name Ziggy. I not so secretly would love to spoil a little girl first (they're just so much easier to shop for!) but will be thrilled to welcome boy or girl to our family and of course just keep sending up prayers for health and happiness.
I also keep adding a little prayer that there's only ONE little Ziggy that we'll be welcoming! My sister is pregnant with twins, and my dad, feasting on the competitive spirit that exists between my sis and I, keeps saying things like, "Triplets to win, Brigit!"
not funny.
April 14, 2009 is Ziggy's expected arrival date. Along the way I'll add our notes and try to keep everyone updated. Thank you for the warm thoughts, prayers and squeals of joy and congrats the past couple of weeks. We are thrilled and love that our friends and family are equally excited too.
