Julie & John

Saturday, October 22, 2011

14 weeks

Can you believe it...I haven't disappeared for 6 months! Here are the 14 week pics of the Baby G.


Maybe is growing like crazy. It still kind of weird's me out when I put the ultrasound on and see that this is inside of ME. I'm so use to looking at everyone else's little people that I still can't seem to believe that this is really happening!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

12 weeks

Another milestone...we told work. I thankfully have a really supportive class who was completely willing to make the schedule changes necessary. I will get 6 weeks maternity leave and will graduate on time (as long as everything goes ok). John unfortunately will only get 1 week paternity. But he should only have a few weeks left of residency when I come back from maternity. Here is Maybe's latest picture. We had our first prenatal visit on Friday and our OB scanned me afterwards. This was John's first time to see the baby and he was so excited to see it bounce and move...it has arms and legs! (I know it isn't an IT, but really what else do you call it at this point!)


We celebrated Jon and Stephanie Seccombe's wedding last night. They were both so happy! Steph looked absolutely beautiful! We can't wait to deck night soon!



10 weeks...Announcement Time!

2 weeks ago we headed to Dallas for Brian and Rosie's Wedding! It was such a beautiful wedding and they both couldn't have been happier. Miss Cate, who has grown into a little girl overnight, was an adorable flower girl.




The night before at the Rehearsal dinner the margaritas were flowing which required some crafty glass switches since we hadn't yet told anyone. After dinner Mom and Dad had everyone back to their suite to continue the fun. John and I managed to grab Mom, Dad, Carolyn, Lanny, Brian, and Cate to share the news. We had made a photo book of all the ultrasounds to show them Maybe grow.




It was SO nice to finally tell everyone! Dad instantly left the room and told everyone in the suite! I guess you could say he's excited to be Papa to more grandkids. We then spent the rest of the week spreading the news
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We drove to Norman for the day to tell John's Mom and Dad and Granny. They were all so excited! We got to tell Austen and Jennifer on a trip to Fort Worth to see them and Brooks "The Carter." Some people we couldn't tell in person, like Tina and Brad. I had written a card telling them but of course I never actually mailed it so we texted them picture of the letter being opened.



































So the news is out! Watch out, we just might be making a blogging come back!



8 weeks

9/8/2011

So, we have made it 2 more weeks without managing to spill the beans to anyone. Not that we haven't wanted to! In fact a friend who I had talked very openly with during the whole trying process called today to ask a favor but the first thing she asked was "Do you have any news for me?" and I so badly wanted to say YES!! WE ARE PREGNANT! Instead I just said "Not yet." John talked to Austen and Jennifer the other night and told them we have some news, they instantly said "Julie's pregnant!" but he lied and said no, the news was actually that we got season tickets to the Frogs. They said that every time we call they are hoping for the pregnant news. We are actually going to tell them when we are in Dallas for my brother's wedding!

I've also had some close call's at work. I had to step out of the same case TWICE because I was about to pass out. Everyone asked and I just kept saying I haven't been feeling well today. Thankfully I had a mask on to lie behind. This weekend on call I had to have a nurse get me some Reglan because I was having trouble functioning with the nausea, but lied and said that I had some bad cafeteria for lunch...I guess not totally a lie.

Soon enough we will get to share the news! Until then I have intentions of scanning myself every 2 weeks or so especially at the beginning so I can give a picture to family and they can watch Maybe grow. Plus it's a perk of the job having easy access to an ultrasound machine. So Tuesday I snuck the ultrasound (had to lie and say I was scanning a nurse). I just love knowing that everything is ok and hearing that heart beat!

Anyway's, here is Maybe's latest shot. Growing right on track!


Only 2 more weeks until we go to Dallas and tell the families! But, how to tell everyone? If only I could ask you all for advice!









Well...maybe!


8/24/2011

Some of you that know us well know that we are planners. I decided in 2nd grade I wanted to be a doctor. So when we decided it was time to start working on the grandkids that had been ordered we chose the perfect timing so that we would be due with the perfect timing to deliver. And then we watched that "perfect" timing fly out the door. Little did we know that the real perfect timing was to come...and it has!

Fast forward 2 weeks (of wondering and waiting to find out if this would take or not) and I squeezed in for a secret ultrasound.

(The first of MANY ultrasounds to come!)

And that tiny little bubble inside the black is our new little Goodwin! It even had a tiny little heartbeat. I smiled from ear to ear as I heard that sound. That sound we had planned for, and then got when we were least expecting it.

When we had a scare (way before we were trying) and I wasn't drinking one morning at boozy breakfast (that's right I said morning, we go for breakfast and mimosas on our last night of night float each week) a friend asked if we were pregnant and I said "Maybe." She replied "you have a Maybe Baby?!" Each time when I told John I was late he would ask if I was pregnant and I would reply, "well, Maybe." And the name Maybe has stuck ever since. While we have no intentions of calling the baby Maybe, for now that's the little one's nickname.

And so this marks the return of our blog...except I'm not posting it yet! We haven't told anyone other than our OB and the sonographer who agreed to scan me in secret (gossip travels fast around that crazy place I work!). We have been so eager to tell, but yet still so nervous as we are still so early. So I'm hoping to blog without posting and will then post all of these once we are ready to share the news. Hopefully this will help us keep our secret until it's time!