Expectations

(Posted retroactively, since at the time we found out, we weren't quite ready to tell the world yet...)

First, the big news... *ahem*...

We’re
PREGNANT!

We confirmed it at the doctor’s office today, after a positive home pregnancy test result this morning. We’re excited, overjoyed, and terrified all at the same time — and it hasn’t even entirely sunk in yet! We’ve been trying for more than a year now, so we’re at the same time amazed that it took this long to get here and amazed that it finally happened.

Heather is technically a month pregnant (!) already, which makes our expected due date December 29 — looks like we’ll be having a winter baby, though who can tell at this point if it’ll be 2010 or 2011 when baby arrives! Either way, I think that pretty much decides our Christmas plans for us... :-)

We want to do something big to celebrate, but we haven’t been able to yet because Heather’s pretty well out of commission due to a bad case of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. It’s causing her a lot of pain, shortness of breath, and loss of appetite, so even just going out to dinner tonight was out of the question. We’ll celebrate once Heather's feeling better, which hopefully will be really soon.

I really want to do a whole photo series tracking the pregnancy, a la Pacing the Panic Room, but Heather's not feeling well enough to be a photo subject at the moment, and I've still got some more learning to do with my fancy camera before I'm a master photographer (ha!). We've got a decent amount of time for that still — the Panic Room series started at around week 16, and I guess there’s not really much to show before then anyways.

One thing is absolutely certain — there are exciting times ahead for us!!!