A New Development

This is the newest member of our family. We are so excited. Nolan seems slightly excited too. I'm not quite sure if he understands yet or not. When we ask him if he's going to be a big brother, he says, "Yes. Like Caillou." For those of you who are not familiar with Caillou, he is a cartoon character on TV. Nolan loves Caillou.

I'm thinking this picture is a cross section of the heart. Not sure though...
So to shed a little light on how we figured out we were pregnant, here's the story...

One day I just felt like I could be. Not wanting to disgust anyone, I will just say I had an early sign of pregnancy. The next evening, I took my first pregnancy test. This is it...

Not believing it, I immediately took another one. I still didn't believe it...

So at Thanksgiving (the next weekend maybe...), I had my dad bring home another test from the office...The first line is the control, and the second line means you're pregnant....

I still didn't believe it, so we didn't tell anyone (except Mom and Dad because of the test) until I had my first ultrasound and actually saw a heartbeat! Yay! We were super happy! We told most everyone at Christmas!

Now when we ask Nolan if he is going to have a brother or a sister, he says, "A sister, like Caillou." We'll see. I don't have any premonitions, but most people I talk to says it's a girl, so maybe Nolan knows something I don't. We'll see...All I know is we'll be happy with either.

P.S. We were trying. It was just a bit of a surprise it happened so fast and that it happened when it happened. It took us about 18 months to get pregnant with Nolan! It took us about six months this time!