The cat is out of the bag!

[wrenb]

Well first the bad news. Drew and I won't be able to attend our 10 year reunion at Harvey Mudd this spring. I'm pretty bummed since we missed the 5th due to finances. I was going to make it work come hell or high water.

As it turns out, we're pretty happy about our reason for not attending. We have a baby due on reunion weekend! While I don't actually expect the little pea dude to appear on May 9, 2009, they'll be here sometime around then.

We've been hoping for a baby for 3 1/2 years so this is amazing news for us. This will be the first grandchild on either side although there are already little 2nd cousins running around (Drew's cousins' kids).

I do have a pregnancy filter since I had a hard time keeping my mouth shut. :) So if you'd like to hear all about it, let me know and I'll add you to the filter.
ETA: If this is not the first you've heard about my pregnancy on LJ, you're already on my filter.

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I am, of course, all about such filters :).

[wwilliam47.livejournal.com]

As I told Drew earlier, congratulations.

[ms-1516.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And yes please on the filter :)

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Let me get into the 2nd trimester and then I can think about socializing in the evenings.

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

That cookout was 2 days after I got a positive result on a home pregnancy test.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Heh. I called in sick to work one day in the first trimester because I woke up, walked to the couch, and realized that was all the moving I had the energy to do for the next three hours. (Three hours later, I got up and took a shower.) That was my main symptom, really -- unreal fatigue.

[stinky1109.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And I'd like to be in the filter, please. :)

[nursekel.livejournal.com]

i absolutely want to hear all about it !!!

congrats :)

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Ooops, apologies for my previous comment...I'm such a ding-bat sometimes!

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

No worries. It can be so easy to mix people up on LJ.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to hear all about it!

sorry that was me

[dmyersta.livejournal.com]

I thought I was logged in. :D

[gflower.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Feel free to add me to the filter if you feel comfortable doing so.

[tla]

Congratulations, and yes please!

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! We would love to both be on the filter (I'm speaking for Steuard temporarily since he's taking a break from LJ to get work done, but he'll want to be on it when he returns from hiding) :-)

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Oh goodie! Mom asked after you when she was out here last. Do you mind if I call her and tell her so she can have a fit of vicarious grandmotherliness? She'll be as delighted as I am :).

And yes, I'd like to be on the filter.

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

Put me on the filter. I won't have much to add, but I'll be glad to listen.

And - my birthday is May 8th. You know your child will be even cooler if he/she manages to share a birthday with me :)

[eiramanit.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Please add me to your filter! :)

[onanothertopic.livejournal.com]

YOU WENT TO HARVEY MUDD! No way! I knew I liked you. Add me to the filter! I was so excited about HMC that I hit comment and started typing, only to ask myself, "wait, PREGNANCY filter?" Even more exciting.

[muffinmich.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!!

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

I did! I didn't graduate (I did that at Scripps, across the street) but I lived at Mudd all four years. And I'll be happy to add you to the filter. Hey -- no worries about finding a mikveh for a while, right? :)

[sandi-k.livejournal.com]

I'm in! Congrats!

[kuddliphish.livejournal.com]

So exciting! Congratulations! I would love to be on the filter.

[cellio]

Congrats!

[jon-leonard.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And please add me to the filter if I'm not on it. Not that I have much in the way of useful things to add about pregnancy, but I'm still interested.

[beth_leonard]

Yay!!! Please add me too! It helps to have other people who care about how much you need to sleep to talk to. I bored Jon a bit when I was first pregnant, but luckily my good friend was pregnant with her first at the same time. The boys were due 17 days apart, but born 4 days apart.
--Beth

[jminnis.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. :)

[junipertree.livejournal.com]

congratulations!!!!! I am so happy for you...and I'd love to be on the filter :)

[muffinmich.livejournal.com]

I realize I'm really late, but I wanted to wish you congratulations!!

And I would love to be on your filter, if you wish to add me.

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much Michelle. It means a lot coming from you who've struggled so much. You're on the filter. If all the pregnancy talk gets to bothering you, just let me know and I'll slide you back off the filter, no hard feelings.

[muffinmich.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being so understanding. I would not ask if I wasn't ready for it, but I appreciate your offer.

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been there, done that. Thankfully I sold the t-shirt on ebay. :) But seriously, my cousin announced her pregnancy this summer and my first reaction was "Damn it! Why her and not me?!".

[muffinmich.livejournal.com]

Haha. I would never say that. Ahem :) (substitute summer for fall and that's pretty much what happened ;)