On the Father Side of Life....

How 'bout those flowers? That's courtesy of the paternal Grandma to be and Dave. Nikki appreciates the beauty of the flowers, while I admire the engineering of the package in which it arrived. Believe it or not, those flowers came to our front door boxed up and flown in from some exotic locale, packaged in a form fitting cardboard box and just enough water to survive the trip.

Anyway, this blog isn't about air-mailed flowers, it's about a blueberry-sized human that's currently baking inside Nikki's tummy. This being my first blog, I need to catch everyone up on this adventure from the father side of things.

While the miracle at hand had been in the works for at least a couple weeks, the lucky dad-to-be was let in on the secret about three weeks ago. The feeling I had was similar to that experienced the night I asked Nikki to be my wife. All at once were feelings of excitement, nerves, and happiness as she shared the news from the doctor.

I immediately entered paranoid and over-protective husband mode and have spent the past three weeks examining food labels, playing it safe, and generally making sure that Preggo is well taken care of, as she deserves.

Apologies in advance for the sappiness to come over these nine months, but it's an exciting time, and I'm loving every minute. The baby isn't here yet, but just like that, I had a new love in my life. A new little person will be with us soon inheriting all of Nikki's personality, humor, looks, generosity and all-around cuteness and of course inheriting my last name...at least that's the way I'd have it.

Unfortunately for all of us, he or she will be a complete smart ass, courtesy of me.

Here's to baby Premo and the beautiful woman who has to put up with carrying him or her around until next year.

-Daddy

The Beginning...

May 27, 2010: One of the most exciting days of our lives. It was like any other Thursday morning; woke up, had breakfast with Travis and then we went off our separate ways. He went to work, as I went to my last critical thinking class before finals. After class had ended I had time before work and decided to go to the doctor's office. After waiting what seemed like an eternity the doctor confirmed what Travis and I had been hoping for-I'm pregnant! I went the entire day, anxious to talk to Travis and share the exciting news. Of course, I wasn't going to tell him over the phone, so when we were settled in after work, and were debating what to do for dinner-I shared the good news, in shock and excited Travis couldn't have been happier. He took me to Cheesecake factory where we celebrated and decided how we'd tell all of our family and friends.
Which brings the purpose of this blog, to share with all of our family and friends the adventure we're going to be going through for the next nine months and the years to follow. We have so many family member's that aren't in a 5 mile radius that we want them to get all the details our local family members get. Since this is what we say "a team effort" Travis and I will be taking turns writing blogs, so look for who wrote it at the end of each entry.
Here are the two first photos we've taken in the past couple of days to celebrate:
The first one is of the flowers Travis brought home for me the next day after I told him I was pregnant along with "Kole" the stuffed animal the florist shop gave him as a congrats present =) The one below that is a picture of the baby's first pair of jammies-courtesy of Grammy & Grampy Wilson. It's green, so it'll work for boy or girl and as far as Nemo is concerned that's fitting for us because it was the first movie we watched together when we met in 2004. "Finding Nemo".








With that more pictures will soon come. We'll be taking monthly photos of the tummy along with progress of decorating our soon to be nursery.

I love you Travy...

-Mommy to be