First appointment at 10 weeks!

We went to our first OB appointment today. We decided to go to Trihealth Nurse Midwives and we really like the practice!! Everyone there is really nice and we are looking forward to going there. They deliver at Good Sam. Everything went really well, we didn't really hear anything that we didn't already know!! Neither one of us have any health issues so that was easy :) They are still saying the estimated due date is December 27, lets keep our fingers crossed that the baby will decide to come before the holiday!! Physically she said I am measuring around 9 weeks, date wise I am 10 weeks. We met with one of the 6 midwives on staff and loved her. She said they usually can't hear the heartbeat until 11-12 weeks, so we will have to wait until our next appointment, which is June 28. They won't plan to do an ultrasound until around 20 weeks, which is standard practice now. So hopefully we will find out in August if our little one is a boy or girl!! It will be a nice anniversary present and also some encouragement for baby shopping on our Vegas trip with friends the end of August :)

Today was the start of our "Thursday" rituals! Mommy and Daddy planned the midwife appointments on Thursdays and had date days together :)

Mommy - 10 weeks pregnant



Mommy and Daddy at our first midwife appointment:

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! Mommy and Daddy were so excited to finally share the big news of their pregnancy with their families! We wanted to plan something very special to announce our pregnancy.

Mommy and Daddy bought special cards for the grandma's, bibs that said "I Love Grandma", and vases with fresh tulips.



We went to church with Mammaw and Papaw, and went to Outback for lunch with the Branton family. Here is Mammaw opening her card - she looked at the card, grabbed Papaw's glasses, read it again, and then started crying!



Then we went to Mom and Jim's house. Mom was very excited and got the news right away when she read the card!



We then went to Dad and Anne's house, and Grandma Gabbard was there too. It took them both a minute to realize what the cards meant, and then the excitement kicked in!



We were very excited to share our news with our families!! We will be going to our first midwife appointment May 31 at Trihealth Nurse Midwives. Our little baby will be 10 weeks along then!

The secret's out...

Mommy and Daddy went to Putter's to hang out and listen to a band with their friends Danielle, Jon, Mandi, and Heather. Mommy was nervous before going because she was trying to keep the pregnancy a secret until Mother's Day! She had Daddy buy her a strawberry daquiri without any rum so no one would notice she didn't have a grown up drink. Heather noticed this, but Mommy tried to push it off :) A little later that evening, the girls went and brought Mommy another drink and she tried to give it to Daddy, but it didn't work... the girls noticed what I was trying to do, and Heather said "You're pregnant!" Everyone got all excited and started crying and announcing the big news to the people at Putter's :) They were all sworn to secrecy, because the very next day we were having a fundraiser for the March of Dimes, and the grandma's were going to be there!