Theres no hippos on my roof eating cake, but there is a Bundy baby in my tummy making me feel dreadful, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
We found out on boxing day when we got the 2 lines on the pee stick. I couldn't believe it as we had been trying for a while ..(for any of you who have heard Greggs stories about his 'dogs bollocks sperm', please disregard the above statement, we weren't trying for a while, we had one go and hey presto, his dogs bollocks sperm made a home run) .. We did 8 tests in total, and when i say 'WE' i really mean 'WE' as when we kept getting positive results Gregg actually peed on a stick to make sure he wasn't pregnant! .. And he wasn't, which is a relief, and dissapointing at the same time as if he was pregnant we could probably tick the 2 major things off our wish list .. #1 - adding to the family .. And #2 - getting rich. Surely Greggs pregnancy would make a few cover stories which could pay the mortgage, but it wasn't to be, so i'll be the pregnant one and he can remain the unpregnant, dogs bollocks sperm carrier.
We tried SO hard to keep it a secret until we hit the 12 week mark, but that just wasn't to be either, we told close friends and family straight away, and we were busting to make the news fb public for the rest of our friends who are just as dear to us but we don't get to talk to or catch up with as often as we'd like to.
So no more secrets, we are simply too excited to have secrets. The kids are SO excited. Roxiee can't wait to 'sniff' the baby?? Heaths excited at the prospect of having special jobs, although I'm sure that will wear off. Greggs either excited, or smiling and nodding to stop me from stabbing him in a fit of whoremonal rage (yes, i know i spelt that different, it's actually the correct way to spell it. Doubt me and i'll stab you too!) .. And then theres me, I'm excited of course, but at the same time I'm feeling like I'm carrying Mt Everests love-child. Slightly uncomfortable, slightly huge and all entirely expected.
Might i add THE most important detail here .. We had a friend up from Melbourne (Troy, you're famous on my blog, not that you read it!) and as we were sitting outside i noticed for the first time ever that an elephant statue on my table had it's trunk down. Now - everyone knows thats bad luck, don't they?!?! Well, it was a gorgeous elephant, but i put it in the bin straight away. I told Gregg and troy that great things would happen now and they have .. Roxiee won TWO raffles that night at her Christmas party, we fell pregnant (thanks to the dogs bollocks sperm of course - nothing to do with the elephant) and none of us have been eaten by wild geckos. If thats not good luck then i dont know what is!
When we first told the kids about the baby, Roxiee immediately started asking when she could 'sniff it' .. Now i know that may sound odd, but she's a special little soul and it's just easier to go along with her little oddities so we told her she could sniff it as soon as it came out, but NOT before! We had to clarrify that :-/
Heath on the other hand - he was all about the 'where did it come from' .. He had asked about babies a few months prior and i told him that the mum and dad have a 'special cuddle' in bed and then a baby starts growing. The conversation went a little something like this ..
Me : "so soon, the dr will get the baby out and we will bring him/her to the new house"
Heath : "well, i didn't see you have the special cuddle?"
Me : "no you didnt, because special cuddles are private"
Heath : "well, have another one now"
Me : "they're private Heath. Very private"
Heath : "whatever. Roxiee, let's go have a special cuddle" .. At this point i changed the subject. Heath later emerged from playing cars in his room to tell me that he too had a baby in his tummy ..
At the dating ultrasound, we were too early in the pregancy for the sonographer to really see anything other than the gestational sac ..
It was a family occasion and we were all there to see the baby for the first time ..
Sonographer : "im thinking you can either come back in a week or so when you're further along so we can see more, or we can try an internal ultrasound"
Me : "Uh wow, let me think about this one? Hmm, yes i think i'll come back in a week lady!!"
The sac was there, the dates were right, everything seemed fine to me. And then gregg spoke!
Gregg : "C'mon love, just get the internal, its easier that way"
.. UHHHHHH, easier for YOU! Have you SEEN the INSTRUMENT she's going to insert?!? ..
"its easier that way" .. Says the man with the penis to the lady with the pregnant vagina!!!! Ha!
So, all in all we are one terribly excited family and i strongly suggest that you hide my status updates from facebook if you don't want to be updated on every step of the way.
2012 is looking SO impressive for us, Heath starts grade 1, Roxiee starts Kinder, we move into our new house, we will have our baby and i will be on the hunt for more elephants with erect trunks ..
