January 20, 2009 We're pregnaaaaannnnnttttttttt!!!!~!@1 It has happened, and I'm as shocked as you are. Jennifer and I found out last Saturday that she is pregnant.. Yes, Jennifer is pregnant. It doesn't matter how many times I say it, it doesn't quite register in my brain. I'm gonna be a dad.. yeeaaahhhhh! So I might as well tell you how we found out. Last Saturday morning I was just waking up, not because I was ready to wake up, but because Jennifer was getting up to go to the restroom (#1 of course, girls never go #2). So I'm laying there half asleep and I hear Jennifer tear a wrapper open. Instantly I can distinguish the sound from her girly things and I know it's a pregnancy test. I know this because it's been several months since she stopped taking her birth control pills and she's taken a test or two just to be sure that... well, you know. So I continue to lay there, half asleep, and a few minutes later I hear the tearing sound again. This definitely catches my attention. My first thought is "Uhh... what the...?!" What would provoke a second test!?? So, I'm awake at this point. I'm just laying there with my eyes closed feeling a bit confused, but trying to avoid thinking about it because I feel like I'm just getting myself worked up for no reason. Several minutes go by, and I've actually convinced myself that it isn't possible and I'm starting to fall back into sleepyland. That's about the time that Jennifer comes back to bed, and cuddles up next to me like the perfect spoon, and I hear her whisper very softly... "I love you". I'm awake again. I know she loves me, and she tells me all the time - but this time is different. She's holding me really tight, almost as if she's afraid to let go. My body temperature instantly rises about 50,000 degrees. I roll over and look at her - and she just looks at me - and I can instantly tell that she is not joking. She manages to get out the words "I'm sooo scared right now" before tears begin to stream down her face. My mind starts racing, and I'm trying to comprehend what's happening. I don't think I can remember a time when I had a more paralyzing fear take over my body. So after about 30 seconds, I realize that the blank stare on my face is probably making this a million times scarier for her, so I force myself to snap out of it. I lean over and I put my arms around her to make sure that she knows that I'm okay and that I'm not going to bolt out the door and head to Mexico or something. Still, I had to ask.. "you're not messing with me right now, are you?" She assures me she's not. So for the last week I've been trapped between these overwhelming feelings of excitement and fear. I'm super excited because I love kids, and I know that I want to have kids, but I'm scared shitless because I don't know if I'm ready. I mean, I feel like a big ass kid myself. I like to have fun. I like to drink, screw around, act like an idiot and make fun of people. I'm 31 years old, but I don't feel it - not mentally anyways. But then I start to think, if I was to have a kid right now, I'll be 50 by the time he (or by some freak accident, she) graduates High School. FIFTY!!! That might as well be 500, I'm ready. So we're pretty excited now and we've already told most of the people that need to know first, and some people are beginning to talk so we wanted to let everyone know before they found out from someone less credible. We are indeed having a baby, and we hope you're happy for us. I strongly urge everyone (that is 1. old enough, and 2.not related to me) to have lots of sex and make babies so our kids can grow up together!!! Thanks for listening!!! James and Jennifer
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