Future stroller club member

When I found out I was pregnant in early August, my good friend Paige was entering her second trimester and another friend, LeAnn, was due to give birth to her daughter at the end of the month. I had no idea what I was getting into and was lucky enough to have both of these wonderful friends a phone call away to answer really embarrassing questions and let me know that, yes, it’s completely normal for your body to do that during pregnancy.

It was a huge bonus being able to go through pregnancy with a friend. Paige & I indulged in mint chocolate chip ice cream and sour balls, socialized with O’Douls and sparkling cider, made fun of everyone else in our water yoga class and took lots of walks where the only things we would discuss were impending-labor, our fat ankles and how cute our babies are going to be. It was also a great advantage being three months behind Paige, to watch her belly grow, to hear about her labor and childbirth experience and, of course, to mooch off all of her cute maternity clothes now that she’s skinny again.

Unlike Chris & I, Paige and her husband, Danny, were able to wait until the birth to find out the sex of their baby. Paige was convinced it was a boy, and when I found out Baby Amys was a girl, we were pretty certain Baby Scully was going to be wearing blue. I was carrying high, Paige was carrying low. I had morning sickness, Paige didn’t. My baby’s heartrate was high, Paige’s baby’s was low. We were all pretty surprised when Miss Elliot JoAnn Scully made her debut, and when Danny sent the It’s a girl! announcement my heart fluttered with excitement. Pink tutus, pigtails and princesses… this is going to be so much fun!

It has been amazing to watch Rell and Elliot grow in the past months, and if I am blessed with a baby half as sweet and beautiful as both LeAnn and Paige’s girls then I will be over the moon. I’m really looking forward to watching our three divas grow up together. I’m already picturing future birthday parties – Rell’s at the pool, Elliot’s at the skate palace and Baby Amys with the bouncing castle and pony rides. And, as the picture shows, Elliot’s already pretty jealous about the pony thing. Sorry, Elliot, we’ll have fun doing the limbo at your party… Spring birthdays RULE!