New job, new city, new apartment, and soon…. a New Teague!

Josh and I are completely thrilled and feel so blessed and humbled. As of publication time, we are four months into this thing. Why did we wait so long to tell such exciting news?!? Well…

We found out about two weeks before the move. Rather than tell friends and family so early on, we decided to wait. We also knew we wanted to tell as many people at the same time and in person as possible. There were plans to come back to Atlanta in September for Josh’s dad’s birthday and the annual Petrella Beach Retreat. At that point we’d be into the second trimester and eager to tell.

So one cross-country move, two and a half months, and a plane trip back to Atlanta later, it was time to tell the families. 

The Teagues were up first.  Our sister-in-law, Jeanine, is expecting their third child in December. We also owed her a belated birthday gift. Google will stick their name on any kind of gift. So Josh bought two Google infant onesies and put both in a purse we bought for Jeanine. The plan was to let her find both and then…

Josh: “Oh, how’d that one get in there? That’s supposed to be for us!”

Lauren: “That’s okay. We don’t need it until March.”

BOOM! They’d all get it and it would be so fun! And that’s almost what happened. Only one thing  threw us off. Right before Jeanine found the onesies, the phone rang and Josh’s mom went to answer it. By the time she got back (Reality-she was gone about two seconds. To us, it felt like ten minutes) we were even more nervous and tongue-tied. Mission accomplished anyway. Good thing the Teagues are quick.

Here’s the reaction:

Next up: The Petrellas. My mom has been begging for pictures of the apartment. The nieces have been longing to see Remy. So we created a virtual tour of our new city and home, complete with Remy footage for the girls. The Baby Bomb drops at the end.

Here’s the short video we edited together:

This time nothing could frazzle us, right? We’re pros at this point. Just before we were going to subtly get everyone’s attention, our 6 year old niece stood up and announced: “Everyone, I have some news. Mommy’s going to have a baby!” 

Naturally, we were incredibly happy and excited! Also a little confused. ( “Wait, does she mean us? Wasn’t that what we were going to say?” ) We were also not sure what to do next. Postpone? Piggy-back with an “us, too!” ? About ten minutes later, all four nieces were asking to go to the pool. So I panic. “Who wants to see Remy?! We have a video we want to show, but it’s really short! No big deal, we can watch it later, but it’s really short so we can just watch it real quick. Mom, it shows our apartment! Whatever, we don’t care or anything. It has Remy, girls!” Smooth, I know.

Here’s their reaction: (Watch my mom in the white robe. She doesn’t make a move until she’s 100% positive we are definitely announcing a pregnancy.)

 
Up until this point, this baby had been kept our little (pun?) secret for over three months. So you can imagine that most discussion for the rest of the weekend pertained directly to pregnancy. Such a relief! 

We cannot believe our families have so many babies on the way! Jeanine and Katie, my sister-in-law, are both in their sixth months and my sister Mandy is only three weeks behind me. FOUR, I repeat, FOUR women in our immediate families are expecting! It’s our own mini Baby Boom. 2009 promises to be an extremely interesting and busy year. Stay tuned!