Today marks the start of the third trimester and I just can't believe how close we are getting to meeting BABY.
How has it already been 28 weeks growing this little babe!?
How has it already been 28 weeks growing this little babe!?
I have dreamt about what it would be like to be pregnant for as long as I can remember, and now we are somehow 2/3 of the way through this pregnancy and I find my thoughts switching over to the baby being in my arms. I wake up in the middle of the night now and feel all those anxious thoughts about what birth will be like and how we will be as parents! My favorite thing to do these days is have quiet "bonding" time where i'm just relaxing and feeling the baby kick and move around. Every single day of this pregnancy, I have felt like this experience is the most miraculous thing in the world and I can't believe I get to do this...I know that might sound silly but I can't believe I get to grow our baby and become a mama and start a family with Ben... ♡ I swear it still hasn't sunk in even though my bump is so big now, strangers see me splitting a cookie with twin and tell me I deserve my own cookie because i'm "eating for two!"
Back when we found out:
Not too long after we moved back from Charleston and settled into our new place last winter, I bought a pregnancy test on my way home from work thinking there was no way I was actually pregnant, but I should just take a test so I could mentally move on until the next month. I remember thinking that I felt silly even buying a test because I couldn't imagine this happening! I got home and had a little time before Ben would be home from work so I took the test and set it down and went into the living room to wait the three minutes (it felt like an eternity!) Once the timer went off, my heart was pounding out of my chest just from how nerve wracking the moment was. I somehow got the courage up to go look at the test and when I picked it up, I saw TWO lines! I just stood in the kitchen in complete shock with the happiest tears in my eyes yelling, "what! what! what! Oh my god I'm pregnant?! me?!" It definitely did not feel real!
I left to pick up Ben from the train station and got out of the car and ran up and grabbed him in the parking lot. I've had visions of what THIS moment would be like for so long and how I would find some cute way to tell him and in reality, I couldn't keep it inside for more than two seconds once I saw him. We got in the car and I told him I took a test and it said I was pregnant (!!!) and we stayed there in the car for a while just holding each other. We decided to pick up burritos and drive to the beach to celebrate even though it was the middle of January... :) When we pulled out of the burrito place, I looked up and saw a street sign right in front of us and the name of the street was the name we have always had picked out for a baby boy someday. In that moment, I realized that maybe this dream was actually happening.
the shock that night!
...and telling twin a few days later! Ben took a video and pretended he was just taking a photo of us. This was her reaction when he said, "1,2,3... say Laura's pregnant!"
Not too long after we moved back from Charleston and settled into our new place last winter, I bought a pregnancy test on my way home from work thinking there was no way I was actually pregnant, but I should just take a test so I could mentally move on until the next month. I remember thinking that I felt silly even buying a test because I couldn't imagine this happening! I got home and had a little time before Ben would be home from work so I took the test and set it down and went into the living room to wait the three minutes (it felt like an eternity!) Once the timer went off, my heart was pounding out of my chest just from how nerve wracking the moment was. I somehow got the courage up to go look at the test and when I picked it up, I saw TWO lines! I just stood in the kitchen in complete shock with the happiest tears in my eyes yelling, "what! what! what! Oh my god I'm pregnant?! me?!" It definitely did not feel real!
I left to pick up Ben from the train station and got out of the car and ran up and grabbed him in the parking lot. I've had visions of what THIS moment would be like for so long and how I would find some cute way to tell him and in reality, I couldn't keep it inside for more than two seconds once I saw him. We got in the car and I told him I took a test and it said I was pregnant (!!!) and we stayed there in the car for a while just holding each other. We decided to pick up burritos and drive to the beach to celebrate even though it was the middle of January... :) When we pulled out of the burrito place, I looked up and saw a street sign right in front of us and the name of the street was the name we have always had picked out for a baby boy someday. In that moment, I realized that maybe this dream was actually happening.
the shock that night!
...and telling twin a few days later! Ben took a video and pretended he was just taking a photo of us. This was her reaction when he said, "1,2,3... say Laura's pregnant!"
Baby Salley is due on the last day of summer and we are so excited for all the moments that are ahead. I'm planning on savoring the last three months of my bumpin' summer to the fullest with this sweet one and having fun with creating a dreamy little gender neutral nursery. I've been lucky so far and surprisingly felt really good, so it should be interesting to see what i'm in for and how I feel as this bump gets bigger and the weather gets hotter!
You make us so happy, baby :)
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