Praise the Lord, we are so blessed! Instead of just referring to Harper, “my child”, I now get to use the phrases- “my children”, and “my babies”, and possibly, “my boys”. Wow! JB and I celebrated seven years of wedded bliss tonight. If you had asked me seven years ago if I could imagine where the Lord would have brought us today, I would definitely have to answer, “No”. Never in a million years did I imagine being this blessed, it is so humbling!! I mean, we adore Harper so much, and now we get to experience that all over again. I can not even imagine loving another baby as much as him, but I hear the love multiplies; and, I can’t wait to experience it.
It has been so much fun announcing this pregnancy! I think the second time is even more exciting because we now somewhat know what we are getting into; and, we love it, so it makes it that much more fun! Getting to tell everyone we are expecting finally makes it seem real too. When I was pregnant with Harper, it took me 5 tests to believe it was real. Yes, 5! This always makes people laugh… I mean, isn’t it ME who tells every patient, “Yes, if the test says you are pregnant, you are pregnant. There are no false positives… False negatives, yes, but nofalse positives.” How come I can dish out this advice and truth to others, but can’t believe my own test results?! So, in true Cindy fashion, I was curious and tested last Friday. The two lines popped up right away. But, after walking around the house smiling and in disbelief, when I returned to glance at the test, the second line had lightened in color. I thought to myself, “Well, maybe it was a false positive.” Hello, Cindy!! JB woke up early Saturday to go to work, and as soon as Harper woke up, Iwe ran off to buy some more tests. When I returned home, I immediately tested again- there it was, 2 positive lines! I still couldn’t believe it, and had bought a digital test (you know, just to make sure!). Shaking, I took the digital tests. Third time’s a charm! It read… You guessed it: “Pregnant”! Now, I could finally let myself believe it… Hey, I’m getting better, it only took 3 tests this time 
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Now for the fun part, I only had a little while to put my creative plan in sharing my exciting news with JB together. And, unlike last time, this time was a bit more challenging. Not only was I on a time crunch, but it was lovely pouring cats and dogs outside, and Harper was wanting me to entertain him. Off to the store for some more supplies… You see, I plan these announcements way before we are ever pregnant. I have so much fun doing this… I once had a friend who said pregnancy announcements are the girls’ version of what guys get to plan when they propose. So true! And, JB loves being a dad and loves surprises; therefore, I try to do my best to make his day.
We have developed a new office logo, and have been talking about doing maternity t-shirts for the office. I came up with the idea of incorporating our new shirt into my announcement. Of course, when I have a grand idea, nothing can go as planned! Harper and I returned home with all my supplies in tow. I typed everything up- even figured out how to reverse the letters into mirror image (so complicated!), and as I go to print out my iron on labels, the printer is out of ink. Are. you. kidding. me? Seriously?! Back in the car we go, poor Harper! I barge into the office through the backdoor and JB, who is supposed to be with patients, is there to greet me, “Hey! What are you guys doing here?” I quickly hide my stash of supplies behind my back, “Oh just need to print something real quick.” And, I run by him quickly. “Ok, see you later.” But, when I get upstairs, I find out all the office printers are laser which can be destroyed by iron on labels. Great! Back in the car, nothing accomplished, and JB’s work day is quickly coming to an end…
We arrive at the store, and I find some ink that I think will work in our printer. I dash back home, get Harper some toys to entertain himself, as I attempt to figure out how to replace printer ink. I did it, the labels print off in just the nick of time! Now to iron everything onto my shirt. Voila!
I was really proud of the cute, final product. JB had asked me to pick up his dry-cleaning that morning too. At this point, it was laying neatly across the bed. I decided to hang my announcement shirt on a dry-cleaning hanger and place it on top of his clothes. Just as I got it all hung and positioned the way I wanted, snapped a picture and laid Harper down for his nap, JB walked in from work.
I tried to act as normal and calm as possible, but I was so excited! “Check your drycleaning to make sure it’s all there.” I said as he walked by it. “I will”, he replied. How could he not notice the extra shirt he hadn’t dropped off that I had picked up?! He walked by the clothes twenty three times, before I said in a more irritated nicevoice, “You really need to check your clothes and put them up!” To which he responded, “Ok!” in an equally nice annoyed voice. He took a look at the pile, then a closer look, and then gave me a puzzled look… “Are we?!” He exclaimed, as he jumped up and down and gave me a huge bear hug. “Yep!” I was so excited! I could finally rejoice with my best friend and the father of my children. We hugged and jumped up and down and screamed and prayed to thank God for His blessing. Just like when I announced Harper’s pregnancy, I will never forget this day.
There’s the story that so many have asked about, that is how I told JB. How about you, any cool stories of how you announced your pregnancies? Come on, share, I need ideas for my next ones 
! Also, stayed tuned for how we told our parents and friends; their reactions have been priceless. And, I’ll even let you in on a cool contest one of my friends is doing to help name her baby… Glad she is holding this contest because we have absolutely no ideas for boy names this time. All of that to come later, this first trimester is exhausting, I am off to bed!
Meredith
April 26, 2010
11:06 PM
Too bad i have never been able to surprise Ben with pregnancy news. He has always been the one to go check the stick because I am too afraid of what it might say or might not say. I dont know how you women do it alone. Can’t wait to hug your neck (and rub your belly) in person!
