in the beginning...

On April 19, 2011 we found out we were going to be parents. We had been planning this for some time so it was nothing but a pleasant and long-awaited surprise. We anxiously awaited the first ultrasound to find the heartbeat.  At about 9 weeks, we were elated to see the beating heart in our first ultrasound and got this fuzzy picture.

On Mother's Day, we hosted a brunch for Pat's mom, Ellen, and Aunt Anna. There were sweet enough to bring me a pile of pregnancy books and a card.

In this early stage, we were still keeping the pregnancy a pretty close secret but having our own fun calling the embryo The Sea Monkey since that's what illustrations of this development stage look like.