There's a baby on the way!

A couple of weeks ago we were headed to Marshall, and Sam suddenly piped up from the back seat, "Mom, I think there's probably a baby ready for you to pick up at the hospital.  We should stop by there and check."  I explained to him that it doesn't really work that we and we skipped the unnecessary stop.

I didn't even know it yet, but he was sort of right.  I was just barely pregnant at the time, and am now offically about 5 weeks along.  We don't really bother to wait telling people because in about a week, I'm going to have to explain why I'm puking all the time anyway :)

The kids are very excited, although I think Sam might start doubting that a baby is really on the way.  His first reaction was, "Let's go to the hospital right now to pick it up."  After we explained that the baby is in my belly, he came over, lifted my shirt and looked into my belly button to try to see the baby. He now checks my belly a few times a day to see if the baby has grown. Every time he checks, his conclusion is the same: "No baby yet." Elena wanted to know how big the baby was, etc. so I showed her pictures of what it looked like online.  According to Elena, "it looks like a lizard."  I reminded her that she looked like a lizard at that age, too.

Elena is convinced it's a girl because "she prayed for a baby more than Sam did." She has already started collecting pretty things to give to the baby - a boquet of flowers, shiny rocks, etc. Sam, of course, is rooting for a boy. He told his babysitter today that the baby would be a boy and he was going to wrestle with him. ("Not until he's older!"Elena quickly reminded him.) When their sitter asked Sam, "What if it's a girl?" he replied, "It won't be."