It's a baby!

We're REALLY having a baby! Yesterday we had our first doctors appointment and we have our first official pictures of baby!  We heard and saw the heart beat and the doctor told us that things are looking great.  This was exactly what we wanted to hear. She sat with us for close to an hour, answered all our questions and made us feel so good. We celebrated the news (and Daddy's birthday) at Sushi Hai after the appointment.  It was a terrific night!

The whole family now knows the news- we told Aunt Deb over Skype on Mother's Day after asking her if she had an old crib we could have.  She looked at us with raised eyebrows and asked why we would need a crib?? Our huge smiles gave us away! Daniel's parents found three weeks ago over Skype.  We asked Margy if she could weave baby blankets on her new loom?  She didn't skip a beat and squealed with delight!! We love that our family can now share in the excitement (and secret) for the next four weeks.

Baby is the size of a  large raspberry!

Introducing, Grandma Gigi!

It was a weekend of big reveals in the Hillman household this weekend.  Uncle Lex found out on Friday night, Papa Poo Poo Head found on on Saturday and finally Grandma Gigi found out on Sunday night.  We had intended to wait one more week and tell her on Mother's Day but knowing that we had to spend an evening with her celebrating our birthdays, and not tell her, seemed impossible.  So we scratched our Mother's Day plan and concocted a new one that evening.  The hardest part was we had to wait all the way through cooking dinner, all the way through eating dinner and all the way through looking at every page of our 100 page Hawaii Honeymoon album before she learned the news!

I made a sign that read, "Guess what mom?! We're having a baby! 12-23-13" and taped it to the last page of the photo book. She about died when she read it and I'm so glad we go it on camera.  Priceless...love you mama.

~Mama Jess

Introducing, Papa Poo Poo Head!

This weekend we had our Birthday Brew-au Luau.  Dad came in earlier in the day to help us get ready.  We had Rusty's Hawaiian wild boar to prepare, tiki torches to light, real Hawaiian flowers to arrange and fake alcoholic drinks to make!  We planned to tell dad before the party but as time got closer to the start of the party and we still had things to do, we were cutting things close.  We knew we wanted to tell him while Lex was taking our picture and so we quickly headed out front to snap a few family pictures.  They started out innocently enough...

 During the pictures I casually asked dad...

JGH- Hey dad, what do you want to be called when you're a grandpa?










DSG- Poo Poo Head!
JGH- You sure about that?
DSG- Yeah! Poo Poo Head!
JGH- Is that what it's going to be?
DSG- I don't know.  Why are you asking me anyway?  Have a baby first!

And that's when he finally realized that we were trying to tell him that we were having a baby! Everyone, meet Papa Poo Poo Head!