On The Way

I am extremely excited to announce that we are pregnant!

The due date is sometime in late July, and we are very excited. Its humbling to think that our creator has endowed us with this wonderful gift.

Reactions from various family members (both families):

• Carmélia (Nádya's mother): She did not believe it until she saw the paper from the test. She then promptly began to cry, and said congratulations. A little later, she said that she thinks its a boy, and has begun to call him Caleb. I still get confused when she refers to "him" by name. [Nyna's reaction was much the same.]
• Júnior (Nádya's brother) is in town for medical reasons. I wish you could have seen the expression on his face when we told him that he is going to be an uncle. It was like he had won the lottery, or something. He was quite overjoyed.
• We called my family Thanksgiving day to let them know. I was on the speakerphone, so I know a lot of people heard at once, but I am not sure exactly who all was there (this was right before we told Nádya's family). When I told them, I heard a collective gasp (!?!). Then the phone acted up, and I missed a couple of words my dad said. I then heard my mom reply, "And that means you are going to be a grandpa." [Happy birthday again, mom!]

Many of you are now wondering, no doubt, how this will affect our plans to get to the US. This has not really affected our plans to much. Since the due date is in July, we are thinking October might be a good time to move. That would give us some time to be with family here, and to get used to having a third personality in our family (It makes me giddy to say that!). It also lines up with the end of the year for the English course.

I hope you all had as good a Thanksgiving as we did. I will post more about what we did for Thanksgiving later today, or tomorrow.

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