It's a Baby!

At least they tell me it's a baby! Looks like a mouse to me...

That's right folks, if you haven't heard by now (you've been living under a rock or you just don't know me) we are expecting Baby Lott #2 in October! October 17th to be exact - at least sometime around that date, of course. I had been saying since November, that once my race was over, it would be fair game as far as getting pregnant. Then I changed my mind and said I wanted to wait until after Christmas and the holidays so that I wouldn't be sick. Well, the holidays came and went, and finally in January, I said that it was time. We started trying in January and found out that I was pregnant on February 7th...just like clockwork (my body that is). I am well aware of how blessed we are to be able to get pregnant so easily and am in no way bragging. I just knew that once I gave the ok, that I'd be pregnant shortly after, so I wanted to make sure that I was ready. The pregnancy test was pretty anticlimactic, if you ask me. I took the test and waited for the results while William was on the computer. I saw the positive sign come up, got excited, and had to tell William to at least look up and act excited! (Ok, so he really was excited, but we pretty much already knew it would be positive, so it wasn't a surprise) I had known since the moment I almost threw up at the smell of yogurt several days prior to taking the test that something was going on.

So, we found out we were pregnant, but then we had to wait to tell people for over a month! I wanted to tell my family in person when they were here in March, so we decided they would be the first ones we told. We went to the doctor on March 7th and everything looked great - strong heartbeat and all the right measurements. My family got here on March 11th and we were excited to tell the news. We put Arden to bed in a shirt that said "Big Brother" on it, in hopes that they would see it in the morning and figure it out. Well after a morning of them talking about the dog on his shirt and everything else about his shirt, except for what it said, I had had enough and said "Does anyone see what Arden's shirt actually SAYS?!" They finally noticed it and were really excited...not surpised at all...but excited.

I was really sick pretty much from day one...throwing up at least once a day and usually a lot more than that...nauseated all the time...really tired...just felt terrible in general. So, when I was at the doctor I mentioned how terrible I was feeling and she gave me Zofran, which is the miracle pill. I take it once a day in the morning before I even get out of bed and feel fine the rest of the day. There was no way I could be as sick as I was for as long as I was with Arden, because I now have Arden running around who needs a mom to take care of him! He did however get used to me throwing up. He went from being completely terrified and screaming, to laughing and imitating me, to bringing me blankets at the toilet and slamming my head with the toilet lid (lowest moment of my life thus far, but a funny story to tell now).

Anyway, we're having a baby! We're excited. I'm not thrilled about gaining weight, but I'm dealing with it. Arden is excited to have a baby come live with him, even though he will probably change his mind once it is actually here and taking over his home!

And here he is in all of his Big Brother Glory....

Can YOU read his shirt?!

I'm kind of a big deal around here...