Telling Our Families...

When you find out you are pregnant, it is SO hard to not shout it to the world--you just feel like you are hiding something from everyone! I love surprises, but I love doing the surprise...not waiting to do the surprise. We decided that we wanted to share our news with our immediate families pretty early because regardless of what happened, we wanted their support and love. So it began...how do we tell our parents?!?! Christi's dad loves a Hershey bar, so we decided to use that to our advantage when telling her dad and family (see picture and video below). We were about to leave on a cruise with Nathan's parents, so we decided to tell them that we were going to have a party of 5 on the ship, instead of the originally planned 4. Christi's mom recently mentioned that she was amazed by a co-workers ultrasound picture and how much it showed. So, we decided the ultrasound video (seen in previous posts) was the way to go to share with Christi's mom and family. To always have a memory of telling our parents, we decided to video their reactions--how did we do this? You have to be sneaky--our point-and-shoot camera has video, so Nathan just hid it in his pocket and by the time we were doing each surprise, our parents didn't even notice him video taping--we will treasure these videos forever, and we can't wait to show them to Brady one day!

Seeing Baby Brady for the First Time

At my first doctor's appointment, I was only 6 1/2 weeks pregnant! This little video shows just what little Brady looked like a such a YOUNG age in his first ultrasound. Basically, he looks like a little bean (or little peanut as the doctor calls him in the video) with a fluttering heartbeat, which was HUGE for us to be able to see at this point! To know that he was on his way to developing and already had a heartbeat was an amazing sense of relief...well, as much as it can be at this point in pregnancy. Isn't it amazing how quickly a little one begins developing?!?!