Half of my heart

Why me?

Brad is sitting up in bed and I'm laying next to him. Bri is laying next to me with her eyes glued on the TV watching the show we have on for her. It's the first week since Friends ended and instead of doing anything fun together we're stuck here laying in bed because of my morning sickness and Bri's little cold. Luckily all she has is a cough and runny nose, but whatever I do to get rid of mine doesn't work. I've looked up all kinds of different cures and tried them all, but I still wake up feeling like I'm dying and like I can't eat anything.

I slowly sit up not wanting to distract Bri and climb over Brad's legs getting out of bed. I run to the bathroom and lean over the toilet heaving and emptying my stomach. Brad walks in following me and holds my hair back until I'm finally done. I flush the toilet and lay against him on the floor just to make sure I'm better. It's not too long until I feel sick again, but this time it isn't as bad and I finally start to feel better.

"Here wash out your mouth." Brad says handing me a cup of water. I do so and spit it back out into the toilet then lay back with him to relax. It's only then that I notice Bri isn't with us.

"Where's Bri?"

"Watching her show." He rubs my back comforting me and lays his other hand on my stomach that now has a slight, but noticeable bump putting his hand under my shirt "Just relax, she's fine."

Just as he says that I hear the sound of her running into the bathroom to find us. She walks up to me and sits down "Mama sick?" She asks worried.

I sit her on my lap and rub her head a little "Yeah, but I'll be better soon." I lean back closer to Brad and she starts crawling around on us laughing. She rests her head on my belly when she's done using it as a small pillow. I know she doesn't know about the baby yet, but it's like she knows something is different. She stands on my legs and wraps her arms around my neck so she's level with my face "Better now?" I can't help but smile at her cuteness.

"I am." I sit her back down on my lap and Brad wraps his arms around both of us. Right now I should be making us breakfast or playing with Bri downstairs, but being sick really ruins my plans.

I hear someone yelling our names walking upstairs and recognize that it's my dad from his voice. Bri jumps out of my arms and just as he walks into the bathroom to find us she runs over jumping up at him.

He quickly picks her up "Hi sweetie." He smiles continuing holding her then looking at Brad and I "Should I even ask what's going on?"

"Mama sick!" Bri answers him quickly.

I pull myself up and walks over to him hugging him "Hi, dad."

"Should I stay away from you?" He asks jokingly "I don't wanna get sick."

Brad gets up taking Bri from him "No, actually she's the one you should stay away from. Jen just has morning sickness."

He just nods and we all go downstairs to eat. Bri is fascinated by my dad who keeps playing with her and making funny faces trying to get her to eat and I stand watching them. I love the bond they have and he loves her so much. She doesn't even eat for most people but he gets her to eat all her breakfast and let's me clean off her face and hands.

"We play?" She asks my dad pulling him by his hand towards the living room. He follows and sits on the floor across from her where they play with her toys and animals. Brad and I follow them and sit on the couch watching them.

"Where's Sherry?" I ask my dad. She normally comes with him.

"Home sleeping." I look at him like he's crazy, and he laughs at me responding "We don't have a one year old, we could sleep until noon if we wanted to."

"Can we switch places? Just for a weekend?" Brad asks him.

He thinks for a while before picking up Bri along with some of her toys "If you get her some clothes we'll keep her for a day or two, but if she wakes us before 6 you're getting her back."

"Deal." I say getting up and grabbing some of her clothes and everything else she'll need.

Brad puts her in her car seat and we say bye to both of them as they leave. She's excited to spend time with her grandparents and won't stop asking my dad about what they can do. He has a look on his face if excitement and a little terror mixed knowing that he's in for a long weekend.

(I don't like doing this, but instead of making it another part that's really short, I'm going to add how they announce Jen is pregnant into this part.)

Today is the day that we announce I'm pregnant again, and we're using Bri's excitement and cuteness. We just told her yesterday after we found out its a boy and she's been running around saying she wants her little brother.

"Bri, can you come here please?" I yell out to her where she's playing at her fake kitchen "We need your help with something."

She runs in the living room to Brad and I and sits on the couch with us "What?"

"Well, do you want to help us tell everyone else about your little brother?" Brad asks her. She gets excited right away and says yes.

I move over a little so I'm not right next to Brad and we have her stand in the middle. We tell her what she needs to do and she starts playing until we say we're ready. I get my phone out and turn the camera on to record and hold it up.

"Bri, where's mommy?" Brad asks her and she runs right over to me and climbs on my lap. I tell her good job and then we ask her another question.

"Where's daddy?" I ask her and she crawls over so she's on Brads lap. She sits there playing with him a few seconds until he asks her the most important question.

"Can you tell me where your little brother is?"

She points to me "Mommy's belly."

"Good job, sweetie!" I tell her and she comes back over to me hugging my belly.

I stop recording and we edit the video a little to make sure it isn't too long, then come up with something to post along with it. Brad finally comes up with one we both like and we post it on our accounts.

"Where is everybody?!? #Surpise." (Kinda crappy, I know.)

We sit on the couch next to each other watching Bri play with the baby we got her. It's hard to believe she's going to be 2 in a few weeks and then soon after that we're going to be starting all over with a new baby.