Rodrigo and Joy

The past few weeks have been all about waiting.
The first set of tests got done last week, though we don’t know the results.
This Monday will be the 8 week mark, two months, one more month for the 85 days essentially.
We have both been really busy. Joy has been working and going to school, and have been working lots. The blog has been somewhat not updated, and i will start again to clog more often now.
My birthday just passed, and i have been thinking a lot about celebrating with family. How that will be once we have kids together. It is all very very exciting.
Tomorrow we are having a BBQ at a park with close friends. That is something i can’t wait to do and share with my kids, all the exploring of parks, and adventures.

Today I got to meet my friend Kristen’s baby, Jake, he is so cute.  She is a radiant mom, just beaming with love for her new son and this new adventure into parenting.  I wonder what it will be like to hold my babies for the first time.  What it will be like to have that special bond that you see with moms and babies.   to watch them growing so fast, already their own little person, will they be easy and sleep through the night like Jake or will they test my endurance  with the waking through the night?  I can’t wait to join the mother club.  To have my own baby to learn and love and watch grow.  I have already started looking at names and how I should be eating while I am pregnant,  while I have a lot of experience with babies I don’t know much about being pregnant, it will be an interesting learning experience. hopefully I will do good.

It has been a perfect morning. I love the mornings when we don’t have to get up right away and we just snuggle and talk about anything and laugh.  we are surrounded by the cats who have taken up their positions around us, Route and Data, till they decided that they are hungry and then they initiate the kitty wake up strategy. I was thinking what our mornings will be like when we are surrounded by our children who have crept into our bed at some point in the night and we wake up in a big tangle of family and pets all trying to stay snuggled up together on the bed.  I will wake up to see Rodrigo watching us all the way he watches me sleep now, and I can see how much he loves us.  and I look at our kids and feel so lucky to be there in that moment. so filled with love. I think we might need a bigger bed.

Another week has gone by, things continue to go great.
Just over the 4 week mark, and i am really looking forward to the 6 week mark.
Dr. Silber gave Joy lots of things that she could not do till the 6 week mark.
Any real exercise, lifting for heavy objects, things of that nature. To me it feels like after the 6 weeks, all the normal things we are use to doing we can do again, and that is wonderful.
This morning Joy was experiencing some pain around the area where hey ovary lies. When she told me i immediately went into “ohh no, what could be going wrong?”. After talking about it a little bit, it was fine. Thinking about it some more there is a part of me that is saying, humm perhaps these are cramps coming on for her, this could be her body gearing up. I get happy thinking about her body doing all the things it was design to do, all on its own. I know this is probably to early still for her to have a period, but non the less i keep on thinking what if it is….
I must be the only male that is happily awaiting for his woman’s period to start.
tick tock…

Just got a chance to catch the piece on Good Morning America. It was well produced and we enjoyed watching it. It was great to work with the producer, thanks for that.
I will write a longer post later today to discuss the content, and fill in some blanks in the story. I will also try to see if i can post a video of the story for those that would like to watch it, and missed it.
To read the ABC story click on the image.
Joy is doing really great! and i am so happy and thankful for that.