Baby Kalal #2

We are thrilled to officially share the news with the world!  We will welcome Baby Kalal #2 into the world sometime around October 25, 2012.  I am now into the second trimester, and everything about baby looks and sounds healthy! 
After Cooper turned one, Jeremy and I decided we were ready to stop preventing the possibility of a baby.  Since things took so long to get pregnant with Cooper, we accepted that it could take a while again.  So although it wasn't a complete shock to find out after just one month that we were expecting, it was certainly a thrilling surprise.  I had a couple gut feelings before taking a pregnancy test, but I just pushed them out of my mind, thinking I didn't want to take yet another negative pregnancy test again in my life... but I finally took one.  Lucky for us--it was positive!  I waited until our sixth anniversary to tell Jeremy, which meant I had to hold in the news for two days.  It was torture, but also kind of fun :) 
I wrapped the positive test inside a baby bib that said, "Baby's First Halloween," and gave it to Jeremy that evening.  We just sat for a few minutes and laughed.  Laughed about how easy it happened this time; laughed about how completely surprised we were; laughed about how Cooper will adjust to not being an only child anymore; laughed about what our parents would say; laughed about how different life will be.  Needless to say, we were walking on Cloud Nine for the rest of the night and the rest of the weekend... and the weeks that followed.

9 weeks, 4 days - Our Little Peanut!

At the first doctor's appointment, we got to see baby and hear his or her little heartbeat, which was beating at a strong 168 bpm.  We could even see the little arms and legs moving.  The actual size of baby in this ultrasound photo is about one inch long.  So far, so good... everything at this point is looking just fine!

Our family is about to grow, and we're just hanging on--enjoying the ride :)