Cinco de Mayo and telling our families

So, the day we found out we were preggers it was my friend Kelly's birthday, baby Liam was born, baby Tanner was born, Terry found out he pass the Bar and probably a million other things but Cinco de Mayo was special to us because we found out our family of 4 was going to expand to a family of 5 (you gotta count the dogs in that mix, I mean we do treat them like our children). I found out when I went to the doctor earlier in the day to have blood drawn for something different. They wanted me to take a pregnancy test beforehand, just in case. I told the nurse it is going to come out negative so we just stared at it and waited. I asked her what we were looking for and she said 2 lines, I took a peak, shoved her out of the way and I mean shoved, looked at her with wide eyes (and we all know my eyes can get wide) and she said "congratulations, you are pregnant". I stood there with my mouth open for what seemed like an eternity and just smiled, freaked out a little, hugged the nurse, hugged the PA next to me and high fived some random person checking out. I had it so set in my mind that it would take us a while to get pregnant from those details I am sparing you from but low and behold it didn't take long. Of course I could not go back to work that day so I raced home after telling the parking attendant and the cop I was prego and of course telling myself over and over again in my car. I wouldn't let myself call anyone on the way home because I would spill the beans. I rushed inside, told the dogs - they were so excited, and wrapped my prego test up and waited for Danny to get home. He walked in the door and I rushed to him which I am sure he thought was weird, handed him the present, which I am sure he thought was weird and just smiled, which I am sure he was like what is wrong with you. He opened the present looked at me not quite knowing what that thing was but knew 2 lines could only mean one thing so he just smiled, asked if I was serious! I started crying, he started crying, manly tears of course and we on our way to being excited and freaking out. He of course had been ready for babies for a couple years it was me giving the push back so you can imagine the excitement.

Moving on to how we told our parents. Mother's Day just happened to be the next weekend after we found out. We debated on whether we should tell anyone because we were so early, only 6 weeks. After we got my blood results back we found out my levels were not progressing the way they should which could mean my body was possibly getting ready for a miscarriage so as you can imagine we were on the fence(now my levels are completely fine by the way, it was only in the beginning). So, we debated and we debated some more and then said who are we kidding we can't keep this a secret from our families. It was HUGE news! So we told them. We wrote them cards talking about how great they are and then signed the cards: love, Lauren, Danny and baby on the way......I am sure you can imagine what went on from there. There is a short video in case you want to watch the reactions. :) Afterward I must have watched this over and over again because it made me so happy, especially when I was not feeling so hot in those first couple of weeks.

Untitled from Lauren Struzick on Vimeo.

Anything missing???

Yep, you would be right if you said 4 tires. It was so nice of someone to start our week off right. Danny woke me up this morning at 6:15am to say that he couldn't go to work because he had no tires. In my sleepy state I just kind of rolled over and reached my hand up to touch his face to make sure he was real and not in my dream, low and behold my husband was real and was really telling me that his tires were stolen last night. He said he was going to call the insurance agency and make a police report so I felt that was good enough so I just rolled over and went back to sleep. :) Not for long though, once I really realized this was really, really, real I woke up and went outside to document everything, texted a couple people and then got ready for work. Crazy morning! Danny worked from home this morning while getting everything straightened out with the insurance, the popo (police for you that don't speak gangster), and the neighborhood watch lady. Around noon the tow truck came to get his car and off it went. In the meantime Danny gets to drive around in this beast! Watch out people we've got a hottie in a box!



Let me point out that the thieves were nice enough to put rocks under the truck so it wouldn't completely ruin the truck. They were so nice to do that so when we buy the new tires they can just steal them all over again. They better guess again, you don't mess with a pregnant lady! Bring it!!!

In other news, the dogs are doing great, went to the beach for the first time this past weekend. That post will come later this week and the baby is just-a-growin. Baby S is the size of a lemon now, which I am not sure is larger than a peach but who am I do disagree with thebump.com. :)

Hope you all had a better Monday that we did.

In case you haven't heard....

Danny and I are expecting our first BABY! We are so excited and really can't believe it, I mean we can cause we are, but you know what I mean. It's crazy to have this little person moving around in my belly. I am currently 13 weeks along. We had a little scare last week but everything turned out ok. The good thing that came from it was that we got to see the little one. On all the earlier ultrasounds we saw a little bean at 4 weeks and then grew to what looked like a little lizard at 8 weeks and now it has formed into the shape of a baby at 12 weeks. It was moving around like crazy, kicking its feet and waiving its arms. We also got to hear the heartbeat for the first time which was so surreal. It was beating 173 beats per minute. Anyway, I am going to try and post at least once a week to show updates and pictures of my growing belly.

You can see that my belly has a slight bump. Let's be honest, when girls take pictures we automatically suck in, well, this little bump is only going to grow so I better get used to it. :) Also, please excuse my no make up and hair up, I was swimming all day.


Right now baby S is the size of a peach.


Here are some questions that I have seen on other blogs that will get updated each time I post a preggers entry.
how far along? 13 weeks 1 day
how are you measuring? Don't know, haven't measured the belly yet
size of baby? According to thebump.com our baby is 2.9 inches long and .81 oz, the size of a peach
heartbeat? 173 bpm (at our 12.5 week appointment)
total weight gain/loss? + 1 lb
maternity clothes? Not yet but I got a whole bunch from my friend Candace! Pants are getting tighter though so it is only a matter of time.
stretch marks? No, and I am praying they don't come
sleep? OMG can I just tell you that I pee ALL THE TIME! I get up about 2 times every night. That is supposed to subside in the second trimester so we will see.
best moment this week? Hearing the heartbeat and seeing it move!!!
movement? I think the little thing might have ADHD because it was moving like crazy in the ultrasound but I can't feel anything yet.
food cravings? I don't think so. If it is anything I crave fruit.
gender predictions? Don't know. The Chinese calendar thing says we are having a boy but the heart beat predicts a girl
what i miss? Sleeping through a whole night, Diet Dr. Pepper, COFFEE. I am a real big coffee drinker and it has been though not having it every morning. I could do decaf but what is the point.
what i'm looking forward to? Watching my belly grow
how are you feeling? I'm really feeling great now. There were a couple weeks in the first trimester that were a bit rough but now all is good.