Let's Start at the Beginning

We found out we were pregnant exactly one year ago on my birthday! To spare you the details, we had it all planned out and our plan worked perfectly. We had agreed during the difficult "two week wait" period that we would not tell a soul until the first trimester was over. Well that went out the window when the waiter at dinner that night wanted to know why I wasn't having a drink on my birthday and he pried until we told him. But other than that, we had to keep the hardest secret of our lives. During this time, we were able to enjoy our little huge secret and spend a lot of time talking about what was to come.

Eric and I had always wondered what our children would like since he is Asian and I am Caucasian. There was a lot of pressure for this baby to be really cute from friends, family, and co-workers. Not only really cute but smart too, since they would be half Asian. This was too much pressure for an unborn child!!! One Saturday night we were sitting at home (it had gotten too difficult to "fake drink" around our friends, although most were clueless) and decided to "order" the characteristics we wanted in our child. *A friend had done this and swore it worked. We assumed our child would look more like Eric because his dark features would probably be dominant, we could only hope this baby would have blue eyes by some miracle from God. We actually wrote down a list that looked something like this:

eye shape-Eric

eye color- Becca

nose-Becca

mouth- Eric

hair color- Eric

hair texture- Becca

feet- Becca

toes- Eric

Now all we had to do was wait...9 months.