A new baby Campbell is coming to our family around September 28, 2010. Today I am 12 weeks along and the pregnancy is going well--least amount of sickness I've ever had in my first trimester. Yesterday during an ultrasound I got a pretty good look at the cute little guy/gal, who was very active. It's so amazing to see such a complete little body in such a small size. The image was a little too fuzzy to be sure of the baby's sex, so hopefully next ultrasound we'll be able to tell. We'll keep you posted.
My doctor, (the same one who delivered Brandon, Nathan, and Jacob), said our summer travel plans should be unaffected by the pregnancy. I can travel up until the end of August, he said. We usually return to Okinawa at the beginning of August.
Yesterday the kids got the news. Nathan and Jacob came along with me to my doctor's appointment, so I told Nathan what was going on. He took it in stride. Interestingly, he had already guessed one day when he was next to me on the couch and he used my belly as leverage to boost himself up higher. Noticing the difference, he exclaimed, "There's a baby in your tummy!" I told him, "Not yet..." It wasn't time to tell him. Yesterday was. Now he likes to come up with names for the new baby. His favorite sounds something like, "Ooowitt" with a silly growl in his voice. (And when he says it, Jacob makes a cute little baby growl noise. Love it.)
Soon after the other kids got off the school bus, Nathan said to Brandon, "Mom has a baby in her tummy!" Brandon asked me if I really did, and I said yes, and he grinned--BIG! I was going to wait until Paul got home to tell Emily and Brandon so he could see their reactions, but since Nathan was blabbing, I figured Emily would rather hear it from me than the others, so I told her. It took a little time for her to adjust to the news. She felt uneasy about it and I think she was trying to put her finger on why. She said she was worried she'd have to share her room (which is pretty impossible, at least while we're here, seeing as her room is TI-NY!), and she said Jacob was too young to have a little brother or sister. Anyway, after a few hours of processing it, she felt better.
Paul and I are excited to welcome another little one into our family. Life isn't going to get any easier anytime soon, but as I remember reading from Elder Robert D. Hales (and I hope I'm remembering the source correctly): "I wasn't looking for easy." (Those who know me know that that's not always true about me, but I'm working on it.)
