Monday, November 24, 2008

Telling Aunt Lindsay!!!

Well I need to start this story with one detail, it is absolutely my sister's fault I even wanted children. My sister has the most fantastic children, Tyler who is 7 and Hoken who is 2. It is all fun and games being the aunt and getting to spoil your nephews rotten, then it hits you, you want kids too.

I have made sure to spoil my nephews to the best of my ability because yes they are that great. SO for the story, Lindsay and Sam and Hoken arrived in Lincoln a few hours after I did. I had already told mom and now it's time for Lindsay to know...I had my cute t shirt all prepared and I knew I could talk Hoken into putting on an awesome Hawkeye shirt. We snuck in the bathroom, he let me change his t shirt and I sent him into the kitchen, with mom poised with her camera and me holding my camera.

Lindsay said, "what do you have on, assuming I was just pushing the Hawks on poor Hoken again, thank heavens Lindsay is a University of Iowa graduate or I would have an even more uphill battle. she read the shirt and went, yep Darci is having a baby. I guess mom had told her just that day our sister Darci was having her 4th child. Mom didn't know at the time that we would be having 2 other bundles of joy at the same time, so Lindsay just figured it was for Darci.

Then mom said, "no, not Darci...Lori" so we exchanged the look of shock and of course I was crying in the kitchen and I'm sure all the men were like what is going on? So we get through the story, yes Lindsay your sister is pregnant and you will get to be an aunt in June. Then the kicker, I love telling the kicker, on the bottom of his shirt it says, Coming June 2009 TWICE, WAHOOOOO.

So my sister decides to remind me how huge I will be very soon, yep that's what sister's do :). My favorite part of the story comes the next day, our aunt brought some books for Lindsay to read to Hoken before bed. One of the books is Mommy is Having a Baby. Lindsay read that story to my nephew the night before and of course before nap time on the day of his birthday. We are sitting in the dining room and Lindsay asks her son.."where are aunt Lori's babies?" (keep in mind he is going to be all Big Ten AND a Rhodes Scholar). He goes into the living room, picks up the book and then proceeds to lift my shirt so he can see my belly...this is why I am blessed and why I am having children, he showed me the joy children bring into your life.

I hope I can be half the mother she is.

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