Our big news...in case you missed the memo!

Hadley has some news to share with you:

 

 Did you catch that?  No?  Let's take a closer look:


Towards the end of August, I started feeling a bit more tired than usual.

Strange?  No...I have a 4 1/2-year-old and a 2-year-old.  Tired comes with the territory.  Like right now...I barely have the energy to type out this post.  But I'm committed now...I gotta see it through!

So I did what you do on the little stick and lo and behold, there was a cross instead of a minus!

As this is now our fourth pregnancy (and only two kiddos...you do the math), I was very hesitant to spread the word so early, but since the grandparents' birthdays are all so close together, it seemed like the opportune time to tell them.

First was Pappy and Nana (Pappy's birthday is August 30).  We made the shirt for Hadley to wear and our test was to see how long it took to register what it meant.  Nana's reaction is about 10 minutes after I put the shirt on Hadley.






Next was Grami's turn.  Her birthday was the very next week (Sept. 6), so we headed to her house for Labor Day/b-day fun.  Her reaction was a bit quicker:





Next was Grandma's (my mom) turn.  I should note here that, due to pregnancy brain, I thought it would be a great way to tell Daddy the day I found out by having J.J. walk over to him and give him the little stick.  Did it occur to me in that swift, 3-second decision that letting a 4-year-old know he's going to be a big brother and then expecting him not to tell anyone would be pretty tough?  Nope.  Didn't even cross my mind.

But the only person he really wanted to tell was his BFF Mia-Kate, so we weren't too worried.  And he did SO well!  He never said a word to Nana & Pappy until we told them.  He never uttered a peep to Grami & Grandpa Mike until they already knew.  He even kept it a secret from all his church and school buddies!  (Due to a doctor's appointment conflicting with his need to be picked up from school, he did get to tell Mia-Kate, because her mom already knew)

Then came Mom's birthday (Sept. 9).  We had spent almost the entire day with her...ate lunch w/ her, played outside in the backyard with her...with no hint of the news escaping his lips.  No sooner had I gone in to Hadley's room to get her up from her nap and put the shirt on her, did Johnny come home from work, walk by the back door and hear J.J. say to my mom, "Did you know Hadley's going to be a big sister?"

Two minutes.  The kid held it in for two weeks and those last two minutes he couldn't take it any longer.

Thus the lack of a surprise picture of my mom.

So there you have it!  We are expecting a new little Hughes sometime late in April.  The actual due date is April 28, but as I'll be having another c-section, the little one will make his or her debut the week before.

Will we find out what we're having?  YES!  We are not ones to wait (okay...I'M not one to wait...Johnny would be fine if we did).  We have the ultrasound on November 30 so I'll be sure and (try to remember to) post that little tidbit sometime that week.

No names picked out yet...we kind of used up all our good ideas with the first two!  :)  But you know we'll find something cute.

I personally like Sandrine.

Or James...but only if it's a girl.