diary of a happy {pregnant} white woman: chapter two

six weeks tomorrow! {is it just me or is this pregnancy crawling at a snails pace??}

we told our families last week - the roes on monday {stephen wanted his mom to know first since she was the last to know about bennett}, my parents and rachel on tuesday, and erin {and rachel again} on wednesday.  the way we told all of them was the same:  bennett ran into the room wearing a "big brother" shirt i made him:

 

it really didnt take very long for anyone to figure it out.
stephens dad asked "big brother? what does that mean? ......oooohhhhhh".
the second i took bennetts jacket off at my parents house he ran into the other room.  but my mom caught just enough of a glimpse that she said "what did that say?? natalie!!! what did that say??".
erin screamed and cried like i was telling her SHE was pregnant...i love that girl!

we are waiting to tell stephens brothers in person...michael is coming home this upcoming thursday and we dont know when david is coming. SO if he doesnt come home this weekend, too, we will give him a call.  i fully expect screams and hugs and tears from both of them ;) hehe

it actually did make it so much more "real" to tell them.  now i am open to talk about it ad nauseum whenever the feeling hits me.  not that stephen doesnt want to talk about it, its just that, well, hes a BOY and boys {in my experience} dont really GAB about things.  girls {meaning me} think these things call for excess gabbing, though, so telling family was a necessity.

besides being tired, i have actually had a couple days of nausea/yucky feelings.  i never experienced that with bennett, so it has been new territory.  honestly though, i really dont mind in the least.  rachel was with me the first time the nausea hit and kept saying "ugh i am so sorry you feel so bad".  but i didnt feel bad.  i mean, i felt sick, but it felt great. {wipe that confused look off your face}
it made me happy to have some physical signs that i really AM pregnant.  there really IS a little baby in there.  its so much easier to handle the "sickness" when you know WHY you are feeling the way you are.  and the WHY is a very wonderfully amazingly beautiful WHY :)