It's a baby!

Hi everyone! Many of you won't read this until a few weeks from now, but i wanted to begin chronicling this wonderful story now.

A few weeks ago, kind of beginning of January, Kris and i decided it would be fun and good to try to have another baby. There are several reasons:

• We want our kids close together. David is turning a year old in 2 weeks, and we wanted them close enough in age where they can entertain each other. My brother and i were 7 years apart, so we never got to be friends until he went to college. Plus, once i have two, i won't be the only source of entertainment for David.
• We wanted to have it before we move to Colorado, which would be kind of late August of 2009. It is much harder to move cross-country either pregnant or with a tiny baby. The new baby will be about 8 months old at that time.
• David is such a great baby, we feel it is our duty to humanity to continue to reproduce.
• i must have a girl! This will probably come to bite me someday, but i will have children until i have a girl.
  

So anyway, those were our reasons. i had discontinued taking meds for my hypothyroidism kind of June of 2007, and was starting to have lots of really negative symptoms, so in December i started taking meds again, and am now feeling much better. i have lots more energy and less mood swings than i was having. i had also been gaining weight at kind of an alarming rate, despite diet and exercise, and now i haven't been gaining since i started the pills again. i haven't lost anything yet, but it should kickstart my metabolism so i will lose it or have some turn into muscle, depending on if i'm allowed to work out the same way pregnant.

The doctor wanted my thyroid to be normal before i tried having a baby again, so now that i feel much better, we started trying. i had my last period on Jan. 6, and took ovulation tests and ovulated at about Jan 19th or so. So Kris and i went to work at making a baby, and even though i really shouldn't have taken a test until at least tomorrow, i got really impatient at about 4:30 this morning and took a test. And it was positive! i didn't wake Kris up, though. i just watched a movie until i could fall asleep again, and waited for Kris to go to the bathroom in the morning, with the test there waiting for him. He was pretty happy, though he didn't feel very good and was a bit groggy....i should have shown it to him later in the day, rather than first thing in the morning. But anyway, we're pregnant! And it was on purpose this time, which is always a plus:)

i haven't felt any symptoms yet. i never had morning sickness or anything with David, just an aversion to poultry and later on, my hips hurt and my ankles were swollen. i really lucked out with him. Hopefully it stays this way with New Baby. It still feels kind of surreal. We had just started trying, and Boom! i was pregnant. My stomach feels fluttery and happy.

We won't be telling a lot of people yet, just my closest and/or pregnant friends. We won't tell parents till we have a doctor's appointment. i'm a little nervous about how that will go. i'm afraid they will say we're irresponsible, since we're so broke. People keep telling me, though, that if you wait until you have enough money to have a baby, you'll never have a baby. But Kris will be getting a call from Allina about the jobs he applied for his week, and if he doesn't get them, he's planning on working fast food or landscaping, both of which he has spent years doing in the past. He basically needs a day job where he can be done at about 3 so he can go to work at Outback at night. He's a really hard worker.

We've had baby names ever since we'd been dating about 2 years. We've already got David Kristopher, (David was Kris' best friend since kindergarten who is no longer with us) and Kristopher is obviously for Dada. If this baby is a girl, her name will be Cadence Rae. Cadence is a name i've always loved, and Rae is my middle name, and also my dad's first name is Ray, so it's kind of after him. If this baby is a boy, he will be Jeremy Kurt. Jeremy is the name of a miscarried baby my parents had between my brother and i, and Kurt is David's paternal grandfather's name.

So that is my first post. i was not very good at chronicling the events of David's life in utero, or even post-utero, but i'm determined that this baby will be well-documented.

Welcome Baby J or C!