I'm apprehensive whenever Jennifer doesn't feel well. We went for a walk and she felt a little crampy. The rumblings turned out to be gas, but still, it freaks you out.

When she's in the bathroom longer than expected, I start to think that something's amiss. Maybe I'll move all the magazines out of the bathroom so that she won't have a reason to linger.

Mom's "fragile" description hits the nail on the head. I'm going to be glad when we've reached thwelve weeks and things become more solid. Right now it feels that we're vulnerable and there is nothing to do but let nature take its course.

We took the opportunity of our trip to DFW to let the immediate family know. I wonder how much it's going to leak out before we're ready to announce in a couple of weeks.

When we met up at Jfer's dad's with both her parents, Jfer casually showed off her new cell phone. It took rita almost half a minute before it dawned on her what Jfer's cell phone implied. Both of them were very excited and happy. i know it's going to be very hard for Rita having to keep mum about it. We also told Grandma Karl and Matthew, but hopefully that'll be it for a while.

Since we hardly ever visit with Hanka, we decided to tell her during our brunch. Hanka looks great -- pregnancy really suits her and although she's got the belly, you wouldn't be otherwise able to tell how far along she is. Jennifer announced her pregnancy by casually mentioning that their son is going to be three months older than our baby. The Shell's said they were suspecting something, with us visiting so many people over a weekend. It's going to be nice for our child to have two cousins of almost equal age -- hopefully we'll use this to visit more often.

I called my parents to chat and let them know that we're expecting. I'm still apprehensive about the whole thing and I told my mom thta we weren't making it generally public yet. She totally understood. I liked the word -- "fragile" -- she used to describe the early pregnancy. My mom said that they were very happy for us and had been hoping for news like that.

My parents were so cool about not pressuring us about kids. I know how much they enjoy Martina's children and how they wish us the best with what we do. But they never did the "so, are you pregnant yet?" thing.

I tried to call Martina but they weren't at home, so I'll try again at some later point.