Grace
April 26, 2010
11:14 PM
LOVE IT!!! Yah for another Haggerton baby! What a blessing! Love y’all and miss y’all.
Christy@pipandsqueak
April 26, 2010
11:49 PM
With Katherine I had a scavenger hunt type thing with clues leading him around the house. The final one ended in the future nursery and had a card about being a great dad along with the pregnancy test. With Caroline it was our final Sunday in Norway before moving back. Even though it was in November it was Father’s Day in Norway. I bought a Gud Farsdag (Happy Father’s Day) card and I gave it to him as we ate at our favorite place. It was so funny that both times he was surprised. I was like, “Hello, we have been trying and you were there!”
DeAndra
April 26, 2010
11:56 PM
Congratulations!! Thanks for sharing your good news!
Debi
April 27, 2010
12:14 AM
Wooohoooo!! Congrats! I’m so impressed at how creative you are in telling JB.
Sleep tight sweet mommy.
Denise
April 27, 2010
12:15 AM
Love the story and love ya’ll! Love that JB was annoyed and didn’t even notice at first. Sounds about right when we want to come out of our skin waiting for the light bulb to go off in their heads! ha! Thanks for sharing!
dianthe
April 27, 2010
12:40 AM
YAY!!!!! i am so excited for you guys – y’all make beautiful babies!! Harper is going to be a great big brother!
Kate
April 27, 2010
8:58 AM
One time Scott had just come home from work and I told him that I had tried to cook dinner but the oven wasn’t working. I asked him if he could try and fix it. I had put a bun in the oven and when he opened it he, in true Scott fashion, made fun of me for leaving bread in the oven…..it took him a FEW min to realize what I was trying to tell him! That we had a bun in the oven!!
Mae
April 27, 2010
10:33 AM
I have never felt your excitement through text as much as I have reading this! CONGRATS! Again, and again, and again!
Kitty Osmon
April 27, 2010
1:12 PM
So exciting!
Mommypotamus
April 28, 2010
7:22 AM
LOVE this story! Great job putting together w creative surprise in a hurry!
Hillary
April 28, 2010
8:56 PM
Oh! We are so excited for you!! Congratulations!!
Kristin Griffeth
April 28, 2010
10:57 PM
Hi Dr. Cindy! I ran across your blog while looking at Sara Jones’ blog. She is married to one of my friends from high school and it is so crazy to find out that she works at your birthing center. It is funny the connections we find in life. Just wanted to drop you a line and say hi and thanks for all your help when we lived in Texas. Congrats on your little boy and on expecting your second child! We are living in Boise, Idaho now and are slowly building our own practice. We love it here and are enjoying life. Hope life is treating you well and that you get a break once in a while!
Kristin Griffeth
Kelly
June 11, 2010
4:08 PM
OK, here’s my pregnancy announcement story. I got up REALLY early to take a pregnancy test – positive! Since it was a Dollar Tree test, I wanted to get a better brand of test to make sure, so I ran off to CVS to get another test while Jeremy was still in bed. While there, I had to think of a cover for why I left the house, so I decided to get bread to make french toast. As it turns out, I had enough time to make the french toast and WAKE HIM UP, so I didn’t need a cover after all. Anyhow, Seth’s birthday party was the day before, and I had a tube of leftover icing in the fridge, so I wrote “Father of 3″ in icing on his french toast. Then I quickly made signs for the kids – Jude’s said, “Oldest of 3″ and Seth’s said, “I’m not the youngest anymore, Dad”. He saw his toast and the signs and smiled and said, “Really?!” We were both so excited!
Margo
July 1, 2010
9:47 AM
Pregnancy announcement to the family…
We went on vacation to Canada in December (knowing since Oct. that we were pregnant). While there we had our picture taken with Santa Claus, yes we are a couple of BIG KIDS! After the picture my husband had the idea of making a sign saying “special Delivery July 3, 2010″. So the next day we went back and had our picture taken with Santa again, this time having him hold the sign. We got a couple of copies and gave these framed pics to our families at Christmas. We videoed them opening their pictures. Their responses were hysterical and sweet at the same time.
My husband has a LARGE family and we knew we would be with them for Christmas. In order to tell them all at the same time I bought “birthday invitations” and filled them out accordingly. We gave each person an invitation, telling them it was something extra we wanted to give them for Christmas. Then we had them all open them at the same time. Seeing some of their perplexed faces when they were reading “birthday invitation” was priceless. It was fun!
Janet
September 26, 2010
10:22 AM
I photographed a wedding on March 9th and the bride and groom had one of those photo booths where you could make flip books as a “thank you” gift. They had props and all kinds of fun costume clothes. I thought maybe I was pregnant, so I made a flip book where I pointed to my tummy, gave a questionable look, and held up a sign that said we’re expecting! I made another one too that said “I love you” just for fun because I wanted to show it to him. Well, the next day, we went to church and my friend was in front of me holding her newborn. I asked to hold her and Brandon leaned over and asked me when Daddy and I were going to have another baby. I told him that was up to God. He told me he wanted a brother. I said, well, why don’t you ask God for one. He knelt down and prayed for me to be pregnant with a boy. That night, I took a pregnancy test and I was pregnant! I handed the flip book to Todd and told him to look at it. He commented on how he already saw it. I told him I made a different one. He flipped through it and said, “REALLY?!” He gave me a huge hug. It was wonderful!