Guess we'll have two under 2!

Well, the saying goes that with the second pregnancy, second child ... you just don't have the time like you did with the first to document it all with photos and stories, scrapbooks, albums or blogs. I am living proof! I promise to love my second child just as much as Beckton but clearly I let some time go by (in blog land anyway) without the back story on how our family is growing ... yet again! So here it is.

With the New Year (2010) came cold temperatures, snow, and apparently not very many people were leaving there homes last winter because so many of my friends ended up pregnant, including my friend Katie who happens to be due 5 days before me! I should note that Scott and I had no plans of a second Kenney so soon after our first. We had discussed having more than one child many times but the reality of it seemed very far off! We said we MIGHT try for another well after Beckton was 1 year old, maybe even 2. Clearly, if that was our plan we should have “planned” a little better! We still can’t figure out how it happened but have had many offers from friends (and even my Dad) to tell us “how” our little “oops”, I mean “miracle” came to be. Dad asked if Scott and I had a night in a hot tub with cheap wine … sadly that was not the case but would have made for a better story! Truth is we don’t really know when it happened like we did with Beckton – again the best laid plans …

So this story isn’t all that different from when I found out I was pregnant with Beckton. I had a funny suspicion that something was going on due to my cravings for cold pizza which I think is utterly disgusting. I mean I was eating it for breakfast and thinking I was in heaven. Then came the fruit cravings again, just like with the first pregnancy. It was the dead of winter and I was dying for watermelon. The other clues were exhaustion, the fact that no matter what I tried I could not feel comfortable in my clothing (aka I felt like a cow) and I shouldn’t leave out my outbursts to my lovely husband, which included “Unless you are going to help, then shut the hell up” (who knows what that was about) and the frequent meltdowns after leaving Beckton at daycare.

Here I am … pregnant and I don’t even know yet…

I decided that I was crazy and I didn’t even speak about it to Scott. I told no one except my friend Aly that I thought I could be pregnant. I told Aly at work one day and the next day she brought in a pregnancy test set it on my desk and said “let’s go, we’re doing this.” So we headed to the bathroom at work (which is not private but has 6 stalls and is frequently crowded) and I did the test right there. Apparently I was not supposed to find out that day as I accidentally dropped the complete test in the toilet. Aly and I tried to dry it out but it was digital and so we just laughed hysterically. We told no one.

So a few snowy days later in February… the 10th to be exact Scott and I were both working from home and we had 9 month old Beckton with us. At lunch we went sledding outside with him … though we didn’t have a sled so we used his infant seat, strung a rope through it and pulled him through our backyard. Some would say we are a little white trash but I like to call it resourceful.

After sledding I told Scott I needed to run to the pharmacy to grab a few things. I took Beckton with me, grabbed a box of pregnancy tests and stood in line. The cashier looked at me a little funny as I had a baby on my hip already and so I just said “I’m hoping that one of these will tell me why I have been so tired lately.”
At home Scott was on a conference call so I took Beckton in the bathroom with me while I took the test. I couldn’t do it alone! I needed morale support and for some reason I thought if it was positive it might be fun to surprise Scott. Well about 5 seconds after I did the test it was clear as day. At that point (after looking at my face in the mirror several times with eyes popping out of my head) Beckton and I went into his room, grabbed a white onesie and a black marker and wrote the following "I'm gonna be a big brother." When Scott got off the conference call he came in, read Beckton’s shirt and looked at me puzzled. So, I said “Beckton give your toy to Daddy” (yes, I washed it off first) and he handed the positive test to Scott who said “No way are you serious?”

After a hug and congratulations from Scott who was ecstatic, I should note just for memory sake, that we got into a fight instantly because I said there would be no way I could take care of two babies and work full-time so I would have to quit my job and we didn’t speak for a few hours! Luckily he knew I was just hormonal so he went out and came home with flowers to make everything all better!

The weeks that followed were filled with angst and excitement as we began to tell our family and friends. Most were shocked but after the initial shock they were mostly excited for us!
A few memorable quotes –
"You have to update your blog and call it Oops I did it again" - Aly
“What the hell are you doing?” – Katie’s Dad
“How are you going to take care of two?” – Katie’s Mom
“What? You’re kidding?” – Katie’s sister Julie
"The only thing better than one Beckton is two" - Scott's parents
“That’s like having one dog and getting another; why would you do that?” – Scott’s cousin Bart

In all seriousness, the trouble we had getting pregnant the first time was tough and so the fact that this little one just came out of nowhere was pretty exciting. I can remember standing in Beckton’s room one night rocking him to sleep and thinking … I will never forget rocking both of my babies at the same time. How lucky I am and how precious this little life is

The first trimester was not unlike the last pregnancy – sick ALL the time. I can’t even begin to remember the amount of times I threw up in a plastic bag in the car, in my trashcan at work, or on the side of the road. I also grew very fast! Below is a picture of me on Easter at 11 weeks.

March 30th we had our first ultrasound! We were both very excited to see a happy and healthy baby and that's exactly what we got. We had no word on the sex yet but didn't really care anyway. At this point Scott was thinking BOY and I was thinking GIRL and we were both really excited!!