WE'RE PREGNANT!

Yeah, we know! We had the same reaction when we found out too!

What do you say, when your wife calls you while at work with a hint of hysteria in her voice to tell you that the pregnancy test (which you had no idea she had) just turned up positive? Well if you're like me, you tell her to take another one. When she calls you back and with more confidence in her voice tells you that test was positive as well...what do you say? Well if you're like me, you tell her to go to a Dr's office to get an official test done! Haha

That was how our day played out last Wednesday (Nov.7) after Michelle figured she was later then usual. It has completely surprised us, and taught us a valuable lesson.

About a month and a half ago, we had reached a conclusion to an ongiong battle of whether to have more children. We fasted and prayed specificially to know. Afterwards, we did not really have a strong feeling one way or another. So we decided to continue with our plan to sell all of our baby stuff by having a large 4-family Yard Sale with some friends and fellow church members. We did quite well during the sale, but some of the major items didn't sell (bassinet, car seat, etc.) so our neighbor knew some friends that wanted to buy them. The purchase dates kept getting pushed back for some reason (i.e. neighbor's friends wanted to wait until next paycheck) and then Wednesday November 7th happened. Needless to say, those items are no longer for sale! :)

Michelle has received a Priesthood blessing, and we are allowing Heavenly Father to have His hand in this. We know we can not control the situation, but will keep our faith and testimony in that Heavenly Father will do His will, and everything happens for a reason. This was not a planned pregnancy, so it was obviously meant to be. We are also hoping that this baby will be a boy (which I've been excited to have to carry on the Sherman name), since we didn't conceive by using some Chinese calendar or what phase the moon was in! Haha, you all know what I'm talking about!

We are not even exactly sure of the due date, because Michelle can't remember the date of her last period. So we are kind of going off an estimated guess, with a tentative due date of mid-July. Michelle has her first Dr. appointment on Tuesday, November 27th. I doubt they will be able to tell the size of the baby, but if they can, we might have a better due date. But all of Michelle's babies have been in the 90%+ percentile for height, so their educated guess may still be off.

I saw a friend's blog that had a little "baby due date" count down on it, so I'm excited to check more into it when we know the official day. That way all of you can keep track with us.

Michelle doesn't know this yet, but she will be laying around with headphones again on her tummy with Mozart blaring. We did that for the last 4 months or so with Jasmin. Since she came out so cute and brilliant, why not do it again with this baby? :)

I hope you are not bored with these posts, because it's kind of hard to attach pictures and visual aides while I'm at work. But I'll try to go back and update posts in the future.