How to get the family involved

Well, baby had the second official airplane ride (first was Nashville) and met one side of the family. With Grandma Lee's passing, we packed everything up and headed to Michigan. If we had known this trip was coming, we'd have done things a little different, see on Thanksgiving we started telling our family. The excitement of sharing was fun, hard to believe our little secret isn't such a secret. If we knew an in-person visit was coming, we might have waited to see their faces when we shared. Either way was fun to see them excited and share in what's happening. They are taking bets on whether we are having a boy or girl. even ensured that we did the ring test.
Was cute when little Jason stated that he's getting a new cousin! Was so sweet!

We had a few hiccups when coming home. Baby did not like the dissent into MSP. After a few turns to do final approach, I got very nauseous and Matt was reach for the puke bag. Matt was a bit concerned that baby doesn't like to fly but we'll see further down the road.

We also started doing some equipment shopping. Looking at crates (Matt's word for the playpen) and pushcarts (strollers). We were a little concerned with our future survival of our child as it took us 10 minutes to get the carrier out of the stroller base. Let's not discuss all the shaking and the flipping it upside down as well. I only told Matt three times that he just killed the baby. We also thought we had a crib picked out until we saw one while shopping for our bedroom set. We'll see what we do end up with.

Name of the week: Ingrid - even though Michele does not like it. Matt and I have a rule, we make it- we get to name it.
Cravings: Chips (specifically Sour Cream and Onion Pringles), Chocolate Milk
Pregnancy symptoms: More weight gain, water retention, back aches, dry eyes, and itchy skin.

On Thanksgiving Day...

a child starts crying
Cousin Ethan says to MJR: See, that's something that you have to look forward to.
Cousin Aaron doesn't understand and looks at MJR: Are you guys expecting?
MJR: Yes.
Cousin Ethan realizes that he's the reason the cat was "let out of the bag": Woahhh!
MJR later tells ALR how the cousins know now before Grandma does.
ALR hits him: That wasn't suppose to happen!
MJR: I didn't plan it to happen that way... it came out!

While telling Big Jason and Normal Sara
NS: We are going to go kayaking tomorrow. So the next time you guys come out, we can do that!
MJR sees opportunity: Well, we are going to need 2 big kayaks and one little one.
NS: That's fine, we have a 3 foot one that's a bit smaller that should work.
BJ: Did you find out if it's a boy or girl yet?
NS: Wait a minute, WHAT! What's going on here!!!
MJR and ALR chuckle.

**This post was post-dated and released at a later date for reasons determined by ALR/MJR