My parents: Jake and I went to their house for dinner after a softball game. We began talking about the Flying Pig Marathon and I told my mom that after witnessing it as a spectator this year, I fully intend to run the half marathon next year. She proceeded to say "well you'll probably be pregnant then." I said "no I don't think I'll be pregnant." Because of my consistent attitude of wanting to wait until what seemed like the age of 40 to have kids, she rolled her eyes at me. A few minutes later I said "Mom, you want to know why I won't be pregnant during the marathon next year? Because I'm pregnant now." My mom, my sister, and my dad all had the same reaction most everyone has had so far: disbelief. Once they finally realized that I wasn't playing a cruel joke, the tears flowed and happiness ensued.
MS: This was pretty straightforward. I kind of just dropped the bomb. We were walking back from a morning Subway trip when I looked at her and said "so, I'm pregnant." She smacked me on the arm, cried, hugged me, and we went back to work with messed up mascara and chatted about it on messenger the whole day. It was perfect, and SO us.
ED: Jake wanted to incorporate the SGDB somehow since we had asked her to go get ice cream with us. When we got to her house he said "I don't think I'm going to get anything, maybe just a baby cone or something. You know, because I like babies." She had started to walk away, but turned around (again in disbelief) and said "wait, that's not cool. Babies? Are you serious? You can't say stuff like that when you're your age and married with no kids." We all just kind of laughed and smiled until she finally believed us. It was cute, and perfect for her.
K&W: We planned to go out to eat with them on a Saturday night. W came to sit down next to me on the couch and Jake told her not to since she would have picked up a sweater full of Callie hair if she sat down. W said "I didn't want to sit next to you anyway, I wanted to sit next to Jess." Jake said "why, because she's pregnant?" W threw down her keys and said "NO YOU'RE NOT!" We both laughed and nodded our heads. K was sitting on the other side of the couch like "no way!" You would think after 5 years of marriage that this wouldn't be a surprise or seem like a joke to anyone, but apparently it is and does!
EE (minus 2): Jake and I were in Lex for a wedding shower. I had found a great idea on a website: line up for a picture and have the person taking the picture say "On the count of three, everybody say Jessica's pregnant" and then capture everyone's reaction while they process what the photographer just said. My friends and I lined up for the picture and Jake said it, but only AW repeated it. I started laughing. Jake said "no really, say Jessica's pregnant." All of my friends leaned to the middle and said "WHAT? REALLY?" I didn't think Jake got a very good picture, but with the exception of my face, the looks on my friends' faces are pretty priceless (see below). This was one of my favorite ones, and we spent the whole weekend excited about Monkey Butt and his or her aunts and uncles in waiting.
Jake held a conch shell to his ear and acted like he heard a baby to tell my Grandma. While we were discussing his sister's unfortunate recent experience with the nasty head bugs, he told his dad and stepmom that he hoped our kids didn't get lice. When he tried to drop a subtle hint to his brother about needing a babysitter in 10 months, his brother didn't register it at all, which made it pretty funny for everyone else in the room.
This isn't everyone we've told, but they are some of my favorite reactions so far. The people who were in complete shock really stuck with me the most and are the ones I know I'll remember. What's really funny is the nervous feeling I get right before I'm going to tell someone - as if they aren't going to be ecstatic that Jake and I are bringing a new life into the world. The more people we tell, the more excited I get. This could continue to be really fun for a while...
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