In Living Color….Floating Like a Balloon…..

So after May 4^th, we were anticipating an updated ultrasound seven days from the fourth…I mean literally, I was climbing walls with many questions that kept me up at night. We attempted to call Lexi first, which lead us to voicemail. Two days following Lexi and I were playing phone tag with one another. By the 10^th Kev and I finally decided we needed to converse with our over seas family before we both lost it. We then thought it would be best to talk straight to the horse’s mouth. So, we called Anjani around 10:20pm our time…May 11^th 11:50 AM India’s time. Unfortunately Anjani hadn’t arrived at the office when we called, so we said we would call back and I then sent all my questions via email to Anjani. ..yeah, I had so many questions, I was like a mad woman. I tried to sleep that night, but couldn’t. When I received an email from Anjani early that morning stating Dr.Samit was out of the office until next Tuesday, the 15^th.  We took a deep breath and said ok.

It was the 17^th and we hadn’t heard anything about Pea Pod (nickname for the baby) so Kevin called and spoke to Anjani. Anjani did state that the clinic has fifteen pregnant surrogates at the clinic with testing that has been processed these past couple of days. He informed us that he would forward us all the information that he had in our recent testing.

The 18^th Kev and I woke up to a beautiful COLORED ultrasound that had Pea Pod floating like a balloon in its little home. Again, Kev and I were ecstatic. Measuring crown rump length (CRL) 1.90 CM, heart beat is steady and strong still at 150-170. Of course I cried tears of happiness. It’s truly incredible how life is created and grows. We can just now start to see the body, head, what looks to be a HUGE nose, but it’s just the umbilical cord, hehehe. Our little baby is growing!

 The weekend of Mother’s Day (May 13^th, prior to the above ultrasound) my mom is so happy and excited about our pregnancy she had her girlfriend at work make us these little onesie's that are super cute. Along with the outfits came a book written by KK Wiseman, Tim Nichols, and Craig Wiseman with inserts from and sung “forward”, by Faith Hill. The book is “A Baby Changes Everything”. This book is beautiful and even comes with a CD from Faith Hill herself. For those of you who are not familiar with Faith Hill, She is a country music artist that is a beautiful person with an amazing voice. The book is centered around the birth and miracle of Jesus Christ. The book is uniquely written and created in a way to tell a short story about Jesus, Christmas and how everything about a baby really does change a parent’s life. Ironically, our baby is due December 28^th. This book is just perfect for us.

Onesie reads "Mr.Tassistro" made with a neck tie and painted blue snaps at the bottom so cute! 

Onesie reads  Miss. Tassistro with ribbon and rhinestones in the center of bow and at the bottom too! Turn the onesie over and  it has more ribbon and ruffles, so cute!

Human Nature is to embrace a child’s laughter…their cry.. AND A HEART BEAT!

You know that tug of happiness you get in your heart when the child sitting in the cart behind you is just laughing uncontrollable to his brothers goofy behavior or daddy’s silly face?

Or when you’re at a park and you hear a child’s cry of a skinned knee and you feel the urge of wanting to comfort and protect that child? Yeah, that is exactly what it's like when we heard new of our baby’s first heart beat….

We both received the ultrasound confirmation of pea pod’s very first hart beat the morning of May 4^th.   Both Kevin and I were at work when Anjani had sent us our updated email. I was in the midst of training my replacement (yes I got a promotion at work, very awesome!) when Kevin called me frantically asking me “where have you been all morning? I’ve called you ten times at work and on your cell”? He is so silly, he knew I was bouncing everywhere in the office training. I got really nervous and suddenly said, “what..what, wha-ha-happen”? He called to tell me we received an email from Anjani and wanted to open and read it together (as we always do with every email from India). After Kevin read the words “Congratulations we found a heart beat”, that was all I heard. I suddenly felt a huge wave of emotion wash over me as the flood gates to my heart and soul opened up and poured out profusely. Uncontrollable raw emotion of all my dreams, fears worries and prayers finally were there for me to feel once more and..then…just let go of. It was a beautiful moment. One I will never forget! After Kev and I shared our joy and tears with one another, I felt the urge to scream so super loud of praise and joy. It was unreal how out of control I was with my emotions. So, I went outside to take a break when I allow myself to release my voice, heart and soul. I was at that moment one of the most happiest people in the world. Right then and there after years of fears, worry, questions and doubt, I let it go…all of it.  I cried harder than I think I’ve ever cried in my life. Tears of joy and blessings . I buckled to my knees and thanked God, TRUE STORY!! IT was a glorious day for both of us. Just awesome!!We celebrated our news over a lovely dinner and a bottle of wine that night. Again, this is a day we both will never forget.

  

This is our first ultrasound picture of our little pea pod’s first heart beat. Yes, it is super small in size. Measuring CRL (Crown Rump Length) at .61 centimeters. The heart beat reading strong at 150 – 170 BPM (beats per minute).  Look closely, doesn’t it look like the nick name which we gave it..Pea Pod, hehehe.  O’my goodness, we are so going to be parents!!! Whooo-hooooo!!!

     I will send you our updates just as soon as time allows me. Now, off to do laundry, cleaning and grocery shopping. Have a good Sunday my friends!

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