So I had a mishap with a onesie.
We got this little thing here and it's a little yellow thing, no bigger than a wash cloth. It's cute and I see it has two little buttons around the neck of it.
The more I look at it the more I think..."Man that's going to be a tight fit".
I start to get a little worried about it, thinking "Man you really have to kinda shove the baby into this thing pretty hard here. That's not a very big opening!" as I point at the two little buttons around the neck.
I said to Brittany, "This is going to be tough to fit the baby in here" as I point at the two little buttons around the neck. To which Brittany replies through her laughing "Those buttons are just to get the baby's head through the neck". She then points out to me that there are more buttons at the bottom of the onesie that you open up and slide the thing on over them like a shirt.
How did I know?
But I laughed thinking about the visual of me trying to fold the baby's body up to make it fit through that tiny neck hole.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Where did that come from?
So everyone is excited about that little girl on the way.
It had been like 15 or 16 years since there was a baby in the Polly family. Harper will make #3 in 3 years....all girls. For the Wilburn side of my family I was the last baby, thats 28 years ago. And my Mother was the last girl in the family that's a number of years that I am not allowed to say ago, I got your back mom!
Brittany and I have started CLEANING UP on hand me downs from these little girls in our family. Everyone has been so great and it is much appreciated!!!!!!
Every few days someone will deliver a box or bag of hand me downs, and the other day Brittany and I were going through a bag. It's a mixed bag of all various ages and sizes. There is SO MUCH PINK!!!!
Here is where it get's wierd. As we are going through the bag we would pick up an item look at the age on it and workout in our heads what time of year that would be. Would this little dress be too cold at this time of year and so on. As we are working the date out on one item that is a 12 month piece we thought it might be too cold for it and I said "It's okay we can put a little pair of tights under it."
WHAT!!! What did I just say? Did I really just put together an outfit? I didn't know that word's like this were in my vocabulary.
And I didn't stop there....Where are the booties? What did you do with those bloomers? That's a cute onesie?
What's happening to me!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
It had been like 15 or 16 years since there was a baby in the Polly family. Harper will make #3 in 3 years....all girls. For the Wilburn side of my family I was the last baby, thats 28 years ago. And my Mother was the last girl in the family that's a number of years that I am not allowed to say ago, I got your back mom!
Brittany and I have started CLEANING UP on hand me downs from these little girls in our family. Everyone has been so great and it is much appreciated!!!!!!
Every few days someone will deliver a box or bag of hand me downs, and the other day Brittany and I were going through a bag. It's a mixed bag of all various ages and sizes. There is SO MUCH PINK!!!!
Here is where it get's wierd. As we are going through the bag we would pick up an item look at the age on it and workout in our heads what time of year that would be. Would this little dress be too cold at this time of year and so on. As we are working the date out on one item that is a 12 month piece we thought it might be too cold for it and I said "It's okay we can put a little pair of tights under it."
WHAT!!! What did I just say? Did I really just put together an outfit? I didn't know that word's like this were in my vocabulary.
And I didn't stop there....Where are the booties? What did you do with those bloomers? That's a cute onesie?
What's happening to me!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
What is it????
Whelp!!!!
So it's been a while since I posted. Sorry, I've been busy. Last Friday Brittany and I had our BIG ultrasound and got floored. Please understand that Brittany and I were not pulling one way or the other, I mean let's be honest I think every man has a portion of him deep down inside that wants a boy. I know it's a worn out expression, but all we really cared about was that the baby was healthy and growing.
As Brittany and I got to the hospital my stomach was a wreck, I was waaaayyyyyy to excited.
As we got into the ultrasound room....things got real....real fast! Up to this point I had seen pictures of the baby, I had heard the baby's heartbeat. Understand that those are incredible days, when you hear that heartbeat is amazing. But last Friday, I saw my child's face, I saw it's arms, legs, nose, knees and elbows. I saw those tiny little arms and legs moving around, I was thrilled!
The ultrasound tech asked us if we wanted to know the sex of the baby. Is she for real? Does anyone ever say no to that question?
Brittany and I have almost no experience with children, what experience we do have is with boys. I think because of this we just assumed that we would have a boy. Right about this time the tech says "Here is a really good picture", see this and that and that.....yeah, yeah, yeah.....It's a GIRL!!!!!
