Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time: 5:45am
When the alarm went off, I opened my eyes, saddened. For the second night, Sarah hadn’t slept in the bed with me. With a sigh, I swung my legs off the bed and walked downstairs. Sarah slept soundly on the couch. I took a deep breath, continued my morning routine, and left for work an hour later.
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time: 7:30am (approximate)
“Hello?”
Sarah’s voice answered through my phone’s speaker, “Hi.”
“Why’d you sleep downstairs again?”
I listened as Sarah explained. After some discussion, we both confirmed that we were still in love with one another, exchanged goodbyes, and disconnected the call.
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time: 10:30am (approximate)
My phone rang three hours later. Sarah’s picture flashed onto the screen. I pressed the green button and waited for the tone in my headset to signal that the call was connected.
“Hi, honey,” she said.
“Hi, what’s up?”
“Well,” she started. I listened as she explained.
“How long?”
“A week,” she said.
Recalling her reasons for sleeping downstairs the night before, I replied, “Well, that would explain why you threw up last night.”
“Yeah, and why I felt like a furnace the night before that. So I was thinking about buying a pregnancy test when I go to the store today.”
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time: 4:00pm (approximate)
She took the stick into the bathroom, while Tyler helped me in the kitchen with dinner; we were preparing corn on the cob and some meat for the grill. The instructions for the pregnancy test clearly stated to wait three minutes for a result. When Sarah returned from the bathroom, she set the timer on the microwave to three minutes and pressed the “Start” button. Over the course of the next 180 seconds, we caught each other sneaking into the bathroom to look for the blue line. We were simultaneously giddy and anxious for the results.
Ten minutes later, Sarah caught me sneaking into the bathroom again to look for the blue line we still had yet to see.
Barely loud enough for me to hear in the other room, Sarah said, “The instructions said not to trust it after fifteen minutes.”
I looked at the blank window on the stick for just a moment longer. I lowered my head, disappointed, then walked back to Sarah in the kitchen. My eyes flicked to the box for the pregnancy test. I picked it up and read the front of it.
“99.9% effective,” I mumbled, reading the box. Just about as accurate at detecting a pregnancy as a condom, birth control pill, or IUD is at preventing one. Sarah had her IUD removed two months ago, in the hopes of us adding one more to our family. We timed and planned it so that we wouldn’t have another summer baby. As much as we love, cherish, and adore Tyler, Sarah was miserable in the summer heat of her ninth month of pregnancy. You always hear of people that take pregnancy tests, scared of possibly getting a positive result, because the condom broke, or she forgot her pill “just that one time,” or from pure foolishness. We planned this; we wanted a positive result. A little more hopefully, I continued, “Maybe we’re the 0.1%.”
“Yeah, maybe. Even the test line didn’t turn blue.”
We then concoted myriad reasons we didn’t get a positive result, from the fact that she probably should have taken the test with her fist pee of the day, to maybe she held the stick crooked.
We decided to try the second test in the morning.
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time: 7:00pm (approximate)
“I need to pee.”
It had only been a few hours, but I couldn’t resist. I told her to do it. So what if it was negative again? I’d just go buy another test for the morning. Damnit, I’ll just keep buying them until it gives us the answer we want!
Taking a deep breath, I tried to calm myself. I was too hopeful for a positive, and too worried about a negative. I took another deep breath as the bathroom door opened.
“Three minutes, my ass! It lit blue in three SECONDS!”
We high-fived and hugged and kissed each other.
Sarah asked, “Tyler, do you want to be a big brother?”
He answered without hesitation, “Yeah! Bruhver.”
We are overjoyed to announce that we are expecting our second child on, or around, February 15, 2011. As of the posting of this entry, we are nine weeks along.
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Congratulations to the entire Irrational clan and excellent planning to not being pregnant during the summer. I had a baby at the end of July while living in South Louisiana. I spent the last 2 months on the couch with the air cranked and a fan blowing on me. And because I’m not as smart as Sarah, I had my second baby at the end of August!
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I can’t wait to not be a FURNACE anymore! 2.5 weeks to go??? Couldn’t be happier for you three and congrats! At least it is not on a major holiday!
So excited for you guys! What awesome news… and great way of telling everyone
Congratulations!!! That’s incredible news! And a Superbowl/Valentine’s Day baby could be quite fun. Congrats again!
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Heck yeah!!
Congrats Bud that is GREAT NEWS!!
Yea! I am so excited! Can’t wait!
congratulations! i am so happy for you guys! and i can’t wait to read all about him or her!
GOD we can finally talk about it now?!?!?!
Facebook here i come!!!
Congratulations!! Karla Raye Jr. here we come!!
So exciting…I love the way you told this story. It will be so great for your daughter/son to read one day!!!
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Congrats
Congratulations you two!!!! I am so happy for your family.
Congratulations! We are expecting again too and I’m due Feb. 13. It will be fun to compare notes with you and your wife.
We asked our son if he wanted to be a big brother too. His reply after much deliberation . . . ‘uuuuummmm, no.”
Yikes!
YAY! I can’t wait for the “dad of two” posts…it gets exponentially more interesting!
I am so happy for you guys!! Can’t wait to tell Uncle Chris when he gets home that he is now gonna DOUBLE his great uncle quotient!! So glad to hear it! <3 you guys!!
Wow! Congrats Man. Such great news. Tyler will be an awesome big brother.
Look forward to reading all about it.
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I go away from blogs for two weeks and all the news happens!
COngrats!
And always always always wait until the next morning for that first pee!!
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CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you all so much for the good wishes. I honestly can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am about this. Your words also mean the world to me, and are one of my main motivators to keep the posts coming.
Ah, congratulations.
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Congratulations!! Awesome news for you and the expanding fam. I hope that your wife is feeling well.
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Congrats!! I can’t wait to meet your new addition…you know after (s)he cooks in there the appropriate amount of time.
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Congrats!
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OMG, I can only blame this on the fact that I was preparing for surgery and may have just marked a lot of things “READ” in my reader, but I had no idea about the pregnancy. I am so excited for you and sarah. Congrats. Can’t wait to follow along on the journey. Will you be finding out what it is?
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