2nd of April 2011 (17 weeks and 1 day)
Hey Little Nugget,
You know, you`re starting to get big for a nugget. You`re apparently 8 inches long…hmm you're getting pretty long. I don`t think I can hide you anymore to be honest. I could blame it on putting on a few more pounds but you see, the problem is that mommy is losing weight. I`ve lost over 10 pounds… BUT my stomach keeps getting bigger. So, people are starting to just stare at my belly. Specially people at church and people that we know. I don`t think you are that noticeable for the world yet. Otherwise people would let us sit in the metro in the morning when it`s really full and that mommy barely faints. On this note- if you are not pregnant and you see a pregnant women on the bus or subway don`t just stare at her stomach and look away. I understand the ‘I`m not sure you`re pregnant’ but I don`t get It when women who are obviously very very pregnant cannot get a seat on the bus. That frustrates me because I always gave up my seat for old people or pregnant women. Anyways!!! It`s been a while I didn`t write to you about…you. This week and last week was full of surprises.
As you may have noticed, you have met a new part of the family last week. Two Wednesdays ago (23 of march) we met Grandmaman for a coffee. I wasn`t sure at that point that I was going to let her know that daddy and I were expecting you. As the conversation went along I decided it was the right thing to do. After all, it`s very important for her to know as you will be part of her life and vice-versa. I find it`s pretty important for you to grow up with all of your family. You`re going to LOVE having a big family. We don`t have that much of a big family actually but it`s growing! So, I wasn`t sure how grandmaman was going to react. She didn`t know we were trying, she didn`t know anything about our trying to conceive journey so it was basically throwing the news right at her. Well, she is very happy and she sounded very excited! She thinks you`re a girl! Finally someone who thinks like me and your other grandma. It must be something with us women ;) She also said that If you were a boy we could take a look at some of the clothes that Daddy and your uncles had as babies. Cool! I didn`t tell her the amount of clothes we ALREADY got you without even knowing if you were a boy or a girl…but she`ll read it here anyways. I didn`t want to look too weird haha. So that`s how grandmaman learned that we were expecting you. It wasn`t planned that I would tell her that day, so I didn`t do anything special- I just spoke with my heart.
Obviously, if grandmaman knew, grandpapa had to also know! So I spoke about it with daddy and we figured that the best thing to do was to tell grandpapa on his birthday (30 of march). So, exactly one week later than grandmaman. We were thrilled to tell him. You know that feeling of being so excited that you wonder if you`ll be able to hold the secret until then? Well maybe you don`t, but one day you will. So, mommy prepared a cute card for grandpapa saying that we were expecting you and put it with the other card we were going to give him. To celebrate grandpapa`s birthday he invited us to go to a Lebanese restaurant. It was the first time we ever ate Lebanese and I think daddy was super happy to eat Lebanese again. I think we`ll have to get going on Lebanese recipes because their food is pretty good. It sort of reminds me of Portuguese food…the flavours have nothing in common but the way of eating (with bread and sharing the meals) is the same. It was pretty special and we totally have to go back but let`s get back to grandpapa here. He opened the card that said that we were expecting and he was happy. He didn`t even read the inside at first! I think it was a good birthday gift. Your uncles were also there and I think they are excited too but I mean, they are boys…they don’t show as much expression. What do you think? The supper went by very well and we were both happy that the rest of the family knew.
Daddy just finished talking with your great grandmaman and he just told her the good news. So, I think it`s pretty official that we are expecting you. I hope you realize how lucky you are for having a great grandmaman! Family is so precious. Never forget it.
I think that’s going to be all for now Little Nugget!
Swim carefully in there and I would like to add that I’m not a big fan of backpain, so try to drop that.
Daddy and mommy love you very much!
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