Friday (4/5/13) I took a pregnancy test in the morning. It was a day
early, but I thought if there was some small chance that we really were
pregnant then maybe I should find out a day early so I could find something
cute to give Mic Saturday morning to announce it. And obviously I couldn't
leave Saturday to go get anything after taking the test because he’d be home
and would catch on. So that’s why I did it early, but I wasn’t expecting to see
two lines. Although the second line was really faint, and I was still in the
mentality of the ovulation predictor tests that the second line has to be as
dark or darker than the first line to be a positive result. So when I first saw
the second line appear lightly it didn’t strike me as being positive. After two
minutes of looking at it though, it dawned on me that a second line, faint or not,
indicated positive. I decided that the test must be faulty or expired. So
I tried a second test. Same faint results. At this point I’m entertaining the
idea that maybe I am indeed pregnant. Except I don’t feel any different. So I
decide to go to Target to get a better test for Saturday, as well as find
something cute to announce to Mic our crazy news.
I found this cute monkey that I could totally picture in a
crib or being toted around our house. The pink monkey was really cute, and I
wondered about chancing it and getting pink and hoping we ended up with a girl,
but then I thought that might jinx things. So I got a cute orange/brown one
that seemed gender neutral. Not sure why the full fledged brown one seemed
masculine looking. LOL.
I came home and hid both the test and the monkey in my
dresser drawer. It made me laugh, that my hiding place for everything seems to
be my dresser drawers. So random.
Saturday we wake up and Mic asks me when I’m going to take a
test. I wanted to surprise him with the monkey and not have him know that its
coming. I tell him that I’m just going to take the test Sunday because then
it’ll be more accurate. He thinks I’m crazy to think I can wait an extra day
when we’ve been waiting two weeks for these results. Really in the grand scheme
of things, we’ve been waiting for this moment for a really long time. But I stick
to my Sunday plan. He turns on the tv, and after a while I go to the bathroom
to try out the “better” test. It says it’s accurate up to 4 days earlier, so I
figure it should read correctly, and not be a fluke like the day before’s
tests. Because I’m still considering those two tests flukes.
I pee on the stick for 5 seconds, and put it in the cupboard
under the sink, because I can't look. The box says to wait for 3 min to read results. I wait for one
minute, looking at my phone. Then I realize 3 min is a long time and is making
me crazy impatient but I can’t get myself to peek early, so I decide to go to
the kitchen and load the dishwasher. Cleaning makes everything better. Once
the dishes are all in their place I head back to the bathroom. I look at the
test, the test with two equally dark lines. Positive. Pregnant. You’ve got to
be kidding me!? So I walk to the bedroom and get the monkey, and put the bag of
candy in its arms with the test behind it. Then I walk into the living room
where Mic is and say “I have a treat, close your eyes and open your mouth.”
This isn’t unusual because I’m always having Mic guess random candy this way.
So he does it, and I turn off the tv and hand it to him. He opens his eyes and
looks at the candy and says “yum candy! But what’s with the monkey?” and I say
“It’s a little monkey for our monkey.” And he repeats “our monkey?” all
confused. And I pull the positive pregnancy test out from behind the candy and
he gets this look on his face where he isn’t sure if he believes me but at the
same time realization hits that he knows I wouldn’t joke about this, and if I’m
not joking about us being pregnant than we must really be. It turned out
perfect.
So I’m pregnant! Our due date is the day after my nursing
school graduation. Dec. 14th. 36 long weeks away. Crazy!
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| the monkey for "our monkey" :) |
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| 4 wks pregnant. |
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| the first picture of our baby |
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