All Brittany could say was "WHAT, are you sure?" Then she starts to cry, I almost cried with her.
WE WERE THRILLED!!!!
Never saw it coming, but now it feels right.
So in just a few short months...I will be very very proud to present Harper Grey Polly!
So it's been a while since I posted. Sorry, I've been busy. Last Friday Brittany and I had our BIG ultrasound and got floored. Please understand that Brittany and I were not pulling one way or the other, I mean let's be honest I think every man has a portion of him deep down inside that wants a boy. I know it's a worn out expression, but all we really cared about was that the baby was healthy and growing.
As Brittany and I got to the hospital my stomach was a wreck, I was waaaayyyyyy to excited.
As we got into the ultrasound room....things got real....real fast! Up to this point I had seen pictures of the baby, I had heard the baby's heartbeat. Understand that those are incredible days, when you hear that heartbeat is amazing. But last Friday, I saw my child's face, I saw it's arms, legs, nose, knees and elbows. I saw those tiny little arms and legs moving around, I was thrilled!
The ultrasound tech asked us if we wanted to know the sex of the baby. Is she for real? Does anyone ever say no to that question?
Brittany and I have almost no experience with children, what experience we do have is with boys. I think because of this we just assumed that we would have a boy. Right about this time the tech says "Here is a really good picture", see this and that and that.....yeah, yeah, yeah.....It's a GIRL!!!!!
All Brittany could say was "WHAT, are you sure?" Then she starts to cry, I almost cried with her.
WE WERE THRILLED!!!!
Never saw it coming, but now it feels right.
So in just a few short months...I will be very very proud to present Harper Grey Polly!
Friday, January 22, 2010
So going into the doctors office Brittany and I thought that no matter what happened we would keep it to ourselves for the next few weeks at least. As we left the doctors office we both knew that their was no way possible that we kept this from anyone. Since Brittany's parents live about 2 blocks away from us and they were both home we decided to tell them first. Brittany had a small stack of pictures to show them and had put a picutre of our positive pregnancy test in the mix. It had to be pretty obvious why we were at their house that early on a Monday afternoon. As they looked through the pictures they came to the picture of the test and Brittany's mom somehow thought that the test showed "Not-Pregnant". To which Brittany and I thought, "Why would we show you a picture of a negative pregnancy test?", just seems kinda cruel. At any rate they were exicted and immediately began to discuss what their grandparent names would be.
My parents were a bit of a moving target. It happened to be my Dad's birthday and we thought that it was perfect to tell them on his birthday. As we got to their house, Dad was there but Mom had an eye doctor appointment so she was running late. Well dad had to go to a spelling bee, so he needed to leave and mom did not get home in time. We had to sit on our secret for another day and it almost killed me. At any rate when we did get to tell them they were not together. We saw my Mom first, I simply handed her a card with the ultrasound picture in it. Like an idiot, I did not make her sit down. I thought she was going to pass out. I could not let my Mom know and not Dad the same night. So off to Elkton School we went. Mom went in and got Dad out of the spelling bee. As he came into his office I just handed him the ultrasound picture and told him " He was going to be a Gramps".
Brittany and I are very blessed to have such loving families. We have since told just about everyone else. Our brothers and their wives were very excited and it makes everything alot of fun for us. Brittany and I also have some really awesome friends that were excited to hear our news. Our child is going to have alot of "Aunts and Uncles", and we think that is great.
My parents were a bit of a moving target. It happened to be my Dad's birthday and we thought that it was perfect to tell them on his birthday. As we got to their house, Dad was there but Mom had an eye doctor appointment so she was running late. Well dad had to go to a spelling bee, so he needed to leave and mom did not get home in time. We had to sit on our secret for another day and it almost killed me. At any rate when we did get to tell them they were not together. We saw my Mom first, I simply handed her a card with the ultrasound picture in it. Like an idiot, I did not make her sit down. I thought she was going to pass out. I could not let my Mom know and not Dad the same night. So off to Elkton School we went. Mom went in and got Dad out of the spelling bee. As he came into his office I just handed him the ultrasound picture and told him " He was going to be a Gramps".
Brittany and I are very blessed to have such loving families. We have since told just about everyone else. Our brothers and their wives were very excited and it makes everything alot of fun for us. Brittany and I also have some really awesome friends that were excited to hear our news. Our child is going to have alot of "Aunts and Uncles", and we think that is great.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
First Doctor Visit.
