Thank you all SO much for the kind words of congratulations about our news! I was really looking forward to sharing it, and it was so nice to check email yesterday and find all of those messages waiting for us.
I’ve been trying to be good and unplug while we’re in Hawaii (Aron’s parents have taken us and his sister’s family to Maui to celebrate their anniversary), and have some other things to share later this week, but I couldn’t help but log on to say thank you. We’re really excited!
We have some exciting news! Our family will become a family of four this February!
I had one of those classic I-thought-only-in-movies discoveries that I was pregnant: I went to the doctor for completely unrelated back pain and came away completely surprised! They wanted to be sure I didn’t have a kidney stone (I didn’t) and the doctor sort of skimmed over the news in one breath. Something like, “you have a positive pregnancy test so we can’t do an x-ray, and want to send you for a renal ultrasound. And by the way, please don’t take any more Ibuprofen.” Wait, what?!
Despite my posting about accepting an only child (or none at all) as a perfectly happy form of family—a complete one (which I stand by)—we had always imagined having another, so it was a good surprise. The funny thing is… remember how I had put off that trip to Paris before because I was pregnant? Thinking naively that traveling there with a toddler might be more fun? Well guess who was pregnant in Paris this time? I just didn’t know it!