We found out on boxing day when we got the 2 lines on the pee stick. I couldn't believe it as we had been trying for a while ..(for any of you who have heard Greggs stories about his 'dogs bollocks sperm', please disregard the above statement, we weren't trying for a while, we had one go and hey presto, his dogs bollocks sperm made a home run) .. We did 8 tests in total, and when i say 'WE' i really mean 'WE' as when we kept getting positive results Gregg actually peed on a stick to make sure he wasn't pregnant! .. And he wasn't, which is a relief, and dissapointing at the same time as if he was pregnant we could probably tick the 2 major things off our wish list .. #1 - adding to the family .. And #2 - getting rich. Surely Greggs pregnancy would make a few cover stories which could pay the mortgage, but it wasn't to be, so i'll be the pregnant one and he can remain the unpregnant, dogs bollocks sperm carrier.
We tried SO hard to keep it a secret until we hit the 12 week mark, but that just wasn't to be either, we told close friends and family straight away, and we were busting to make the news fb public for the rest of our friends who are just as dear to us but we don't get to talk to or catch up with as often as we'd like to.
So no more secrets, we are simply too excited to have secrets. The kids are SO excited. Roxiee can't wait to 'sniff' the baby?? Heaths excited at the prospect of having special jobs, although I'm sure that will wear off. Greggs either excited, or smiling and nodding to stop me from stabbing him in a fit of whoremonal rage (yes, i know i spelt that different, it's actually the correct way to spell it. Doubt me and i'll stab you too!) .. And then theres me, I'm excited of course, but at the same time I'm feeling like I'm carrying Mt Everests love-child. Slightly uncomfortable, slightly huge and all entirely expected.
Might i add THE most important detail here .. We had a friend up from Melbourne (Troy, you're famous on my blog, not that you read it!) and as we were sitting outside i noticed for the first time ever that an elephant statue on my table had it's trunk down. Now - everyone knows thats bad luck, don't they?!?! Well, it was a gorgeous elephant, but i put it in the bin straight away. I told Gregg and troy that great things would happen now and they have .. Roxiee won TWO raffles that night at her Christmas party, we fell pregnant (thanks to the dogs bollocks sperm of course - nothing to do with the elephant) and none of us have been eaten by wild geckos. If thats not good luck then i dont know what is!
When we first told the kids about the baby, Roxiee immediately started asking when she could 'sniff it' .. Now i know that may sound odd, but she's a special little soul and it's just easier to go along with her little oddities so we told her she could sniff it as soon as it came out, but NOT before! We had to clarrify that :-/
Heath on the other hand - he was all about the 'where did it come from' .. He had asked about babies a few months prior and i told him that the mum and dad have a 'special cuddle' in bed and then a baby starts growing. The conversation went a little something like this ..
Me : "so soon, the dr will get the baby out and we will bring him/her to the new house"
Heath : "well, i didn't see you have the special cuddle?"
Me : "no you didnt, because special cuddles are private"
Heath : "well, have another one now"
Me : "they're private Heath. Very private"
Heath : "whatever. Roxiee, let's go have a special cuddle" .. At this point i changed the subject. Heath later emerged from playing cars in his room to tell me that he too had a baby in his tummy ..
At the dating ultrasound, we were too early in the pregancy for the sonographer to really see anything other than the gestational sac ..
It was a family occasion and we were all there to see the baby for the first time ..
Sonographer : "im thinking you can either come back in a week or so when you're further along so we can see more, or we can try an internal ultrasound"
Me : "Uh wow, let me think about this one? Hmm, yes i think i'll come back in a week lady!!"
The sac was there, the dates were right, everything seemed fine to me. And then gregg spoke!
Gregg : "C'mon love, just get the internal, its easier that way"
.. UHHHHHH, easier for YOU! Have you SEEN the INSTRUMENT she's going to insert?!? ..
"its easier that way" .. Says the man with the penis to the lady with the pregnant vagina!!!! Ha!
So, all in all we are one terribly excited family and i strongly suggest that you hide my status updates from facebook if you don't want to be updated on every step of the way.
2012 is looking SO impressive for us, Heath starts grade 1, Roxiee starts Kinder, we move into our new house, we will have our baby and i will be on the hunt for more elephants with erect trunks ..
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| At only 6 weeks there really was no hiding my tummy. Be it bloat/baby/gas/water .. it couldn't be hidden whatever it was! |
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| Yay! .. this was test #8! |