So that next Monday Brittany calls to make an appointment with a new doctor here in town. We had not allowed ourselves to talk to anyone about this until we had confirmed our results with a doctor. Keeping count? That will now be the 5th pregnancy test that Brittany had taken, that's right Sunday afternoon I made her take another one. So while I was driving home from work to go to the visit with Brittany, my mind just kept racing about all the things about having a baby that I didn't know. I was listening to this CD that Brittany had made of all of these real mellow music, couple that with the racing mind and it's safe to say that I was a wreck. We met at home and were about to leave, when I thought about the fact that we could not leave my car in the driveway because both my Grandmother and Mother go by our house almost every afternoon and if they saw my car they would call and ask why I was at home. So we both drove over to the doctors office. As we walk in, I'm still a nervous wreck and as most of you know, when I get nervous I start making jokes....bad jokes! Brittany was very gracious with me, because I had to have been very annoying with all the joking.
As Brittany started filling out the mountain of paperwork, I still could not get my head wrapped around why we were here. I kept trying to answer the questions on the forms for her. Any family history of asthma? Diabetes? Allergies? "Yes, Yes, Yes", I said.
It then occured to me that the doctors office did not care if MY family had any history with these maladies, they only cared about the patient and the tiny embryo inside her.
It became clear to me at that point what my job was in this whole thing. My job here is support Brittany and do everything I can to protect her.
Knowing this did not stop the jokes.....the bad jokes!
As we went back into the exam room, they had more health questions. And explained to us what would happen today. Brittany and I went into the first visit really just expecting them to do another pregnancy test. Since we knew so early we did not expect the full exam....but the full exam we got! Let me tell you guys, you have not experienced anything until you have been present as your wife got a complete physical exam....TRUST ME!
As the exam ended the doctor turned and told us that she always does an ultrasound on the first visit. I was very excited to hear this, however she did warn us that it may be too early to really see anything.
As the ultrasound began something incredible happened. Amid all the awkwardness and bad jokes on a tiny black and white TV screen... my life changed.
As the image moved on the screen, there it was a tiny black speck about the size of a bean (hence our blog name). It was really nothing and everything at the same time, I was floored. More bad jokes followed!
As Brittany got dressed and I sat in the room, the only thing I could think to do was the thank God for trusting us with this gift.
It was weird walking out of the office, I already felt different. I could already feel the responsibility building, but was not worried about it at all. I was way too excited to worry.
Next up was the tell the family.....
As Brittany started filling out the mountain of paperwork, I still could not get my head wrapped around why we were here. I kept trying to answer the questions on the forms for her. Any family history of asthma? Diabetes? Allergies? "Yes, Yes, Yes", I said.
It then occured to me that the doctors office did not care if MY family had any history with these maladies, they only cared about the patient and the tiny embryo inside her.
It became clear to me at that point what my job was in this whole thing. My job here is support Brittany and do everything I can to protect her.
Knowing this did not stop the jokes.....the bad jokes!
As we went back into the exam room, they had more health questions. And explained to us what would happen today. Brittany and I went into the first visit really just expecting them to do another pregnancy test. Since we knew so early we did not expect the full exam....but the full exam we got! Let me tell you guys, you have not experienced anything until you have been present as your wife got a complete physical exam....TRUST ME!
As the exam ended the doctor turned and told us that she always does an ultrasound on the first visit. I was very excited to hear this, however she did warn us that it may be too early to really see anything.
As the ultrasound began something incredible happened. Amid all the awkwardness and bad jokes on a tiny black and white TV screen... my life changed.
As the image moved on the screen, there it was a tiny black speck about the size of a bean (hence our blog name). It was really nothing and everything at the same time, I was floored. More bad jokes followed!
As Brittany got dressed and I sat in the room, the only thing I could think to do was the thank God for trusting us with this gift.
It was weird walking out of the office, I already felt different. I could already feel the responsibility building, but was not worried about it at all. I was way too excited to worry.
Next up was the tell the family.....
PREGNANT!!!!
Welcome to the first post on our new blog. We created this so that everyone could keep informed on the progress that both Brittany and our little bean make.
