Before we knew the gender of our baby, we would ask our 2 year old questions about the baby.
Mom: Are you going to have a baby brother or baby sister?
Hannah: baby sister
Mom: Are you going to have a baby sister or baby brother?
Hannah: baby brother
Mom: Baby boy or baby girl?
Hannah: baby girl
Mom: Baby girl or baby boy?
Hannah: baby boy
Mom: Baby Abbi or Baby Luke?
Hannah: baby Luke
Mom: Baby Luke or Baby Abbi
Hannah: Baby Abbi
Some students in another class found out that I was pregnant.
Boy Student 1: You have a baby in your tummy?
Me: Yes I do.
Boy Student 1: How did it get there?
Boy Student 2: That's easy.
Really? I couldn't wait to hear how easy it is to get pregnant.
Boy Student 2: All you have to do is eat a lot of food.
One day my feet were tired from standing and walking around so much so I brought a chair outside with me to sit on during my after school bus duty. One of the kindergarten boys said, "That's not fair. You get a chair." I said, "When you have a baby in your tummy you can sit in a chair." Then he said, "Hey, I can't get pregnant!" I said, "Oh, well." I am glad he knows enough to know that he'll never get pregnant.
I often tell my students when I am going to the doctor because I either won't be in class or have to leave early. The next day someone always asks, "Did the doctor take your baby out?" I tell them not yet, he just checked to make sure the baby was still okay.
Soon after I announced to my students that I was pregnant, one of my kindergartners drew this picture of me with the baby in my tummy.
This pregnancy is different than my last because I have a toddler at home, who has her own adorable and funny things to say about mommy being pregnant. I am still a teacher and though she is my daughter, I am her teacher too, because a parent is a child's first teacher.
At my 8 week appointment the ultra sound showed the baby was 8 weeks and 6 days old. Almost 9 weeks along! That's further ahead than I had originally thought. . . a very good sign :-)
