That's right... Miss Jenna is going to be a big sister! Yikes! We've been trying to keep this a secret, but I'm getting bigger by the day, so it's time we shared our news.
I've anticipated the questions I will be getting so here are my answers:
Q: When are you due?
A: I'm 11 weeks, due Dec. 30. (Hopefully a tax deduction baby, not a New Year's Baby!) Since Jenna was late and we had to evict her, I'm just going to assume Baby #2 is going to be 1 - 2 weeks late.
Q. When did you find out?
A. The night of Mother's Day. We were shocked & excited. We decided not to tell anyone until we had our first ultrasound (which was Wednesday!).
Q: Are you guys crazy?
A: Yes. Yes we are very crazy! We were kinda hoping to wait a little longer, but we're excited. I wrote a blog post awhile back about "Baby No. 2".....I said we'd probably wait until Jenna was 2 to try and have another baby. Well I should have known that would seal our fate!
Q. Don't you know how this happens?
A. We do now, for sure!
Q. Are you going to find out the sex?
A. No. In addition to torturing our family and friends, we loved not finding out with Jenna so we will not find out with this one. We don't need to buy anything because our stuff is mostly gender neutral. The only items I am going to look at getting is a double stroller and possibly a king-size bed in the event that we end up with 2 babies sleeping with us! If we have a girl we can use Jenna's clothes and if we have a boy we can slowly stock up on those things after the baby is born.
Q. How's the pregnancy going?
A. I started out feeling super hungry. I was waking up in the middle of the night hungry. Then about a week after we found out, the nausea kicked in, which escalated into vomiting shortly after (lovely, I know!). There's nothing like being sick when you have a little one to chase after! I was definitely feel way worse with our second little bean than I ever did with Miss J. Maybe that means it's a boy? I started feeling better, so hopefully the nausea is gone for good!
Q. Any cravings?
A. I'm craving red chile. And I mean craving it. It's so weird...I didn't even really like red chile that much before. I was more of green chile kinda girl.
Q. Are you thinking about names?
A. No. My last pregnancy I told everyone my list of names and then got sad by some of the feedback people gave me. You wouldn't believe how vocal people are when it comes to names. Some of the comments I got were things like, "I don't like that name..." or "That name reminds me of this fat girl I used to know..." or "That name is too ethnic." We ended up picking "Jenna" which wasn't on any of our lists, so we hadn't gotten any negative feedback which was nice. This time we will not tell anyone our top names. Sorry!
We are definitely excited and thrilled yet terrified and nervous, all at the same time. Unless by some miracle I get Jenna potty-trained, I will have 2 in diapers. I also want to wean Jenna sometime before the new baby gets here (hopefully by 15 months). And I need to transition her into sleeping at night in her crib or we need to buy a King-Size bed to fit all the babies!
I've anticipated the questions I will be getting so here are my answers:
Q: When are you due?
A: I'm 11 weeks, due Dec. 30. (Hopefully a tax deduction baby, not a New Year's Baby!) Since Jenna was late and we had to evict her, I'm just going to assume Baby #2 is going to be 1 - 2 weeks late.
Q. When did you find out?
A. The night of Mother's Day. We were shocked & excited. We decided not to tell anyone until we had our first ultrasound (which was Wednesday!).
Q: Are you guys crazy?
A: Yes. Yes we are very crazy! We were kinda hoping to wait a little longer, but we're excited. I wrote a blog post awhile back about "Baby No. 2".....I said we'd probably wait until Jenna was 2 to try and have another baby. Well I should have known that would seal our fate!
Q. Don't you know how this happens?
A. We do now, for sure!
Q. Are you going to find out the sex?
A. No. In addition to torturing our family and friends, we loved not finding out with Jenna so we will not find out with this one. We don't need to buy anything because our stuff is mostly gender neutral. The only items I am going to look at getting is a double stroller and possibly a king-size bed in the event that we end up with 2 babies sleeping with us! If we have a girl we can use Jenna's clothes and if we have a boy we can slowly stock up on those things after the baby is born.
Q. How's the pregnancy going?
A. I started out feeling super hungry. I was waking up in the middle of the night hungry. Then about a week after we found out, the nausea kicked in, which escalated into vomiting shortly after (lovely, I know!). There's nothing like being sick when you have a little one to chase after! I was definitely feel way worse with our second little bean than I ever did with Miss J. Maybe that means it's a boy? I started feeling better, so hopefully the nausea is gone for good!
Q. Any cravings?
A. I'm craving red chile. And I mean craving it. It's so weird...I didn't even really like red chile that much before. I was more of green chile kinda girl.
Q. Are you thinking about names?
A. No. My last pregnancy I told everyone my list of names and then got sad by some of the feedback people gave me. You wouldn't believe how vocal people are when it comes to names. Some of the comments I got were things like, "I don't like that name..." or "That name reminds me of this fat girl I used to know..." or "That name is too ethnic." We ended up picking "Jenna" which wasn't on any of our lists, so we hadn't gotten any negative feedback which was nice. This time we will not tell anyone our top names. Sorry!
We are definitely excited and thrilled yet terrified and nervous, all at the same time. Unless by some miracle I get Jenna potty-trained, I will have 2 in diapers. I also want to wean Jenna sometime before the new baby gets here (hopefully by 15 months). And I need to transition her into sleeping at night in her crib or we need to buy a King-Size bed to fit all the babies!
Some people swear it's not possible to "show" before like 16 weeks, but I disagree. Call it "bloating" call it "left-over stretched skin and fat from the first pregnancy"- I have a baby bump!
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6 comments:
We are so happy for you! Congratulations.
Sonny, Tanya, & Zachary
Congratulations! Let's hope he/she doesn't come early! :-)
Congratulations. My 5 children are 13 to 14 months apart. No multiples. Now they are all adults. Looking back I loved having them so close in age. Enjoy.
Congratulations on your great news! I know exactly how you feel about the name thing - I am due in 2.5 weeks and we had a list of names that we had told our parents about and they all had opinions on everything, so we've now come up with 2 names (1 boy, 1 girl) that we haven't told anyone :)
Hope that the morning sickness stays away :)
Ahhh!!! Congratulations!!! So excited for you! Jenna is going to be a great big sister!!
I swear Marcie you are the cutest preggo woman I have ever seen!!! I don't know how I am one of the last to know, but I am sooo happy and excited for you!!! Love and remember to add another baby to you stick figure family below!
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