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first, and from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU! thank you for the outpouring of love and excitement that you’ve shared with my family the past couple of days.

i can’t even tell you how wonderful i think you all are. thank you for your good wishes, for your joy.

so this picture clearly has nothing to do with a baby,

but it demonstrates all the waiting the girls are going to have to do over the coming months.

b/c they want a baby NOW! they try to talk to “him” (as harper says?!?!?!?) through my belly button. and i keep telling them how little the baby is, and how long we have to wait…but you try explaining that concept to them.

it’s verrrry early days yet.

but i couldn’t keep my mouth shut for a few reasons.

a. i’m RIDICULOUSLY tired. i keep trying to sneak upstairs and hide in bed, and then one of the girls finds me and that dream is shattered. no rest this pregnancy, i tell you!

b. i am already having creativity issues. with my last pregnancy, i HATED scrapbooking with the wrath of a million suns. hated it. the smell of my craft room made me dry heave. i am praying that that isn’t the case this time, but i am already NOT feeling creative. that pertains to blogging, and y’all would have figured it out way soon.

as a matter of fact, i’ve alread gotten emails, FB comments the past week (MONTHS!!) asking if i was pregnant. and i kept saying no, but i guess the power of suggestion finally worked. HEE!

c. i was inspired by my friend April to go ahead and share that i was pregnant. April (HALLELUJAH!!) is pregnant after several rounds of IVF. she has been so open and transparent about the entire thing, and i’ve been so inspired and touched by her honesty. it’s in my nature to share, so i just went ahead and told everyone.

d. is it bad that i knew everyone would know here as *soon* as i turned down a glass of wine? what? it’s just not in my nature. HA!!

so here we are. i’m suspecting i’m due in december. and we are thrilled and terrified all at once. isn’t it funny how it works like that?

jimmy, especially, can’t wipe the grin off of his face:

he’s positively giddy. if it was up to james carr howell, we’d have as many kids as the Duggars.

*shudder*.

and harper? she’s in heaven:

we told her we had some big news to tell her.

she’s been so worried about why i’m so tired. why i keep “wanting to BARF!!” her words, not mine.

she said “I THINK I KNOW THE BIG NEWS!!”

and jimmy asked her what she thought

and she said “THERES A BABY BRUDDER COMING TODAY!!!”

and we said not today and told her we had to wait but that yes, there was a baby coming.

and she said “OH, dat’s the big news?? (insert sad,deflated look)

and j told her that there was a baby in my tummy right NOW!
and she said

“OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this IS REALLY GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!”

and then she jumped up and down and kept trying to pull up my shirt. and then we let her call our parents to tell them. it went something like this.

“BB? i have some WONDERFUL news you won’t bewieve!!! I”M HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!”

i mean really, it makes me tear up just thinking of it. her age is so fun for her to experience this. i just know i’m going to have so many good stories. HA!

and sadie? not really interested. she just keeps pointing at me and yelling “BIG BELLY!!” (uh, thanks, that ain’t baby you’re seeing, sadie) and also “MY BABYYYYYYYYY!” in kind of a psycho way that frightens me a bit.

so that about covers it. and man, i am TIRED. must.sleep. i can’t even tell you how long it’s taken me to write this post b/c it’s sad. teeheee!

one more thing (well technically three).

i wanted to share my sneaks for the May Studio Calico kit, Granny’s Cupboard.

i got the main kit, linens & lace, trinkets, and more add-on patterned paper.

i’ve done four layouts, and I’d love to do more, but not sure if i will. Maybe I will have a burst of energy!!

Trinkets