Telling Jason

This always seems to be the first exciting thing for expecting moms. How to tell the soon to be expecting dad.

I wanted to tell Jason in a special way. I wanted him to remember this forever. Not that he wouldn't remember becoming a dad, but finding out your life will never be the same after this news, I wanted it to be special.

Many ideas ran through my head. Making dinner and presenting "dessert" as the positive stick. Kinda sounded gross though. Then, I thought about getting baby clothes and putting them in the washer and when we were getting ready to go to bed that night, I'd ask him to switch the "clothes" over. I didn't want to buy too many clothes of the wrong sex. I also thought about filling the spare/baby room closet with diapers over the next few weeks, but who knows if he would pay that much attention to that closet.

I went with getting him a little present.

Before I say more about the present, let me tell you how our week had been. Monday, we had a little birthday celebration for Jason. We were in Denver for his birthday so we didn't get to celebrate with our other friends and family. Monday afternoon, Jason was helping tidy up the house and was taking our suitcases out to the garage when he heard lots of little boys playing outside the garage. He opened the garage door to find 4 little neighbor boys. 3 from down the street who attend our church and one from the opposite direction. Jason being the wonderful patient guy he is explained that they need to ask permission before getting into the Jeep.

After 20 minutes of Jason "putting away the suitcases", I went out to the garage to see what the issue was. I was filled in on the current situation. After Jason had said goodbye and we thought the kids would resort to one of their houses, Jason finds them getting into OUR backyard. He explains again that they need to ask permission to go in our backyard. They then ride their scooters through our front yard, start turning on the water, coming in and out of the house like they own the place. I was running out of patience. Jason went out and explained to the boys that they needed to go home since it was getting late and he needed to help me with other chores before his little party.

After what we thought was the end, I hear the water turn and I am out the door before Jason can get there. I did not explain. I let them know that "they need to listen to our rules when they are at our house. We have been very nice to them and if they want us to continue being nice, they need to listen to us. Otherwise, they will not be allowed to come over, ever. Do you understand?" That was the end of that.

Jason's present
I went to Babies R Us and found two cute little outfits. One in boy colors that said "Daddy's best friend" and a little girl one that said, "Daddy adores me." I want to teach the kids sign language for many reasons, Jason too, so I then went to Borders and got The Everything Book on Baby Sign Language. I found a little organization box, or something like that, put the book in, put the outfits in just right so when he opened the box he would see what they said, and then I put the positive pregnancy test on top. (Don't worry, I didn't pee all over the stick and I'm gonna wash the clothes before the munchkin wears it.) I set the box with a little gold bow on top of the coffee table just before Jason arrived home.

He walked in, gave me a hug and a kiss. And as we were hugging I casually told him that a little person dropped that box off for him while he was gone. He looked perplexed and I think he thought tons of different things, mainly, what have those little boys down the street gotten me?!

When he opened it, he still seemed a little perplexed. So, I told him, "Ya, they said they'd be back in 9 months." And then, there it was.

Jason: Are you serious?
Jess: yes.
Jason: For real?
Jess: Yes, Jason. It's for real.

I won't go into how gushy it was, but I loved watching his reaction. I wanted to surprise our families, but I had gone to see Jenny earlier that day, and I can't be around her more than 5 minutes without sharing whatever juicy gossip I have. So, I told Jason to call her since he was dying to share it with someone. Thank you Jenny. You truly are an amazing sister.