My brother sent me a link to a youtube video over the weekend. It was a video of pictures put to music of my nephew Riley. I assumed that he was just messing around with his new Mac and sent the video because I’ve complained about the lack of photos of Riley. This changed in the last 10 seconds of the video when the test appeared on the screen saying “From the proud parents who brought you M2…….M3 March 2009″. The entire M2, M3 thing is a programmer thing. (Avery is technically M1).
It was hard not to call and share our news with them also. Since we are waiting until Labor Day to share our news, it is going to be a tough couple of weeks. Come March, it’s going to be a crazy time in the Motylinski households. Riles and Aves will be two and a half and almost three, respectively, when the siblings arrive. I have a vision of the older kids running around getting into a bunch of trouble as the new siblings are being admired by everyone. It’ll be interesting to hear what the official due dates are. Our first doctor visit isn’t until the 18th of August and I think J and C have theirs this week. How both of these happened at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out to be a race to the finish between Dos and M3.
At least we have unique names for the two babies.
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I have been able successfully keep the secret so far. It seems that the subject has come up often in conversation. At work today, the discussion of kids and babies came up. The two other fathers in the discussion had drastically different ideas of being a parent. Both said that they are done after one. Then they asked me if we were having anymore. I wanted to share the great knews, but I used my standard line, “We aren’t discussing it until I’m done with school.”
I was excited with Avery, but I also had a healthy helping of terrror. I didn’t know what to expect. This time around I feel like I know what I’m in for so all I’m feeling is the excitement. I think I have a goo grasp on the baby stuff so what is there to fear? I do recognize that Avery was a even keeled kid so I don’t know what to do if Dos is high maintenance. I saw a little glipse of a challenging baby in my nephew but I only watch and listened for asa small amount of time. 24 hours a day is long time to have an angry baby. But seeing Riley know it’s hard to remember the times he was unhappy. I figure if Dos is angry, my brother will have a good list of things they tried and what worked.
Hopefully, I won’t have to ask his advice.
I got a little glipse of what Michelle and I are in for with number two. It happened at a brunch at my parents house. We were halfway through eating so Avery decided that he was done eating. Riley had the same feeling as Avery. Michelle was positioned between the boys and was doing a wonderful job of keeping the boys from knocking over their glasses of milk.
This made me realize that I’m going to have to step-up my game. Michelle has been so great with Aves that she would pick up my slack. With two it is going to be even harder.
I do worry how Aves will deal no longer being the center of attention. I do think he is going to be a awesome big brother. Lately, he has been waking up in the morning and immediately looking for Lily. He runs around the house until he finds her. When he does, he screams, “LILY!!” and gives her a giant hug. He also is so caring an concerned with the feelings of others. This may lead to some unhappy times when number two is crying.
We saw both sets of grandparents yesterday and it was hard not to share our news. I can’t wait until I can share the exciting news.
Michelle and I found out this morning that we expecting baby number two. It hasn’t sunk in what this means for us and our family. All I’m feeling is excitement and an overabundance of joy. I’m at a loss at what I’m supposed to do right now. One thing I know I’m going to have to do is keep this under wraps for longer time than we did with Avery. We found out about Ave’s after Michelle was pretty far along. As a result we only had to keep the secret for a week or two. This time she is only a month along and this is at the longest. We haven’t been to the doctor yet so I’m not sure how they figure out dates. It’s going to be tough to keep quiet, but it should give us some time to figure out how we are going to tell our families. We have a couple ideas but like I said we have some time.
I figure I’d do what I usally do when I’m feeling overwhelmed; that would be to start a blog. I’m going to keep things hidden until we are telling people. I’ll then go back and make the posts public so people can see the progression from the beginning. As always, I’ll try to post regularly, but history has proven this isn’t always my strong suit.