Well, tonight we had a nice dinner with my brother in law and sister in law. WHF had called them and asked if they wanted to go out since we hadn't seen them in a while. They said sure, so we went to Joe's Crab Shack so they could use the gift certificate that we gave them for the wedding.
We get there and things are a little awkward at first...much as it always is when you see someone that you haven't seen in a while. Finally, the conversation starts to warm up and things are getting a lot friendlier.
We start chatting and having a great time. I hear Andy say something to Emily about there are things that aren't seafood on the menu and think...oh man...we gave them a gift certificate to a seafood place and she hates seafood. I feel stupid!
Then we start chatting some more and WHF thinks that Emily is closer in age to me. I say no, she's only 20...and ask her when her 21st birthday is b/c I know it's in the month of April. She tells me the date and WHF asks what she's going to be doing. I jokingly said something like having a big drunken party and she and Andy look at each other and say no. All the sudden, I know something's up. That's when they tell us the news...she's pregnant!
At first I don't believe them. Andy kinda said it in a joking manner, but then she started talking and saying how she had worn the sweater that she was wearing b/c she was starting to show. At first I'm in kind of a state of disbelief. I mean...I can't believe it. Then she whips out a sonogram pic and it starts feeling more and more real. Wow...there's going to be a baby in this family!
She was pregnant not more than a month after they got married (they were married in early January), that she's 9 weeks along and the baby is due on October 31st...Halloween. She really doesn't want to have the kid on Halloween. The weird thing is though that this year, there's going to be a baby for all the holidays. So at Thanksgiving (should we have Thanksgiving this year) there will be a brand new baby and at Christmas, there will be a baby. It's just so weird to think about. And I will have a baby to buy presents for now. That's such a weird concept to me. It's so foreign. I haven't had kids ever to buy for in my family.
I'm going to be an aunt for the first time ever in my life and while I know that they are so incredibly young and haven't even been married for like 2 months yet, I'm still excited b/c I will have this new baby in my life and I will get to spoil it and then send it merrily on it's way back to mama.
And the good news, I think the whole fact that she's having the baby makes me feel a lot less anxious to have one. It made me realize that I still have plenty of time and that I definitely don't want to rush things. It also helped to cure that baby itch I've been feeling.
Although part of me is still a bit sad. I mean, I know it's not a competition...and I definitely know I am not ready to have kids...but WHF and I are the older of the two. And we're both the older children and we both are the oldest of all of our cousins. But I don't know...it just feels a bit weird that they beat us to the punch. I mean, now our baby will never get to be the oldest cousin...which I always held as kind of an honor with me. No, now our baby will just be mixed in there with any of the other kids that they end up deciding to have. (And should we ever decide to have more than one...which right now, is very doubtful.) And like I said, I know that in no way is this a competition, but I do, in a way, feel a bit disappointed that we weren't first.
Still, I'm so excited about getting to be Aunt Nibbles for the first time ever and you can bet that little one will be spoiled!
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Congrats!! That is so exciting!
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