Brittany and I made the decision about 6 months ago that we would stop take any steps to prevent a pregnancy. We were not trying, I mean we were if you get what I'm saying (wink), but not really. We were not watching calendars or anything like that. We had really put it into God's hands as to when it would happen.
January 8th, was a Friday and Brittany and I had both had a pretty long week so we came home looking forward to just staying in that night and relaxing. I potentially took relaxing to a whole other level when I went to bed around 9:00, Brittany stayed up. Brittany had said she did not feel very good, but did not mention to me that she was over a week late. So around midnight she decided on a whim to take a pregnancy test.
Now let's be very clear about something, my wife loves a surprise and loves to plan and execute special moments for us. We still celebrate our very own valentines day, November 21st by the way. So I fully expected that when she knew she was pregnant we would have to make an event out of it. I expected to come home one day to a dinner made of a pureed steak, baby carrots and drinking sweet tea out of a baby bottle while being forced to wear a "Bun in the oven" t-shirt. Let me tell you how it really went down.
9:30-Will in bed sound asleep
10:30-Sleeping good
11:30- Dead to the world
12:00- Brittany comes in the room and says "Will, I need to turn the light on." For about 5 seconds I was kinda mad. I didn't say anything, but I was wondering what could possibly be so important that you had to wake me up. She then says " I took a pregnancy test" to which I responed in a very groggy voice "Ok"...."And". Then she just drops the bomb on me "It came back positive", like it was no big deal! Keep in mind I'm trying with everything I've got to determine if this is real or a dream still and the only thing I can get out of my mouth is "What do we do?". Brittany says "Well, I guess we make an appointment with a doctor", all I had to say to this was, "Take another test". Alas that was the last test we had at home.
12:30- Trip to WalMart for more test, the most expensive one they had, nothing is too good for my peace of mind.
1:00- Brittany in bathroom. The box says the test should take around 3 minutes. Our test takes all of about 30 seconds to come back positive.
1:15- I make Brittany take another test. How am I supposed to trust 2 pregnancy test??? We need this thing in triplicate. Again, takes about 30 seconds to tell us we it's positive.
4:30- I'm still sitting there trying to grasp what had just happened?
Brittany and I made the decision about 6 months ago that we would stop take any steps to prevent a pregnancy. We were not trying, I mean we were if you get what I'm saying (wink), but not really. We were not watching calendars or anything like that. We had really put it into God's hands as to when it would happen.
January 8th, was a Friday and Brittany and I had both had a pretty long week so we came home looking forward to just staying in that night and relaxing. I potentially took relaxing to a whole other level when I went to bed around 9:00, Brittany stayed up. Brittany had said she did not feel very good, but did not mention to me that she was over a week late. So around midnight she decided on a whim to take a pregnancy test.
Now let's be very clear about something, my wife loves a surprise and loves to plan and execute special moments for us. We still celebrate our very own valentines day, November 21st by the way. So I fully expected that when she knew she was pregnant we would have to make an event out of it. I expected to come home one day to a dinner made of a pureed steak, baby carrots and drinking sweet tea out of a baby bottle while being forced to wear a "Bun in the oven" t-shirt. Let me tell you how it really went down.
9:30-Will in bed sound asleep
10:30-Sleeping good
11:30- Dead to the world
12:00- Brittany comes in the room and says "Will, I need to turn the light on." For about 5 seconds I was kinda mad. I didn't say anything, but I was wondering what could possibly be so important that you had to wake me up. She then says " I took a pregnancy test" to which I responed in a very groggy voice "Ok"...."And". Then she just drops the bomb on me "It came back positive", like it was no big deal! Keep in mind I'm trying with everything I've got to determine if this is real or a dream still and the only thing I can get out of my mouth is "What do we do?". Brittany says "Well, I guess we make an appointment with a doctor", all I had to say to this was, "Take another test". Alas that was the last test we had at home.
12:30- Trip to WalMart for more test, the most expensive one they had, nothing is too good for my peace of mind.
1:00- Brittany in bathroom. The box says the test should take around 3 minutes. Our test takes all of about 30 seconds to come back positive.
1:15- I make Brittany take another test. How am I supposed to trust 2 pregnancy test??? We need this thing in triplicate. Again, takes about 30 seconds to tell us we it's positive.
4:30- I'm still sitting there trying to grasp what had just happened?
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