Baby Ross

I've decided to make these blogs short and sweet because let's be honest, pregnancy is not full of energy and patience- at least for me!

SO, I think it is safe to say we pretty much shocked our families with the announcement of Baby Ross. This would probably be because T.J. has always made it known to his family he was NOT ready. Well, when T.J. surprised me on my birthday this past year with the sweet news that he WAS in fact ready to start trying to have a baby we didn't tell a soul! I will spare you the mushiness of realizing T.J. was "ready". But let me just say, that boy can write and he wrote me in one sweet letter that I didn't get through without crying.

We got pregnant in November- HAPPY THANKSGIVING! and we found out we were pregnant on December 9th. I will never forget that night. I was having "symptoms" of pregnancy or what I THOUGHT were symptoms and I knew it was still a couple 4-5 days until we would know for sure if I was pregnant but those clear blue pregnancy tests claim to tell you 3-4 days before a missed period and was I one impatient gal... I tried to convince T.J. we should take one and he did not want to because he didn't want to see a false negative... well, after some moping around and loud sighs of exasperation T.J. said "Kelly if you REALLY want to, that's okay I just don't want us to be disappointed if it says you're not because it is still probably too early to find out". That was enough for me to run in a grab a test! I didn't care it wasn't morning (and the best time to tell if you are pregnant) I just wanted to take one.

Here is where I messed up. T.J. and I have always wanted to take the pregnancy test together, and film our reaction when we see it. Well, when he sat on the couch waiting for me to tell  him to come over, I decided I would just take it really fast, see that it was probably negative and then I wouldn't be as disappointed because we weren't waiting together. So yes, I took the test, said a very meaningful prayer and stared at the digital screen waiting to see if it was "negative" or not. Little to my surprise I look down and it said "PREGNANT". I think I almost fainted. Then I started some sort of high pitch shrill which T.J. didn't understand. I finally said "WE'RE PREGNANT" and his reaction was pure shock and "WHAAT?!?!?! YOU TOOK IT WITHOUT ME?!?! KELLY!!!!" Oops. Looking back it is kind of funny but I did feel bad at the time. That lasted about 5 seconds and then our hugging and crying and giddiness went on the rest of the night. I think we talked on the couch for about 3 hours that night.

We decided to wait and tell our families in person when we went home for Christmas. That was REALLY hard to wait but I am SO GLAD we did wait because I don't think it would've been the same telling them via Skype or Facetime.

We broke the news to "everyone" when I hit 10 weeks. Now I am 12 weeks. I can't wait to be another couple of weeks in and hopefully be free of all of the "morning" sickness. That is a whole different blog all together.

T.J. and I are SO EXCITED to be parents and can't wait to find out if we are having a boy or girl! YES, we will find out. We can't find out soon enough!

I will do my best to keep up little blogs with Baby Ross progress!