Who spilled the beans?

We did!  I know that the original plan was to have this glorious Mother's Day 'reveal' of Baby T and that would have worked if my ultrasound date hadn't changed suddenly.  May 3rd was supposed to be the day that I got my visual and auditory confirmation and then that weekend would have been the baby extravaganza.  Since our ultrasound got unexpectedly changed to April 14th, I got my pictures, and saw the heartbeat Hubs and I practically had a race to see who could get to the phone first.  Of course this 'race' is figurative since we have cell phones, but you get the idea.

I am still pretty sure that we're not going to have a Facebook/blog reveal to The World until Mother's Day weekend, but we felt pretty good about letting close friends and family know now.  So the new plan is this:

On Thursday we called people that weren't close enough to go see.  Hubs called his besties who both live at least an hour away and both already have kids of their own.  They were excited.  Then it was my turn and we had the perfect way to tell her... by texting a picture of the ultrasound and nothing else.  You see, when she was pregs with her 3rd that's how she told everyone; a text of the positive pregnancy test.  So we figured, "All's fair."  The best part about doing this was that NO ONE was expecting it.  Like I said before, in public we were very wishy-washy on the whole baby situation so I am sure a lot of people just assumed that we may never have kids at all.  Bad part about the text idea - she didn't freakin' get it!  Foiled.  So I call her and tell her that I texted her a picture and was dying to know what she thought about it.  This is normal for us because we always send picture messages of funny license plates and bumper stickers.  I don't know how that tradition started, but it did.  We're really good at it.  Anyway, back to the story.  I text this picture to her 3 times and nothing.  So, I email it... nothing.  Why is this being so difficult?  At this point I am on the phone with her for over 20 minutes and am dying so I gave up.  I told her I was just going to explain it to her.  I told her that Hubs and I took a picture of something that we made for her youngest son (6 months old).  When she asked what it was I said, "A friend."  It took her a few seconds to register it and then all I got were, "Oh my goshes" and "Squeals".

Then it was on to dinner with LC and MW at our monthly ladies' night.  I definitely couldn't hold it in very long after getting off of the phone with RD moments before I walked into the restaurant.  I got to the table, said hello, sat down, and was asked, "How've you been?"  I had a simple, giggling reply for them, "I'm pregnant"  I think it came out as somewhat of a whisper but their faces were amazing.  I have to say that I'm so glad that we're having babies later in life.  So far everyone has been excited and that feels really great.