This stuff better work... because I'M PREGNANT!I'm due May 30 and 16 weeks along. We found out I was pregnant the end of September, but decided to wait until I was out of the first trimester to announce. We will find out in about a month if it is a boy or a girl. We don't care which it is, just as long as it is a healthy baby. Carson would love to have a boy first, which is why I think it's a girl just so she can melt his heart and soften him up. The pictures below are how we announced to our families.
Since our last name is Italian and Carson's great grandparents crossed the seas from Italy, there is a lot of Italian pride in his family. I found this shirt online and thought it would be perfect for announcing to his family. Carson took this picture of me wearing it the night we announced to them. He then sent a text to his family that weren't there that said, "My Halloween Scare" (it was on Halloween night.) It didn't take them long to figure it out after they read the shirt!
For my family, we decided to carve/paint pumpkins with them to announce. In this picture, you can see that I am sitting in the corner trying to hide what I'm painting on my pumpkin so I don't ruin the surprise!
If you're not sure what's on the pumpkin, it's supposed to be the face of a mummy with my due date written above. Each person that painted/carved a pumpkin took turns showing it off, and I waited until the very last. When it was my turn, I announced, "I'm going to be a mummy May 30!"
We feel excited, overwhelmed, unsure, thrilled, and all the other emotions that newly parents-to-be experience. Many of you know that I am the youngest in my family and wasn't around babies much growing up.... So as you can imagine, I need ALL the HELP and ADVICE I can get. Feel free to leave a comment with your advice and suggestions on good books to read that will help me prepare for motherhood or any other pregnancy/baby/mother tips you've come to learn from your own experiences. It will be greatly appreciated!
