I remember it like yesterday, although it was four years ago. I sat on a bench at the school playground when one of my best friends swooped in with a giant Diet Coke and a wide a$$ grin on her face.
Kate...I think I'm pregnant!! I'm going home to take the test right now!!
With that, she sashayed back into her still running car, and off she drove, presumably to pee on a stick. Me, on other hand, sat mouth on the cork lined,playground floor, not out of surprise for her announcement, but more out of shock that I'd just suddenly realized my period was...
Kids! Get in the car!!! NOW! We're going to CVS!!
I must have peed on fourteen sticks that day. I desperately wanted a third child, but my first two were so close together, and I was planning on waiting a bit. But like a friend so eloquently described me "Husband coughs, you get knocked up". Well he had coughed.
Nine months later, my girlfriend and I were at the hospital, literally next door to each other, snuggling our precious newborns. My third little girl, Alexis Sumner, was my easiest labor, and shh, don't tell the other girls, my easiest baby. My baby turns five today-five! She's still my baby, and always will be. I think she actually likes that fact. We'll ask her again at 16.
I love surprises. This one's the icing on the cake.
and in honor of my birthday babe, a little online shopping. Five under $25, here goes:
~Skinny laser cut belt from the Gap.
~Caviar Day Cream from Mario Badescu
~Peppermint Hot Cocoa from Ghiradelli (Stage an intervention, we have an addict here.)
Happy birthday LexiLou-who!
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