I wrestled with the thought of running back into our room to announce the news. I could hear the girls all giggling as they played games on my iPhone. Robert was still snoring. Instead, I quietly walked in and sat at my desk. I pulled down the book of names, where I had jotted down our previous name choices when we found out we were pregnant with each of our girls. I started to browse through the girl names again.
It was like a flashback to another Christmas 6 years ago. Robert and I found out that we were going to have our first baby. We kept it a secret from our families for a week and surprised them all on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Now, here we are, another Christmas surprise waiting to be announced. Seeing that this is going to be the last baby in our growing family, I thought it would be most fitting to have a replay of that special Christmas. This time, it meant keeping it a secret from Robert too.
I'm not very good at keeping secrets from Robert though. I tell him EVERYTHING! So, I was only able to keep the news to myself for a week. Besides, he seemed to have some sort of "Preggie Radar". He kept throwing out "baby" comments all week, and I did all I could to bite my tongue and not say anything back that might give my secret away. Well, it turned out that he had known that same weekend! Of course I had to take a picture of my pregnancy test result, which was what he saw while searching for a picture of the girls on my iPhone.
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