Telling our friends

I had the great idea of using cookie cakes to tell all of my big groups of friends. We were going to have a cookie cake to tell my work friends, a cookie cake to tell my church friends, and a cookie cake to tell my college friends. The genius behind this plan is that I got to have 3 cookie cakes!!!
I brought the first cookie cake to the work Superbowl party on Superbowl Sunday. I was the most nervous about telling my work friends. No one else really has anything invested in whether or not you are pregnant. People at work are impacted by your pregnancy, so I was a little nervous about their reactions.
Pam Waber was the first one to open the cookie cake. She seemed confused at first and then asked someone nearby who it was who was pregnant. Of course no one else knew either, but then they realized that my last name was on the cake. Pam very discretely came over and asked me if I had something to share. The news exploded from there. Everyone was very excited for me and Jordan and reacted completely appropriately. Turns out there was no reason to be nervous at all!
One funny thing about telling people at work. Before dessert time at the party, our fellow, Pavel, asked me what I was drinking (there is usually a variety of alcohol at the party, and my drink was in a plastic cup so that it couldn't be identified). I told him I was drinking sprite. He jokingly said, "why, are you pregnant?" To which I replied, "yes." He didn't have much to say after that until the news was broken to everyone else.
We brought a cookie cake to choir when we were hosting choir fellowship. Because there had been a little bit of confusion about who exactly was pregnant with the first cake, we decided to make an announcement after rehearsal was over. Again, everyone was very excited for us. I hear ours is the first baby that has been born to someone actively in the choir in 30 years.
We hosted supper club at our house when I was pregnant enough that I though someone might guess the news. I wanted one of those pregnancy shirts that says, "what's kicking" or something. The only thing I could find in the time I had was one that said "I crave pickles." When I put it on, it fit really well and made me look even more pregnant, so I was sure that if I wore that, someone in supper club would figure it out. I'm not sure exactly how it happened at supper club. Someone put it all together before everyone had arrived and then everyone else got to discover it as they showed up.
All in all, it was a whole lot of fun. When I went to my OB visit after all of this, she said, "have you really gained 10 pounds since your last visit?!" I didn't realize I had and it was the first 10 pounds for me to gain in the whole pregnancy, but I'm not surprised in happened in the month when I had three cookie cakes!